Chairmen

Lord Charles Bruce, 1889–96

Thomas Threlfall, 1897–1907

Sir William Bigge, 1907–16

Ernest Mathews CVO, 1917–28

Raymond Ffennell, 1928–38

(From 1939 to 1983 there was no independent Chairman; instead the post rotated annually between the Director of the RCM and the Principal of the RAM.)

Sir Brian Young, 1984–7

Sir John Burgh, 1987–94

Sir Peter Marychurch, 1994–2000

Sir John Baker, 2000–2006

Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, 2006–

Secretaries

George Watson, 1889–96

Samuel Aitken, 1896–1900 (Hon. Sec.)

James Muir, 1900–1933

Hilary Macklin, 1934–62

William Cole, 1962–74

Philip Cranmer, 1974–83

Chief Executives

Ronald Smith, 1983–92

Richard Morris, 1993–2009

Guy Perricone, 2010–

Principals of the RAM

Sir Alexander Mackenzie, 1888

Sir John B. McEwen, 1924

Sir Stanley Marchant, 1936

Reginald Thatcher, 1949

Sir Thomas Armstrong, 1955

Sir Anthony Lewis, 1968

Sir David Lumsden, 1982

Lynn Harrell, 1993

Sir Curtis Price, 1995

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, 2008

Directors of the RCM

Sir George Grove, 1883

Sir Hubert Parry, 1895

Sir Hugh Allen, 1919

Sir George Dyson, 1938

Sir Ernest Bullock, 1953

Sir Keith Falkner, 1960

Sir David Willcocks, 1974

Michael Gough Matthews, 1985

Dame Janet Ritterman, 1993

Colin Lawson, 2005

Directors of the RNCM (following 1985 Reconstitution)

Sir John Manduell, 1971

Edward Gregson, 1996

Jonty Stockdale, 2008

Directors of the RSAMD [now RCS] (following 1985 Reconstitution)

Sir Philip Ledger, 1982

John Wallace, 2002