Director of the Royal Institution

Below are directors of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with date of appointment.


 * Director of the Laboratory


 * 1801  Humphry Davy
 * 1825  Michael Faraday
 * 1867  John Tyndall
 * 1887  James Dewar


 * Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory


 * 1896  James Dewar
 * 1896  Lord Rayleigh
 * 1923  William Bragg
 * 1942  Henry Hallett Dale
 * 1946  Eric Rideal
 * 1950  Edward Andrade
 * 1954  Lawrence Bragg
 * 1998  Richard Catlow
 * 2008  Quentin Pankhurst


 * Director


 * 1965  William Lawrence Bragg
 * 1966  George, Baron Porter of Luddenham
 * 1986  David Philips (acting)
 * 1986  John Meurig Thomas
 * 1991  Peter Day
 * 1998  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
 * 2017  Sarah Harper
 * 2018  Shaun Fitzgerald
 * 2022  Katherine Mathieson