Every Brother who has served as Worshipful Master since the Lodge’s earliest surviving records, transcribed directly from the two honours boards that hang in the Lodge room at Duncombe Place. A name appearing more than once served a further term in a later year, each noted in turn.
“Past Masters of the York Lodge, heretofore the Union Lodge, having been in 1870 altered by the authority of the M.W.G.M.”
— as inscribed at the head of the earlier of the two boards, covering 1777 to 1877.
| Year | Worshipful Master | In this year… |
|---|---|---|
| 1777 | Joseph Jones | In this year, the British army under General John Burgoyne surrendered to American forces at Saratoga, a turning-point battle of the Revolutionary War. |
| 1778 | Thomas Denton | In this year, the explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to sight the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands. |
| 1779 | John Preston | In this year, the Great Siege of Gibraltar began, as French and Spanish forces attacked the British-held fortress. |
| 1780 | Willm Sheppard | In this year, the first Epsom Derby horse race was run at Epsom Downs in Surrey, won by a horse named Diomed. |
| 1781 | James Rule | In this year, the Iron Bridge, the world's first major bridge built of cast iron, opened across the River Severn in England. |
| 1782 | Jas. Rule (2nd time) | In this year, the British Parliament granted legislative independence to Ireland's own parliament, ending decades of direct control from London. |
| 1783 | Christr Sedgewick | In this year, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally ending the American Revolutionary War and recognising the independence of the United States. |
| 1784 | Jas. Rule (3rd time) | In this year, the British Parliament passed Pitt's India Act, tightening government oversight of the East India Company's rule in India. |
| 1785 | John Wilkinson | In this year, the first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later renamed The Times, was published in London. |
| 1785 | Christr Sedgewick (2nd time) | In this year, the first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later renamed The Times, was published in London. |
| 1786 | William Ransley | In this year, the astronomer Caroline Herschel discovered a comet from England, the first comet ever found by a woman. |
| 1786 | Jas. Rule (4th time) | In this year, the astronomer Caroline Herschel discovered a comet from England, the first comet ever found by a woman. |
| 1787 | Willm Ransley (2nd time) | In this year, the campaigners Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London. |
| 1788 | William Grave | In this year, the First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove, founding the British colony of New South Wales in Australia. |
| 1789 | John Bewlay | In this year, the Mutiny on the Bounty took place, as Fletcher Christian seized HMS Bounty from Captain William Bligh. |
| 1790 | John Raine | In this year, the first specialised lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne in England, an early step in sea rescue. |
| 1791 | William Hawton | In this year, the Ordnance Survey was founded in Great Britain to produce accurate national maps. |
| 1792 | Willm Ransley (3rd time) | In this year, the London Corresponding Society was founded, one of Britain's first organisations campaigning for parliamentary reform. |
| 1793 | Willm Grave (2nd time) | In this year, the French Republic declared war on Great Britain, beginning more than two decades of conflict between the two nations. |
| 1794 | John Morley | In this year, the United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, settling disputes left over from the American Revolution. |
| 1795 | John Seller | In this year, the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, married Caroline of Brunswick in London. |
| 1796 | John Jackson | In this year, the Wearmouth Bridge opened in Sunderland, England, with the longest single-span cast-iron arch in the world. |
| 1797 | William Dalton | In this year, the Bank of England issued its first one-pound banknotes, after a law suspended the conversion of notes into gold. |
| 1798 | John Seller (2nd time) | In this year, the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymously published Lyrical Ballads, launching the English Romantic movement. |
| 1799 | Edmund Peck | In this year, the Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced Britain's first income tax, to help fund the war against France. |
| 1800 | John Seller (3rd time) | In this year, the Act of Union was passed, providing for Great Britain and Ireland to unite as the United Kingdom from 1801. |
| 1801 | John Seller (4th time) | In this year, the United Kingdom held its first census, recording a population of about 8.9 million in England and Wales. |
| 1802 | William Scruton | In this year, the Rosetta Stone arrived in England and was presented to the Society of Antiquaries and the British Museum. |
| 1803 | Lucas Lund | In this year, the Surrey Iron Railway opened between Wandsworth and Croydon, one of England's first public railways. |
| 1804 | John Monkman | In this year, the engineer Richard Trevithick ran the world's first steam locomotive to haul a load, on a tramroad in Wales. |
