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
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 Adele, Baroness Greenfield of Ot Moor