Editing Society for Psychical Research (section)

== Presidents ==

The following is a list of presidents:

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|1882–84 &nbsp; || [[Henry Sidgwick]] (1838–1900), Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge; Philosopher and Economist
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|1885–87  || [[Balfour Stewart]] (1827–1887), Professor, Owens College, Manchester; Physicist
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|1888–92 &nbsp; || [[Henry Sidgwick]] (→ 1882), Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge; Philosopher and Economist
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|1893 ||[[Arthur Balfour]] KG, OM, PC, DL (1848–1930), Politician, later Prime Minister; known for the Balfour Declaration
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|1894–95 ||[[William James]] (1842–1910) Professor, Harvard University; American Psychologist and Philosopher
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|1896–99 ||Sir [[William Crookes]] (1832–1919), Physical Chemist; discovered the element Thallium, invented the [[Crookes tube]]
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|1900 ||[[Frederic W. H. Myers]] (1843–1901), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Classicist and Philosopher
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|1901–03 ||Sir [[Oliver Lodge]] (1851–1940), Professor, University College, Liverpool; Physicist; developer of wireless telegraphy
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|1904 ||[[William F. Barrett]] FRS (1845–1926), Professor, Royal College of Science, Dublin; Experimental Physicist
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|1905 ||[[Charles Richet]] (1850–1935), Professor, Collège de France, Paris; French Physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology 1913
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|1906–07 ||[[Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour|Gerald Balfour]] (1853–1945), Politician, brother of Arthur Balfour; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
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|1908–09 ||[[Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick]] (1845–1936), Principal, Newnham College, Cambridge; Physicist
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|1910 ||Henry Arthur Smith (1848–1922), Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, London; Lawyer and author of legal treatises
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|1911 ||[[Andrew Lang]] (1844–1912), Fellow, Merton College, Oxford; Classicist and writer on folklore, mythology, and religion
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|1912 ||[[William Boyd Carpenter]] KCVO (1841–1918), Pastoral Lecturer, Theology, Cambridge; Bishop of Ripon
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|1913 ||[[Henri Bergson]] (1859–1941) Professor, Collège de France, Paris; Chair of Modern Philosophy; Nobel Prize, Literature 1927
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|1914 ||[[F. C. S. Schiller]] (1864–1937), Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Philosopher
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|1915–16 ||[[Gilbert Murray]] (1866–1957), Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford; Classicist
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|1917–18 ||[[L. P. Jacks|Lawrence Pearsall Jacks]] (1860–1955), Professor, Manchester College, Oxford; Philosopher and Theologian 
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|1919 || [[John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh]] OM, PRS (1842–1919), Cavendish Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge; Physicist, Nobel Prize, Physics 1904
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|1920–21 ||[[William McDougall (psychologist)|William McDougall]] FRS (1871–1938), Professor, Duke University; Psychologist, founder J B Rhine Parapsychology Lab
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|1922 ||[[Thomas Walker Mitchell]] (1869–1944), Physician and Psychologist, Publisher of the ''British Journal of Medical Psychology'' 1920–35
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|1923 ||[[Camille Flammarion]] (1842–1925), founder and first president of the Société Astronomique de France, author of popular science and science fiction works
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|1924–25 ||John George Piddington (1869–1952), Businessman, John George Smith & Co., London
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|1926–27 ||[[Hans Driesch]] (1867–1941), Professor, Universitaet Leipzig; German Biologist and Natural Philosopher, performed first animal cloning 1885
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|1928–29 ||Sir Lawrence Evelyn Jones (1885–1955) Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford; Author
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|1930–31 ||[[Walter Franklin Prince]] (1863–1934), Clergyman
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|1932 ||[[Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick]] (→ 1908) and [[Oliver Joseph Lodge|Oliver Lodge]] (→ 1901)
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|1933–34 ||[[Edith Lyttelton]] (born as Edith Balfour; 1865–1948), Writer
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|1935–36 ||[[C. D. Broad]] (1887–1971), Philosopher
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|1937–38 ||[[Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh]] (1875–1947), Physicist
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|1939–41 ||[[H. H. Price]] (1899–1984), Philosopher
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|1942–44 ||[[Robert Henry Thouless]] (1894–1984), Psychologist 
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|1945–46 ||[[George Nugent Merle Tyrrell]] (1879–1952), Mathematician
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|1947–48 ||[[William Henry Salter]] (1880–1969), Lawyer
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|1949 ||[[Gardner Murphy]] (1895–1979), Director of Research, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas; Psychologist
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|1950–51 ||[[Samuel Soal]] (1889–1975), Mathematician
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|1952 ||[[Gilbert Murray]] (→ 1915)
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|1953–55 ||[[F. J. M. Stratton]] (1881–1960), Astrophysicist, Professor in Cambridge University
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|1956–58 ||[[Guy William Lambert]] (1889–1984), Diplomat
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|1958–60 ||[[C. D. Broad]] (→ 1935)
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|1960–61 ||[[H. H. Price]] (→ 1939)
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|1960–63 ||[[E. R. Dodds]] (1893–1979), Hellenist, Professor in Birmingham and Oxford
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|1963–65 ||[[Donald J. West]] (1924 - 2020), Psychiatrist and criminologist
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|1965–69 ||Sir [[Alister Hardy]] (1896–1985), Zoologist
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|1969–71 ||[[W. A. H. Rushton]] (1901–1980), Physiologist, Professor in Cambridge
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|1971–74 ||[[Clement Mundle]] (1916–1989), Philosopher
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|1974–76 ||[[John Beloff]] (1920–2006), Psychologist at the University of Edinburgh
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|1976–79 ||Arthur J. Ellison (1920–2000), Engineer
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|1980 ||[[Joseph Banks Rhine]] (1895–1980), Biologist and Parapsychologist
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|1980 ||[[Louisa Ella Rhine]] (1891–1983), Parapsychologist, wife of Joseph Rhine
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|1981–83 ||Arthur J. Ellison (→ 1976)
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|1984–88 ||[[Donald J. West]] (→ 1963)
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|1988–89 || [[Ian Stevenson]] (1918–2007), Psychiatrist
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|1992–93 ||[[Alan Gauld]] (b. 1932), Psychologist
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|1993–95 ||[[Archie Roy]] (1924–2012), Professor of Astronomy in Glasgow, founded the Scottish SPR in 1987 
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|1995–98 ||[[David Fontana]] (1934–2010), Professor of Psychology in Cardiff
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|1998–99 || [[Donald J. West]] (→ 1963, → 1984)
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|2000–04 || [[Bernard Carr]], Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in London
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|2004–07 ||John Poynton, Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Natal
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|2007–11 ||[[Deborah Delanoy]], Parapsychologist
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|2011–15 ||Richard S. Broughton, senior lecturer in psychology at The University of Northampton
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|2015–18 ||John Poynton (→2004) 
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|2018–21 ||Chris Roe, Professor of Psychology, University of Northampton
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|2021– ||Adrian Parker, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Gothenburg
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