| 1805 | John Seller (5th time) | In this year, the Battle of Trafalgar was fought, and Admiral Lord Nelson was killed after leading the British fleet to victory. |
| 1806 | Lucas Lund (2nd time) | In this year, the naval hero Admiral Lord Nelson was given a state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral in London. |
| 1807 | Lucas Lund (3rd time) | In this year, the Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the transatlantic slave trade across most of the British Empire. |
| 1808 | J. Monkman (2nd time) | In this year, the Rum Rebellion took place in New South Wales, Australia's only military takeover of a civil government. |
| 1809 | Ralph Peacock | In this year, a new prison opened at Dartmoor in England, built initially to house French prisoners of war. |
| 1810 | Henry Breary | In this year, the king, George III, was declared permanently insane, leading to the establishment of the Regency the following year. |
| 1811 | The Hon. L. Dundas | In this year, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent, ruling in place of his father King George III. |
| 1812 | John Seller Junr. | In this year, the British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated in the House of Commons, the only UK premier ever killed in office. |
| 1813 | Samuel Cowling | In this year, the novelist Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was published anonymously in London. |
| 1814 | David Cowling | In this year, the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain. |
| 1815 | John Pearson | In this year, the Battle of Waterloo was fought, as allied forces led by the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon. |
| 1816 | J. Seller Junr (2nd time) | In this year, the chemist Sir Humphry Davy's safety lamp for miners was first tested underground at a colliery in England. |
| 1817 | John Raper | In this year, the Rush-Bagot Treaty was signed, limiting naval forces on the Great Lakes between the United States and British North America. |
| 1818 | Robert Ellison | In this year, the Royal Coburg Hall, later known as the Old Vic, opened as a theatre in London. |
| 1819 | R. Ellison (2nd time) | In this year, the colonial administrator Sir Stamford Raffles founded a British trading settlement at Singapore, later to become a major city. |
| 1820 | William Wilks | In this year, the survey ship HMS Beagle, which would later carry Charles Darwin on his famous voyage, was launched at Woolwich. |
| 1821 | J. Seller Junr (3rd time) | In this year, the first edition of the Manchester Guardian newspaper, later known simply as The Guardian, was published in England. |
| 1822 | R. Ellison (3rd time) | In this year, the king, George IV, made a state visit to Scotland, the first by a reigning monarch in nearly two centuries. |
| 1823 | William Brown | In this year, the medical journal The Lancet was founded in London by the surgeon Thomas Wakley. |
| 1824 | W. Brown (2nd time) | In this year, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which still saves lives at sea today, was founded in Britain. |
| 1825 | Edward Elgin | In this year, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in England, the world's first railway to carry passengers by steam locomotive. |
| 1826 | William Plows | In this year, the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, opened between Wales and Anglesey, a landmark feat of engineering. |
| 1827 | George Woodall | In this year, the Battle of Navarino was fought, the last major naval battle fought entirely under sail. |
| 1828 | G. Woodall (2nd time) | In this year, the Zoological Society of London opened London Zoo, one of the world's first scientific zoos. |
| 1829 | Edward Butler | In this year, Robert Peel established London's Metropolitan Police Service, whose officers became known as "bobbies". |
| 1830 | George Hindsley | In this year, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened, the world's first intercity railway operated solely by steam locomotives. |
| 1831 | John Brown | In this year, King William IV was crowned in Westminster Abbey, formally beginning his reign as monarch. |
| 1832 | Fredrick Kendall | In this year, the Reform Act became law, overhauling the electoral system in England and Wales. |
| 1833 | Edd Elgin (2nd time) | In this year, the Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent, beginning the abolition of slavery across the British Empire. |
| 1834 | Charles Robinson | In this year, a great fire destroyed most of the old Palace of Westminster, the Houses of Parliament, in London. |
| 1835 | C. Robinson (2nd time) | In this year, continental Europe's first railway opened, running between Brussels and Mechelen in Belgium. |
| 1836 | Edd Butler (2nd time) | In this year, the Marriage Act allowed civil marriages to take place in England and Wales for the first time. |
| 1837 | J. Brown (2nd time) | In this year, Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne at the age of eighteen. |
| 1838 | Thomas Ward | In this year, Grace Darling and her father rescued survivors from the wrecked steamship Forfarshire off the Farne Islands. |
