Presidents of the Society
- 1836-39 John Lee
- 1839-41 Edward Hawkins
- 1841-43 H.H. Wilson
- 1843-45 Lord Albert Conyngham
- 1845-47 H.H. Wilson
- 1847-49 W.D. Haggard
- 1849-51 Edward Hawkins
- 1851-55 The Lord Londesborough (Formerly Lord Albert Conyngham, President 1843-45)
- 1855-74 W.S.W. Vaux
- 1874-1908 Sir John Evans
- 1908-14 Sir Henry H. Howarth
- 1914-19 Sir Arthur Evans
- 1919-30 Sir Charles Oman
- 1930-35 Percy Webb
- 1935-36 Sir George MacDonald
- 1936-37 Percy Webb
- 1937-42 E.A. Sydenham
- 1942-48 Harold Mattingly
- 1948-53 C.H.V. Sutherland
- 1953-56 Michael Grant
- 1956-61 C.E. Blunt
- 1961-66 Philip Grierson
- 1966-70 D.F.Allen
- 1970-74 Colin M. Kraay
- 1974-79 R.A.G. Carson
- 1979-84 D.G. Sellwood
- 1984-89 J.P.C. Kent
- 1989-94 T.V. Buttrey
- 1994-99 D.M. Metcalf
- 1999-2004 H.B. Mattingly
- 2005-2009 Joe Cribb
- 2009-present Nicholas Mayhew