was founded in 1902. Dates shown are for election or installation.
| Name
| Life
| Date
| Notes
|
| Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar
| 1832-1914
| 1902
|
|
| Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
| 1833-1913
| 1902
|
|
| Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener
| 1850-1916
| 1902
| Later Earl Kitchener
|
| John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
| 1842-1919
| 1902
|
|
| William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
| 1824-1907
| 1902
|
|
| Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
| 1827-1912
| 1902
|
|
| Henry Keppel
| 1809-1904
| 1902
|
|
| John Morley
| 1838-1923
| 1902
| Later Viscount Morley
|
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky
| 1838-1903
| 1902
|
|
| Edward Hobart Seymour
| 1840-1929
| 1902
|
|
| William Huggins
| 1824-1910
| 1902
|
|
| George Frederic Watts
| 1817-1904
| 1902
|
|
| George Stuart White
| 1835-1912
| 1905
|
|
| John Arbuthnot Fisher
| 1841-1920
| 1905
| Later Baron Fisher
|
| Richard Claverhouse Jebb
| 1841-1905
| 1905
|
|
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema
| 1836-1912
| 1905
|
|
| George Meredith
| 1828-1909
| 1905
|
|
| William Holman Hunt
| 1827-1910
| 1905
|
|
| Prince Aritomo Yamagata
| 1838-1922
| 1906
|
|
| Prince Iwao Oyama
| 1842-1916
| 1906
|
|
| Marquis Heihachiro Togo
| 1848-1934
| 1906
|
|
| Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
| 1841-1917
| 1906
|
|
| James Bryce
| 1838-1922
| 1907
| Later Viscount Bryce
|
| Joseph Dalton Hooker
| 1817-1911
| 1907
|
|
| Florence Nightingale
| 1820-1910
| 1907
|
|
| Henry Jackson
| 1839-1921
| 1908
|
|
| Alfred Russel Wallace
| 1823-1913
| 1908
|
|
| William Crookes
| 1832-1919
| 1910
|
|
| Thomas Hardy
| 1840-1928
| 1910
|
|
| George Otto Trevelyan
| 1838-1928
| 1911
|
|
| Edward William Elgar
| 1857-1934
| 1911
|
|
| Arthur Knyvet Wilson
| 1842-1921
| 1912
|
|
| Joseph John Thomson
| 1856-1940
| 1912
|
|
| Archibald Geikie
| 1835-1924
| 1914
|
|
| John Denton Pinkstone French
| 1852-1925
| 1914
| Later Earl of Ypres
|
| Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
| 1856-1928
| 1915
|
|
| Henry James
| 1843-1916
| 1916
|
|
| John Jellicoe
| 1859-1935
| 1916
| Later Earl Jellicoe
|
| Arthur James Balfour
| 1848-1930
| 1916
| Later Earl Balfour
|
| Ferdinand Foch
| 1851-1929
| 1918
|
|
| David Beatty
| 1871-1936
| 1919
| Later Earl Beatty
|
| Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
| 1861-1928
| 1919
|
|
| Joseph Joffre
| 1852-1931
| 1919
|
|
| David Lloyd George
| 1863-1945
| 1919
| Later Earl Lloyd George
|
| James Matthew Barrie
| 1860-1937
| 1922
|
|
| Francis Herbert Bradley
| 1846-1924
| 1924
|
|
| Charles Scott Sherrington
| 1857-1952
| 1924
|
|
| James George Frazer
| 1854-1941
| 1925
|
|
| Ernest Rutherford
| 1871-1937
| 1925
| Later Baron Rutherford
|
| Charles Algernon Parsons
| 1854-1931
| 1927
|
|
| George Abraham Grierson
| 1851-1941
| 1928
|
|
| Robert Seymour Bridges
| 1844-1930
| 1929
|
|
| John Galsworthy
| 1867-1933
| 1929
|
|
| Samuel Alexander
| 1859-1938
| 1930
|
|
| Montague Rhodes James
| 1862-1936
| 1930
|
|
| George Macaulay Trevelyan
| 1876-1962
| 1930
|
|
| Charles Edward Madden
| 1862-1935
| 1931
|
|
| Philip Wilson Steer
| 1860-1942
| 1931
|
|
| William Henry Bragg
| 1862-1942
| 1931
|
|
| John William Mackail
| 1859-1945
| 1935
|
|
| John Masefield
| 1878-1967
| 1935
|
|