| 1839 | James Kirby | In this year, the world's first commercial electric telegraph line began operating alongside the Great Western Railway in England. |
| 1840 | J. Kirby (2nd time) | In this year, the Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp, was issued in Britain. |
| 1841 | William Kirby | In this year, the satirical magazine Punch was first published in London. |
| 1842 | W. Kirby (2nd time) | In this year, the Mines and Collieries Act banned women and boys under ten from working underground in British mines. |
| 1843 | Henry Preston | In this year, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain was launched in Bristol, pioneering iron-hulled ocean liners. |
| 1844 | Charles Js Hanson | In this year, George Williams founded the YMCA in London, regarded as the world's first youth organisation. |
| 1845 | Richard Dalton | In this year, potato blight broke out in Ireland, marking the start of the Great Famine. |
| 1846 | R. Dalton (2nd time) | In this year, Parliament voted to repeal the Corn Laws, moving Britain toward free trade in grain. |
| 1847 | E.W. Richardson | In this year, Birkenhead Park opened in Merseyside, believed to be the world's first publicly funded civic park. |
| 1848 | W.C. Turner | In this year, Chartists held a mass rally at Kennington Park, London, presenting a petition to Parliament for voting reform. |
| 1849 | T.E. Newnum | In this year, the Second Anglo-Sikh War ended with Britain's annexation of the Punjab. |
| 1850 | R. Welch Hollon | In this year, the Britannia Bridge opened across the Menai Strait, linking Anglesey to mainland Wales. |
| 1851 | John J. Flower | In this year, the Great Exhibition opened at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, showcasing global industry and design. |
| 1852 | T.H. Barker | In this year, the new Palace of Westminster opened in London as home to the Houses of Parliament. |
| 1853 | T.H. Barker (2nd time) | In this year, Manchester was granted city status, recognising its growth as an industrial centre. |
| 1854 | T.E. Newnum (2nd time) | In this year, the United Kingdom declared war on Russia, beginning the Crimean War. |
| 1855 | William Cowling | In this year, Queen Victoria made a state visit to Paris, the first by a reigning British monarch since 1413. |
| 1856 | Robert Farrer | In this year, Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest award for military gallantry. |
| 1857 | Thomas Simpson | In this year, the Victoria and Albert Museum opened in London, officially inaugurated by Queen Victoria. |
| 1858 | Edd Hotham Newton | In this year, the Government of India Act transferred control of India from the East India Company to the Crown. |
| 1859 | John March | In this year, the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster, known as Big Ben, began keeping time. |
| 1860 | W. Benson Richardson | In this year, the Open Championship golf tournament was played for the first time, at Prestwick in Scotland. |
| 1861 | William Lawton | In this year, Admiral Robert FitzRoy issued the first public weather forecast in Britain. |
| 1862 | Lord Londesbrough | In this year, the United Kingdom annexed Lagos Island, in present-day Nigeria. |
| 1863 | W. Dalla Husband | In this year, the world's first underground railway opened in London, running between Paddington and Farringdon Street. |
| 1864 | James Meek | In this year, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opened across the Avon Gorge in Bristol. |
| 1865 | Thomas Cooper | In this year, Lewis Carroll published his children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. |
| 1866 | John Edd Mayne Young | In this year, the SS Great Eastern completed a lasting transatlantic telegraph cable, linking Ireland and Newfoundland. |
| 1867 | John Smith | In this year, the British North America Act created the Dominion of Canada. |
| 1868 | Ralph Davison | In this year, the first Trades Union Congress was held in Manchester, England. |
| 1869 | A.E. Hargrove | In this year, the Suez Canal opened, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas and shortening the sea route to Asia. |
| 1870 | Thos Gibson Hartley | In this year, the novelist Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent, leaving his final novel unfinished. |
| 1871 | Joseph Todd | In this year, Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in London. |
| 1872 | Thos Smurthwaite | In this year, the first FA Cup Final was played in London, the world's oldest football competition. |
| 1873 | Hy Vaughan Palmer | In this year, the Kennel Club, the world's first kennel club, was founded in Britain. |
| 1874 | George Balmford | In this year, Walter Clopton Wingfield patented the game of lawn tennis in Britain. |
| 1875 | Swann Maltby | In this year, Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel. |
| 1876 | Francis Rawling | In this year, the Royal Titles Act granted Queen Victoria the additional title of Empress of India. |
| 1877 | Wm Cowling (2nd time) | In this year, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India under the Royal Titles Act. |
| 1878 | Rev. W. Valentine | In this year, Cleopatra's Needle, an ancient Egyptian obelisk, was erected on the Thames Embankment in London. |
