History
The Presidency of the Association usually lasts for one year and a new President is appointed at each Annual General Meeting.
Past Presidents of the Association
2023 Lord Lee of Trafford
2022 The Rt Hon The Lord McNally of Blackpool
2020/21 Alderman Dr Sir Andrew Parmley
2018/19 Dr Johnny Ball, TV and entertainment
2016/17 Mr Adrian Waddingham CBE
2014/15 Sir Paul Clarke KCVO, Clerk to the Duchy
2013 Mrs Pamela Filer MBE, Pioneer Victim Support
2012 Hon Dame Jill Black DBE, Lady Justice of Appeal
2011 Sir David Bean QC, later Lord Justice of Appeal
2010 JRL Nuttall. Greenwich University
2009 Sir Brian Smith CBE
2008 The Hon Sir Richard McCombe QC, later Lord Justice of Appeal
2006/7 Denis E. Filer CBE TD F. Eng, engineer
2005 Dr Alan Hayes CBE FRSC
2004 Sir France Kennedy KCMG CBE, First Chancellor University of Central Lancashire
2003 Rowland S Young
2001/2 Lord Taylor of Blackburn FCBE JPDL LLD, politician Co-Founder Lancaster University
2000 Sir Michael Ridley KCVO, clerk to the Duchy
1999 Air Vice-Marshall George Lamb CB CBE AFC, known as Larry, pilot in the Berlin airlift
1998 The Rt Hon Lord Hacking, barrister and arbitrator
1997 The Right Hon the Lord Shuttleworth, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
1996 Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, Trade Unionist
1995 Thomas P Frost, banker
1994 Robert B Dunn, F. Eng
1993 Sir Brian Smith CBE, Chairman ICI
1992 Sir William Barlow F. Eng, engineer
1991 Rt Hon Frank Cooper PC GCB CMG Permanent Secretary MOD Director
1990 2nd Lord Clitheroe DL. Chemical Industry, Banking
1988-89 Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin KBE CB, electrical engineer and Past President IEE
1987-88 His Hon Judge Thomas Pigot QC, Common Serjeant
1986-87 The 6th Lord Shuttleworth, surveyor, Burnley and National & Provincial Building Societies
1985-86 His Hon Judge J S R Abdela TD QC, Old Bailey judge
1984-85 Miss Thora Hird OBE, later Dame Thora Hird DBE, comedienne and actress
1983-84 Sir William Barlow F. Eng President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
1982-83 Col Sir Eric St Johnston CBE QPM, Chief Constable of Lancashire, Inspector of Constabulary
1981-82 Dame Rose Heilbron DBE, judge, Family Division
1980-81 Sir John Tilney TD JP, Former MP, Minister, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
1979-80 Herbert Butler, Burnley Building Society
1978-79 Hon Donald Kershaw JP, Marie Curie Foundation
1977-78 The Hon Sir Joseph Cantley OBE, judge
1976-77 Lord Stokes TD DL, British Leyland
1975-76 Sir Desmond Heap, Comptroller and City solicitor
1974-75 Sir Geoffrey Jackson, Ambassador to Uruguay
1973-74 Eric Cheadle CBE (later Sir Eric Cheadle)
1972-73 Lord Robens PC
1971-72 Hon David Hacking (Succeeded as 3rd Lord Hacking while President), Barrister and US Attorney
1970-71 Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dr R W Stopford, Bishop of London, Dean of Chapels Royal, Bishop of Bermuda
1969-70 Sir John Peel KCVO, Queen’s Gynaecologist
1968-69 Leslie Lever later Lord Lever of Ardwick, solicitor and Lord Mayor of Manchester
1967-68 The 2nd Lord Hacking, solicitor
1966-67 Sir Douglas Glover TD, MP for Ormskirk
1965-66 Sir Milner Holland KCVO QC Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster
1964-65 Lord Robens PC, Chairman National Coal Board
1963-64 1st Lord Clitheroe PC KCVO DL, Ralph Assheton Former MP and Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
1962-63 Sir Robert Burrows KBE, coal, insurance, banking
1961-62 Eric Cheadle, Newspapers
1960-61 Hon Lord Justice Seller MC, Lord Justice of Appeal
1959-60 Major Sir Brunel Cohen KBE, former MP Liverpool
1958-59 Jack Hylton, Impresario
1957-58 Lord Justice Ormerod PC, Lord Justice of Appeal
1956-57 Lord Kershaw OBE JP. Marie Curie Foundation
1955-56 2nd Lord Hacking, solicitor
1954-55 18th Earl of Derby, Constable of Lancaster Castle
1951-54 Lord Woolton PC CH DL, Lewis’s Investment Trust Chancellor of the Duchy, Minister for Food in WWII
1950-51 Sir Alfred Wood, Sugar beet pioneer.
