1941 Ernest Sheppard Pinfold
1942 William Sawney Bisat
1943 Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
1944 Norman Ross Junner
1945 Leonard Frank Spath
1946 Robert Heron Rastall
1947 Stanley Smith
1948 Arthur Hubert Cox
1949 William Jocelyn Arkell
1950 Samuel James Shand
1951 William Dixon West
1952 Alfred Kingsley Wells
1953 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
1954 John Baird Simpson
1955 Wilfred Norman Edwards
1956 Leslie Reginald Cox
1957 Stephen Henry Straw
1958 Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood
1959 David Williams
1960 Doris Livesey Reynolds
1961 John Vernon Harrison
1962 Lawrence Rickard Wager
1963 Thomas Neville George
1964 Dorothy Hill
1965 Charles Findlay Davidson
1966 Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff
1967 William Quarrier Kennedy
1968 Maurice Black
1969 Francis John Turner
1970 Frederick Henry Stewart
1971 Percival Allen
1972 Alec Westley Skempton
1973 Janet Vida Watson
1974 Martin Fritz Glaessner
1975 Dorothy Helen Rayner
1976 Walter Brian Harland
1977 Bernard Elgey Leake
1978 Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst
1979 Derek Victor Ager
1980 John Robert Lawrence Allen
1981 William Stuart McKerrow
1982 George Patrick Leonard Walker
1983 John Frederick Dewey
1984 Douglas James Shearman
1985 John Douglas Hudson
1986 Harry Blackmore Whittington
1987 Nicholas John Shackleton
1988 Richard Gilbert West
1989 Jake Hancock
1990 Anthony Hallam
1991 John Imbrie
1992 Alfred G Fischer
1993 Michael Robert Leeder
1994 William Gilbert Chaloner
1995 Robert Keith O'Nions
1996 Richard Allen Fortey
1997 Richard Barrie Rickards
1998 Simon Conway Morris
1999 Ernest Henry Rutter
2000 Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs
2001 Paul Tapponnier
2002 Andrew Smith
2003 Harry Elderfield
2004 Dianne Edwards
2005 Michael James Benton
2006 Geoffrey Boulton
2007 Philip Allen
2008 Alan Gilbert Smith
2009 I Nick McCave
2010 William F Ruddiman
2011 Christopher Paola
2012 Eric Wolff
2013 Paula Reimer
2014 Martin Brasier
2015 Colin Ballantyne
2016 John Underhill