| 1879 | Anthony Buckle | In this year, the Tay Bridge in Scotland collapsed in a storm as a train crossed it, killing 75 people. |
| 1880 | Wm H. Gainforth | In this year, William Ewart Gladstone became Prime Minister for the second time after winning the general election. |
| 1881 | Mark Rooke | In this year, the Savoy Theatre in London opened as the first public building lit entirely by electricity. |
| 1882 | J. Sykes Rymer | In this year, British forces occupied Cairo after the bombardment of Alexandria, establishing control over Egypt. |
| 1883 | G. Kirby (Potter-Kirby) | In this year, the Boys' Brigade, the first uniformed youth organisation, was founded in Glasgow. |
| 1884 | G. Garbutt | In this year, the Fabian Society was founded in London to promote gradual social and political reform. |
| 1885 | William Draper | In this year, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 1886 | Henry Foster | In this year, Royal Holloway College for women was opened near London by Queen Victoria. |
| 1887 | T.G. Hodgson | In this year, Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years on the throne. |
| 1888 | William Smith | In this year, the Football League, the first organised football league competition in the world, was founded in England. |
| 1889 | Samuel Border | In this year, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was founded in Manchester. |
| 1890 | C.M. Forbes | In this year, the Forth Bridge, with the longest cantilever span in the world, opened in Scotland. |
| 1891 | T.S. Brogden | In this year, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories began appearing in The Strand Magazine. |
| 1892 | E.W. Purnell | In this year, William Ewart Gladstone became Prime Minister for the fourth time, backed by Irish nationalist support. |
| 1893 | J.B. Sampson | In this year, St Hilda's College, Oxford, was founded to provide higher education for women. |
| 1894 | Arthur Jones | In this year, Tower Bridge opened to traffic across the River Thames in London. |
| 1895 | Edwin Carter | In this year, the National Trust was founded in Britain to preserve places of historic interest and natural beauty. |
| 1896 | Mungo Bryson | In this year, the Glasgow Subway opened, becoming the third-oldest underground railway system in the world. |
| 1897 | F.S. Gramshaw, M.D. | In this year, Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years on the throne. |
| 1898 | Alfred Procter | In this year, British and Egyptian forces under Kitchener defeated Sudanese forces at the Battle of Omdurman. |
| 1899 | F.W. Laughton | In this year, the Second Boer War began between Britain and the Boer republics of South Africa. |
| 1900 | John A.A. Askew | In this year, the Labour Representation Committee, forerunner of the Labour Party, was founded in London. |
| 1901 | Edwd S. Robinson | In this year, Queen Victoria died after a 64-year reign, and her son ascended the throne as Edward VII. |
| 1902 | Oliver G. Taylor | In this year, Edward VII was crowned king at Westminster Abbey, after his coronation was delayed by an emergency operation. |
| 1903 | J.S. Shannon | In this year, the Women's Social and Political Union, a leading suffragette organisation, was founded in Manchester. |
| 1904 | F.W. Cull | In this year, the Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France, easing decades of colonial rivalry. |
| 1905 | G. Potter Kirby (2nd Time) | In this year, HMS Dreadnought, a battleship that would revolutionise naval design, was laid down in England. |
| 1906 | Thos Cordukes Thompson | In this year, the Piccadilly line of the London Underground opened between Finsbury Park and Hammersmith. |
| 1907 | Norman T. Crombie | In this year, the first taxicabs fitted with taximeters began operating on the streets of London. |
| 1908 | F.A. Camidge | In this year, London hosted the Summer Olympic Games, introducing the tradition of a formal opening ceremony parade. |
| 1909 | J.B. Inglis | In this year, representatives from England, Australia and South Africa met at Lord's to found the Imperial Cricket Conference. |
| 1910 | H.H. Shaw, M.A. | In this year, King George V ascended to the throne after the death of his father, Edward VII. |
| 1911 | A.H. Barron | In this year, King George V and Queen Mary were crowned at Westminster Abbey. |
| 1912 | S. Needham | In this year, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team reached the South Pole, weeks after Amundsen's expedition. |
| 1913 | Rev. W. Johnson, B.Sc. | In this year, the Senghenydd colliery explosion in South Wales killed 439 miners, the worst mining disaster in UK history. |
| 1914 | G.A. Potter-Kirby | In this year, Britain declared war on Germany, entering the First World War. |
| 1915 | H.R. Morrell | In this year, RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people. |
| 1916 | H.L. Creer | In this year, the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the First World War, was fought in the North Sea. |
| 1917 | J. Grisdale | In this year, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration, backing a Jewish national home in Palestine. |