1950 Lord Hacking PC OBE DL JP, former MP for Chorley
1948-49 Rt Hon Sir Norman Birkett PC. Created Lord Birkett of Ulverston, Advocate Lord Justice of Appeal
1938-39 Sir Frank Bowater Bart GBE DSO TD, Lord Mayor of London and grandfather of current Sheriff Alderman William Russell and actor Damien Lewis
1937-38 The Hon Mr Justice Atkinson (Sir Cyril Atkinson), Former MP for Altrincham
1935-37 Lord Hewart of Bury
1934-35 Major Sir William Prescott (later Bart), former MP Barrister and Chairman Metropolitan Water Board
1933-34 The 7th Earl of Sefton, Constable Lancaster Castle Lord Mayor of Liverpool
1931-33 Hon Lord Stanley MP PC MC DL. Cabinet Minister
1930-31 2nd Viscount Leverhulme, Lever Brothers
1928-30 The Hon Mr Justice Swift (Sir Rigby Swift) Former MP, King’s Bench and Recorder of Wigan
1927-28 17th Earl of Derby
1925-26 Lord Colwyn PC Former MP, textiles and rubber
1923-25 Rt Hon Gordon Hewart PC, later Viscount Hewart of Bury, Lord Chief Justice
1922-23 Sir James Patron, Former Mayor of Southport
1921-22 Lt Col Sir Henry Grayson Bart, Shipping (first to record his Presidency in Who’s Who)
1919-21 Col. Thomas Openshaw FRCS CB CMG, Army Surgeon who investigated Jack the Ripper
1917-19 Sir Edward Holden Bart, Former MP for Haywood
1916-17 Sir William Dunn Bart, MP, Lord Mayor of London
1915-16 Sir Charles Wakefield later Viscount. Wakefield, Lord Mayor. Wakefield Gold Trophy for speed.
1914-15 Sir Charles Johnston, Lord Mayor of London
1913-14 Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, Bart, Paper maker and Lord Mayor of London
1912-13 The Hon Arthur Stanley MP, Diplomat Red Cross
1911-12 Lord Shuttleworth PC, Former Chancellor of Duchy
1910-11 17th Earl of Derby KG PC GCB GCVO, Cabinet Minister and Ambassador to France
1909-10 Sir Henry Holland MP, later Lord Rotherham
1908-09 The Hon Sir Joseph Walton QC, Recorder of Wigan
1907-08 Sir William Lever MP, later Lord Leverhulme
1906-07 Rt Hon Alfred Emmott PC MP, Cabinet Minister
1905-06 Octavius Leigh-Clare KC MP, Vice Chancellor of the Duchy
1904-05 2nd Earl of Lathom
1903-04 The Rt Hon Lord Stanley MP (later Earl of Derby)
1902-03 Sir Joseph Lawrence MP
1901-02 Sir John Bigham KC (Viscount Mersey), President Probate, Divorce Admiralty Division
1900-01 Sir Joseph Lawrence MP Manchester Ship Canal
1900 Sir W H Houldsworth Bart, Manchester MP
1899 16th Earl of Derby PC GCB Governor General of Canada
1894-98 1st Earl of Lathom PC GCB 2nd Lord Skelmersdale, Lord Chamberlain
1892-93 Samuel Pope QC, Recorder of Bolton