Past Presidents of English PEN

John Galsworthy	1921 - 1932
H.G. Wells	1933 - 1936
J.B. Priestley	1937
Henry W. Nevinson	1938
Storm Jameson	1939 - 1944
Sir Desmond Macarthy	1945 - 1950
Veronica Wedgwood	1951 - 1957
Richard Church	1958
Alan Pryce-Jones	1959 - 1961
Rosamond Lehmann CBE	1962 - 1966
L.P. Hartley CBE	1967 - 1970
Sir V.S. Pritchett CBE	1971 - 1975
Kathleen Nott	1975
Stephen Spender CBE	1976 - 1977
Lettice Cooper CBE	1977 - 1978
Francis King CBE	1979 - 1985
Michael Holroyd CBE	1986 - 1987
Lady Antonia Fraser CBE	1988 - 1990
Ronald Harwood CBE	1990 - 1993
Josephine Pullein-Thompson MBE	1994 - 1997
Lady Rachel Billington	1998 - 2000
Victoria Glendinning CBE	2001 - 2003
Alastair Niven OBE	2004 - 2007
Lisa Appignanesi	2008 - 2010