| 1918 | C.B. Johnson | In this year, the Representation of the People Act gave most women over 30 the right to vote in Britain. |
| 1919 | E.J. Hardcastle | In this year, Alcock and Brown completed the first non-stop transatlantic flight, landing in Ireland. |
| 1920 | W.R. Makins | In this year, the Cenotaph was unveiled in London and the Unknown Warrior was buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| 1921 | G.Y. Johnson | In this year, the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, establishing the Irish Free State. |
| 1922 | C.A. Rymer | In this year, the British Broadcasting Company began radio broadcasts from station 2LO in London. |
| 1923 | G.W. Daniel | In this year, Wembley Stadium opened in London, hosting its first FA Cup Final. |
| 1924 | R.J. Evans | In this year, Ramsay MacDonald became the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 1925 | C.E.L. Livesey | In this year, John Logie Baird transmitted the first television pictures with a greyscale image in London. |
| 1926 | M.L. Wheldon | In this year, the General Strike brought much of Britain's industry to a standstill for nine days. |
| 1927 | A. Fryer | In this year, the British Broadcasting Company was reconstituted as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) under a royal charter. |
| 1928 | J.C. Allin | In this year, the Representation of the People Act lowered the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them equal suffrage with men. |
| 1929 | Reuben Prescott Hall | In this year, the Wall Street Crash wiped out billions of dollars of stock market value, triggering the Great Depression. |
| 1930 | Alfred Race | In this year, aviator Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. |
| 1931 | Ernest Wilkinson Fox | In this year, the Statute of Westminster gave the Dominions of the British Commonwealth full legislative equality with the United Kingdom. |
| 1932 | David Baty | In this year, the House of Lords' ruling in Donoghue v Stevenson established the modern legal principle of a manufacturer's duty of care. |
| 1933 | G.H. Douglass | In this year, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, beginning the Nazi era in Europe. |
| 1934 | B.G. Laughton | In this year, Italy won the FIFA World Cup, beating Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the final in Rome. |
| 1935 | J.L. Burdekin | In this year, the Government of India Act was passed by the British Parliament, providing for greater self-government in British India. |
| 1936 | H.H. Dryland | In this year, King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson, and his brother became King George VI. |
| 1937 | F.E. Burridge | In this year, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were crowned at Westminster Abbey. |
| 1938 | F.H. Bramwell | In this year, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement, declaring he had secured 'peace for our time'. |
| 1939 | A. Hey | In this year, the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany after its invasion of Poland, beginning the Second World War. |
| 1940 | G.S. Bellerby | In this year, the Dunkirk evacuation rescued around 300,000 Allied troops from the beaches of northern France. |
| 1941 | H.I. Shaftoe | In this year, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the Second World War. |
| 1942 | J.G. Sykes | In this year, King George VI awarded the George Cross to the island of Malta in recognition of its people's wartime bravery. |
| 1943 | C. Leckenby | In this year, the Royal Air Force's 'Dambusters' raid, Operation Chastise, breached German dams in the Ruhr valley. |
| 1944 | W.D. Garbutt | In this year, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, opening a new front in the liberation of Europe. |
| 1945 | G. Stembridge | In this year, the Second World War in Europe ended with Germany's surrender, marked by VE Day celebrations across Britain. |
| 1946 | C.H. Cross | In this year, the United Nations held its first General Assembly meeting at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London. |
| 1947 | E.G. Border | In this year, India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain, with Jawaharlal Nehru becoming India's first prime minister. |
| 1948 | J.H. Kaye | In this year, the National Health Service began providing free healthcare to the public across the United Kingdom. |
| 1949 | C.B. Mein | In this year, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in London. |
| 1950 | H.N. Thompson | In this year, the Korean War began when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea. |
| 1951 | F.W. Shepherd | In this year, King George VI opened the Festival of Britain in London, showcasing British achievements in the arts, science, and design. |
| 1952 | G.W. Hayes | In this year, Princess Elizabeth acceded to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II following the death of her father, King George VI. |
| 1953 | F.R. Widdicombe | In this year, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, as part of a British expedition. |
| 1954 | N. Bond | In this year, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, at Oxford. |