| Ralph Vaughan Williams
| 1872-1958
| 1935
|
|
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins
| 1861-1947
| 1935
|
|
| Philip Walhouse Chetwode
| 1869-1950
| 1936
| Later Baron Chetwode
|
| Herbert_Albert_Laurens_Fisher
| 1865-1940
| 1937
|
|
| Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
| 1857-1941
| 1937
|
|
| Arthur Stanley Eddington
| 1882-1944
| 1938
|
|
| Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield
| 1873-1967
| 1939
|
|
| James Hopwood Jeans
| 1877-1946
| 1939
|
|
| Cyril Louis Norton Newall
| 1886-1963
| 1940
| Later Baron Newall
|
| George Gilbert Aime Murray
| 1866-1957
| 1941
|
|
| Edwin Landseer Lutyens
| 1869-1944
| 1942
|
|
| Augustus Edwin John
| 1878-1961
| 1942
|
|
| Edward Douglas Adrian
| 1889-1977
| 1942
| Later Baron Adrian
|
| William Searle Holdsworth
| 1871-1944
| 1943
|
|
| Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound
| 1877-1943
| 1943
|
|
| Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
| 1859-1947
| 1944
|
|
| Henry Hallett Dale
| 1875-1968
| 1944
|
|
| Giles Gilbert Scott
| 1880-1960
| 1944
|
|
| Alfred North Whitehead
| 1861-1947
| 1945
|
|
| Dwight David Eisenhower
| 1890-1969
| 1945
|
|
| Winston Churchill
| 1874-1965
| 1946
|
|
| Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
| 1893-1971
| 1946
|
|
| Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
| 1883-1963
| 1946
|
|
| Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
| 1883-1963
| 1946
|
|
| Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
| 1881-1959
| 1946
|
|
| Jan Christian Smuts
| 1870-1959
| 1947
|
|
| John Gilbert Winant
| 1889-1947
| 1947
|
|
| William Lyon Mackenzie King
| 1874-1950
| 1947
|
|
| Thomas Stearns Eliot
| 1888-1965
| 1948
|
|
| Robert Robinson
| 1886-1975
| 1949
|
|
| Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
| 1872-1970
| 1949
|
|
| Alexander George Montagu Cadogan
| 1884-1968
| 1951
|
|
| Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
| 1873-1956
| 1951
|
|
| George Edward Moore
| 1873-1958
| 1951
|
|
| Clement Richard Attlee
| 1883-1967
| 1951
| Later Earl Attlee
|
| Wilder Graves Penfield
| 1891-1976
| 1953
|
|
| Walter de la Mare
| 1873-1956
| 1953
|
|
| Albert Schweitzer
| 1875-1965
| 1955
|
|
| William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey
| 1872-1969
| 1956
|
|
| John Douglas Cockcroft
| 1897-1967
| 1957
|
|
| John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
| 1882-1958
| 1957
|
|
| Frank McFarlane Burnet
| 1899-1985
| 1958
|
|
| Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
| 1870-1963
| 1958
|
|
| Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
| 1891-1969
| 1960
|
|
| Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
| 1897-1967
| 1960
|
|
| Graham Vivian Sutherland
| 1903-1980
| 1960
|
|
| Geoffrey de Havilland
| 1882-1965
| 1962
|
|
| Basil Urwin Spence
| 1907-1976
| 1962
|
|
| Owen Dixon
| 1886-1972
| 1963
|
|
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
| 1888-1975
| 1963
|
|
| George Peabody Gooch
| 1873-1968
| 1963
|
|
| Henry Spencer Moore
| 1898-1986
| 1963
|
|
| Edward Benjamin Britten
| 1913-1976
| 1965
| Later Baron Britten
|
| Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
| 1910-1994
| 1965
|
|
| Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
| 1900-1979
| 1965
|
|
| Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
| 1898-1968
| 1965
|
|
| Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett
