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===Past presidents===
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Since 1799, the Royal Institution has had fifteen presidents and one acting president.<ref>[http://www.rigb.org/our-history/people/officers-and-staff Key officers and staff of the Royal Institution since 1799], Royal Institution website, accessed 29 December 2014</ref>
*1799 – [[George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea]]
*1813 – [[George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer]]
*1825 – [[Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester]]
*1827 – [[Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th Duke of Somerset]]
*1842 – [[Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland]]
*1865 – [[Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet]]
*1873 – [[Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland]]
*1899 – [[Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland]]
*1918 – [[Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland]]
*1930 – [[Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle|Lord Eustace Percy]], raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle in 1953
*1945 – [[Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh]]
*1948 – [[John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara]]
*1963 – [[Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck]]
*1968 – [[William Wellclose Davis]] (acting)
*1969 – [[Harold Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton]]
*1976 – [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent]]
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