| 1955 | R.J. Chambers | In this year, Britain's first commercial television service began broadcasting, ending the BBC's broadcasting monopoly. |
| 1956 | H. Cowling | In this year, the Suez Crisis began after Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal, leading to British, French and Israeli military action. |
| 1957 | G.N. Paul Crombie | In this year, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, beginning the Space Age. |
| 1958 | C.T. Marks | In this year, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was founded in Britain, launching a movement advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament. |
| 1959 | W.C. Larg | In this year, the iconic Mini motor car, designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, was launched in Britain. |
| 1960 | C.R. Thorp | In this year, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan delivered his 'Wind of Change' speech, signalling the end of colonial rule in Africa. |
| 1961 | W. Bedford | In this year, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. |
| 1962 | C.G. Wheway | In this year, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war before the Soviet Union removed its missiles from Cuba. |
| 1963 | E.F. Troughton | In this year, the Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire, when robbers stole millions of pounds from a Royal Mail train. |
| 1964 | A.E. Hopper | In this year, the Forth Road Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth in Scotland, then the longest suspension bridge outside the United States. |
| 1965 | J.A. Shaftoe | In this year, Sir Winston Churchill was given a state funeral in London, attended by dignitaries from around the world. |
| 1966 | D.L.T. Creer | In this year, England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium. |
| 1967 | G.G.F. Halliwell | In this year, the Beatles released their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the most influential records in popular music. |
| 1968 | F.D. Widdicombe | In this year, women machinists at Ford's Dagenham plant went on strike for equal pay, a dispute that helped lead to the Equal Pay Act. |
| 1969 | R.K. Park | In this year, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on its surface. |
| 1970 | G.W. Procter | In this year, Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the Beatles, effectively marking the end of the band. |
| 1971 | C.A. Price | In this year, the United Kingdom switched to decimal currency on 'Decimal Day', replacing the old system of pounds, shillings and pence. |
| 1972 | W. Cook | In this year, US President Richard Nixon made a historic visit to China, beginning the normalisation of relations between the two countries. |
| 1973 | D.H. Shaftoe | In this year, the United Kingdom joined the European Economic Community, along with Ireland and Denmark. |
| 1974 | R.M. Monks | In this year, Portugal's Carnation Revolution saw a largely peaceful military coup restore democracy after decades of dictatorship. |
| 1975 | J. Stansfield | In this year, Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative Party, becoming the first woman to lead a major British political party. |
| 1976 | R. Capper | In this year, Concorde began supersonic passenger service between London and Washington, D.C., extending transatlantic flights to the United States. |
| 1977 | R.L. Wood | In this year, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Silver Jubilee, marking twenty-five years since her accession to the throne. |
| 1978 | J.C. Hopper | In this year, Louise Brown, the world's first baby born through IVF, was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester. |
| 1979 | A. Jamieson | In this year, Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman Prime Minister after the Conservative election victory. |
| 1980 | S. Dawson | In this year, the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, ending a six-day siege and freeing the hostages. |
| 1981 | J.W. Bailey | In this year, Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral, watched by a global television audience. |
| 1982 | T. Hope | In this year, British forces recaptured the Falkland Islands after Argentina's surrender ended the ten-week conflict. |
| 1983 | R.T. McNeil | In this year, the Australian yacht Australia II ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year hold on the America's Cup. |
| 1984 | J.J.A. Bedford | In this year, British ice dancers Torvill and Dean won Olympic gold with their perfectly scored Bolero routine in Sarajevo. |
| 1985 | F.R. Griffiths | In this year, the Live Aid charity concert took place simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, raising funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. |
| 1986 | J.N. Walton | In this year, Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel, linking the two countries beneath the sea. |
| 1987 | P. Reed | In this year, the Great Storm of 1987 brought hurricane-force winds across southern England, felling millions of trees overnight. |
| 1988 | B.D.A. Hanson | In this year, Stephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time, which became a worldwide bestseller on cosmology. |
