Presidents

Details of past presidents of the Association of Assistant Librarians and
the Career Development Group are given below. Chairmen 1895-1896 to 1907-1908; Presidents 1908-1909 onwards

1895 - 1896 Robert Alec Peddie (Gladstone Library, NLC)
1896 - 1898 Alfred Henry Carter (St Martins)
1898 (Jul-Nov) Fredrick Meaden Roberts (St George, Hanover Square)
1898 (Dec) - 1900 Henry Ogle (Hampstead)
1900 - 1904 Evan G Rees (Westminster)
1904 - 1906 William George Chambers (Woolwich)
1906 - 1908 William Benson Thorne (Poplar)
1908 - 1909 William Benson Thorne (Poplar)
1909 - 1912 W C Berwick Sayers (Croydon)
1912 - 1914 Henry T Coutts (Islington)
1914 - 1915 Norman Treliving (Leeds)
1915 - 1916 Evan G Rees (Westminster)
1916 - 1917 James Ross (Liverpool)
1917 - 1918 John Fredrick Hogg (Battersea)
1918 - 1919 Ethel Gerard (Worthing)
1919 - 1920 R F Bullen (Poplar)
1920 - 1921 H M Cashmore (Birmingham)
1921 - 1922 James D Stewart (Islington)
1922 - 1923 E C Wickens (Liverpool)
1923 - 1924 W H Parker (Hackney)
1924 - 1925 I Briggs (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
1925 - 1926 Henry A Sharp (Croydon)
1926 - 1927 G W Strother (Leeds)
1927 - 1928 George F Vale (Bethel Green)
1928 - 1929 A Webb (Brighton)
1929 - 1930 R Cooper (Battersea)
1930 - 1931 L Chubb (Birmingham)
1931 - 1932 Gurner P Jones (Stepney)
1932 - 1933 W G Fry (Manchester)
1933 - 1934 Elsie M Exley (St Marylebone)
1934 - 1935 W E Hurford (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
1936 F Seymour Smith (Hornsey)
1937 E Sellick (Cardiff)
1938 Arthur R Hewitt (Middle Temple)
1939 A Lloyd Carver (Portsmouth)
1940 (Jan - Sep) T I M Clulow (Leeds)
1940 (Oct) - 1943 Frank M Gardner (Luton)
1944 - 1946 Jack T Gillett (Leeds: Willesden)
1947 H W Marr (Sheffield)
1948 E Cave (Blackpool)
1949 Wilfred Pearson (Birmingham)
1950 Frank C Tighe (Nottingham)
1951 E A Clough
1952 FA Sharr
1953 C W Taylor (Sheffield)
1954 J S Pasonage (Liverpool)
1955 JS Bristow
1956 W Tynemouth
1957 Miss E J Wilson
1958 O S Tomlinson (Finchley)
1959 E F Ferry (Derbyshire County Library)
1960 Arthur C Jones
1961 W Howard Philips
1962 William Godfrey Thompson (Manchester)
1963 Ron G Surridge (Hornsey)
1964 Jon Hoyle
1965 Tom Featherstone
1966 Jean Plaister
1967 Graham Crowther
1968 FA (Sandy) Miller
1969 Michael J. Ramsden
1970 Bill Davies
1971 Ron J Edwards
1972 Alan G White
1973 Miss E McNeil (Royal Inst of Chart Surveyors)
1974 D R Bartlett (Loughborough)
1975 M C Head (Robert Gordon Institute)
1976 J M Pluse (Bradford)
1977 P G Gill (Warwickshire)
1978 S J Eccles (Lancashire)
1979 J P S Luckett (Leeds)
1980 W G Williams (Clwyd)
1981 Patrick Conway
1982 Rob N Froud (Brent)
1983 Keith Crawshaw (Sheffield)
1984 Jean Steward (University of East Anglia)
1985 Bob McKee (Solihull College of Technology)
1986 Rona Aldrich
1987 Alan Watkin
1988 Carol Campbell-Hayes (Nottinghamshire)
1989 M P Stone (Cambridgeshire)
1990 Roger Penny (Kirklees)
1991 Jonathan Wilson (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Poly)
1992 Avril Johnston (SCET)
1993 Linda Greenwood (Belfast)
1994 Nigel Ward (Nottingham)
1995 Christine Wise (Fawcett Library)
1996 Patsy Heap (Birmingham)
1997 Pete Loewenstein (Nottingham Probation Service)
1998 Andrew Fripp (Gloucestershire)
1999 Jean Bennett (Engineering Employers Fed)
2000 Liz Jolly (South Bank University)
2001 Anne Partridge (Cranfield University)
2002 Tracy Long
2003 Ayub Khan (Birmingham)
2004 Joanna Ball (Cambridge)
2005 Tom Relph (South Tyneside Libraries)
2006 Isabel Hood (Semple Fraser)
2007 Rowena Macrae-Gibson