| 1897-1974
| 1967
|
|
| William Turner Walton
| 1902-1983
| 1967
|
|
| Ben Nicholson
| 1894-1982
| 1968
|
|
| Solly Zuckerman
| 1904-1993
| 1968
| Later Baron Zuckerman
|
| HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
| b. 1921
| 1968
|
|
| Edward Morgan Forster
| 1879-1970
| 1969
|
|
| Malcolm John Macdonald
| 1901-1981
| 1969
|
|
| William George Penney, Baron Penney
| 1909-1991
| 1969
|
|
| Geoffrey Iingram Taylor
| 1886-1975
| 1969
|
|
| Cicely Veronica Wedgwood
| 1910-1997
| 1969
|
|
| John Cawte Beaglehole
| 1901-1971
| 1969
|
|
| Lester Bowles Pearson
| 1897-1972
| 1971
|
|
| Isaiah Berlin
| 1909-1997
| 1971
|
|
| George Robert Edwards
| 1908-2003
| 1971
|
|
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
| 1914-1998
| 1973
|
|
| Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
| 1902-1984
| 1973
|
|
| Harold Macmillan
| 1894-1986
| 1976
| Later Earl of Stockton
|
| Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside
| 1901-1983
| 1976
|
|
| Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark
| 1903-1983
| 1976
|
|
| Ronald Syme
| 1903-1989
| 1976
|
|
| Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
| 1907-1997
| 1977
|
|
| Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks
| 1905-1992
| 1977
|
|
| Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton
| 1904-1988
| 1977
|
|
| John Boynton Pristley
| 1894-1984
| 1977
|
|
| Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier
| 1907-1989
| 1981
|
|
| Peter Brian Medawar
| 1915-1987
| 1981
|
|
| Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire
| 1917-1992
| 1981
| Later Baron Cheshire
|
| William Owen Chadwick
| b. 1916
| 1983
|
|
| Andrew Fielding Huxley
| b. 1917
| 1983
|
|
| Sidney Robert Nolan
| 1917-1992
| 1983
|
|
| Michael Kemp Tippett
| 1905-1998
| 1983
|
|
| Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
| 1910-1997
| 1983
|
|
| Henry Graham Greene
| 1904-1991
| 1986
|
|
| Frederick Sanger
| b. 1918
| 1986
|
|
| Frank Whittle
| 1907-1996
| 1986
|
|
| Yehudi Menuhin
| 1916-1999
| 1987
| Later Baron Menhuin
|
| Ernest Hans Josef Gombrich
| 1909-2001
| 1988
|
|
| Max Ferdinand Perutz
| 1914-2002
| 1988
|
|
| Cicely Mary Strode Saunders
| b. 1918
| 1989
|
|
| George Porter
| 1920-2002
| 1989
| Later Baron Porter
|
| Margaret Thatcher
| b. 1925
| 1990
| Later Baroness Thatcher
|
| Joan Sutherland
| b. 1926
| 1991
|
|
| Francis Harry Compton Crick
| b. 1916
| 1991
|
|
| Ninette de Valois
| 1898-2001
| 1992
|
|
| Michael Francis Atiyah
| b. 1929
| 1992
|
|
| Lucien Freud
| b. 1922
| 1993
|
|
| Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead
| 1920-2003
| 1993
|
|
| Nelson Mandela
| b. 1918
| 1995
|
|
| Aaron Klug
| b. 1926
| 1995
|
|
| Sir John Gielgud
| 1904-2000
| 1996
|
|
| Alfred Thompson Denning, Baron Denning
| 1899-1999
| 1997
|
|
| Norman Robert Foster
| b. 1935
| 1997
| Later Baron Foster of Thames Bank
|
| Denis Eric Rooke
| b. 1924
| 1997
|
|
| Edward James Hughes
| 1930-1998
| 1998
|
|
| George Basil Cardinal Hume
| 1923-1999
| 1999
|
|
| James Whyte Black
| b. 1924
| 2000
|
|
| Anthony Alfred Caro
| b. 1924
| 2000
|
|
| Roger Penrose
| b. 1931
| 2000
|
|
| Tom Stoppard
| b. 1937
| 2000
|
|
| HRH Charles, Prince of Wales
| b. 1948
| 2002
|
|
| Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford
| b. 1936
| 2002
|
|
| Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
| b. 1936
| 2002
|
|