| 1989 | J. Hart | In this year, the Berlin Wall fell, symbolising the end of the Cold War division of Europe. |
| 1990 | J. Brach | In this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after twenty-seven years, aged seventy-one. |
| 1991 | R.P. Hodgson | In this year, Tim Berners-Lee made the World Wide Web publicly available for the first time. |
| 1992 | A.J.S. Hoskins | In this year, the pound sterling was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on what became known as Black Wednesday. |
| 1993 | M.R.H. Walker | In this year, British mathematician Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, unsolved for over three centuries. |
| 1994 | D. Bull | In this year, the Channel Tunnel formally opened, linking Britain and France by rail beneath the English Channel. |
| 1995 | R.E. Spencer | In this year, Toy Story, the first full-length computer-animated feature film, was released by Pixar and Disney. |
| 1996 | E. Mitchell | In this year, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, was born at Scotland's Roslin Institute. |
| 1997 | I. Pollard | In this year, J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel was published in London, launching a global publishing phenomenon. |
| 1998 | I. Pollard | In this year, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, marking a major step toward peace in Northern Ireland. |
| 1999 | J. Hughes | In this year, a total solar eclipse was visible across Cornwall and parts of Europe, the last seen from mainland Britain that century. |
| 2000 | A.S. Rogers | In this year, the London Eye opened to the public on the banks of the River Thames in London. |
| 2001 | D. Hughes | In this year, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. on 11 September killed nearly 3,000 people. |
| 2002 | R. Styan | In this year, the euro became the everyday currency for millions across twelve European Union countries. |
| 2003 | M. Jeffery | In this year, Concorde made its final commercial flight, ending an era of supersonic passenger air travel. |
| 2004 | K.F. Lippett | In this year, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, which grew into the world's largest social networking site. |
| 2005 | R.W. Binns | In this year, Charles, Prince of Wales, married Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor. |
| 2006 | V. Paylor | In this year, Twitter launched as a new microblogging platform that would go on to reshape public communication. |
| 2007 | B.J. Cottingham | In this year, Apple released the first iPhone, transforming mobile phones into pocket computers. |
| 2008 | J. Hughes (2nd Time) | In this year, Beijing hosted the Summer Olympic Games, watched by a record global television audience. |
| 2009 | M.P. Curley | In this year, NASA launched the Kepler space telescope to search for planets beyond our solar system. |
| 2010 | R.S. Rochford-Hyde | In this year, the UK general election produced a hung parliament, leading to Britain's first coalition government since the Second World War. |
| 2011 | K.F. Lippett (2nd Time) | In this year, Prince William married Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, watched by an estimated two billion people. |
| 2012 | M.A. McCloud | In this year, London hosted the Summer Olympic Games. |
| 2013 | M.P. Curley (2nd Time) | In this year, British physicist Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the Higgs boson. |
| 2014 | P. Cambridge | In this year, Glasgow hosted the Commonwealth Games, welcoming athletes from across seventy-one nations. |
| 2015 | C.J. Patrick | In this year, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history, surpassing Queen Victoria's record. |
| 2016 | A. Cade | In this year, the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. |
| 2017 | G.A. Nimmo MBE JP | In this year, the United Kingdom formally triggered Article 50, beginning the process of leaving the European Union. |
| 2018 | M.A. McCloud (2nd Time) | In this year, Prince Harry married Meghan Markle at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. |
| 2019 | M.A. McCloud (3rd Time) | In this year, England won the Cricket World Cup for the first time, beating New Zealand in a dramatic final at Lord's. |
| 2020 | P. Cambridge (2nd Time) | In this year, the United Kingdom became the first country to begin mass vaccination against COVID-19. |
| 2021 | P. Cambridge (3rd Time) | In this year, Tokyo hosted the postponed Summer Olympic Games amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2022 | M. Wallace | In this year, Queen Elizabeth II died after seventy years on the throne, and her son acceded as King Charles III. |
| 2023 | M.A. McCloud (4th Time) | In this year, King Charles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey in the first British coronation in seventy years. |
| 2024 | C. Moran | In this year, Paris hosted the Summer Olympic Games, drawing athletes from across the world. |
| 2025 | P. N. Cottingham | In this year, Britain marked the 80th anniversary of VE Day, with national commemorations eighty years on from the end of the Second World War in Europe. |
| 2026 | M. Barratt |
Transcribed from the Lodge’s honours board. If you spot an error or can fill a gap, please let the Secretary know.