Editing Romanes Lecture (section)

===1940s===

* 1940 [[Édouard Herriot]], lecture not delivered
* 1941 [[William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey|William Hailey]] — ''The position of colonies in a British commonwealth of nations''
* 1942 [[Norman H. Baynes]] — ''Intellectual liberty and totalitarian claims''
* 1943 [[Julian Huxley]] — ''Evolutionary Ethics'' (<small>50 years after his [[Thomas Henry Huxley|grandfather]] gave the lecture</small>)
* 1944 [[G. M. Young]] — ''Mr Gladstone''
* 1945 [[André Siegfried]] — ''Characteristics and Limits of our Western Civilization''
* 1946 [[John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley|John Anderson]] — ''The machinery of government''
* 1947 [[Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel|Lord Samuel]] — ''Creative Man''
* 1948 [[John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara|Lord Brabazon of Tara]] — ''Forty years of flight''
* 1949 [[Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster|Claud Schuster]] — ''Mountaineering''