Office-Bearers

James Boswell in dress of Corsican chief
by John Sebastian Miller, after Samuel Wale, engraving 1769
NPG D5416
(CC licence)

President: Joan Boswell, LRAM, BA

Chairman: † David R. Boswell, PDS, LDS, BSc

Treasurer: Richard Davies

Secretary: Rosemary Boswell

Past Presidents

2018–2019: Dr Ralph McLean

2017–2018: Prof. Christopher Whatley

2016–2017: Dr Susan Rennie

2015–2016: Mark McLean

2014–2015: Dane Love

2013–2014: Derek Walker

2012–2013: Paul Buttle

2011–2012: Sir David Edward

2010–2011: Dr Ann Silver

2009–2010: Hugh M. Milne

2008–2009: Robert Boswell Younger of Auchinleck

2007–2008: Dr Peter Martin

2006–2007: Prof. David Nokes

2005–2006: Adam Sisman

2001–2002: Prof. Murray Pittock

2000–2001: Prof. David Purdie

1999–2000: Mr W. Hardie

1998–1999: Kenneth Roy

1997–1998: Dr David Marcus

1996–1997: Dr Ian McGowen

1995–1996: Lord Ross

1994–1995: Prof. Thomas Devine

1993–1994: Lady Dunpark

1992–1993: Alan Bold

1991–1992: Lord Prosser

1990–1991: Robert Moody

1989–1990: Raymond Morris Fraser, Advocate

1988–1989: Dr John Strawhorn

1987–1988: Prof. David Daiches

1986–1987: Dr Irma S. Lustig

1985–1986: Roger Craik, QC

1984–1985: Mary Hyde, Viscountess Eccles

1983–1984: James Boswell of Auchinleck

1982–1983: Dr Nicholas Phillipson

1981–1982: David Buchanan

1980–1981: Harry Arthur Boswell of Balmuto

1979–1980: Sheriff Neil Gow, QC

1978–1979: Albert Boswell

1977–1978: James H. Leicester

1976–1977: James Irvine Fortescue

1975–1976: David R. Boswell

1974–1975: Brig. Gen. James G. Boswell

1973–1974: Sheila Boswell

1972–1973: Patricia S. Boswell