Presidents of the Chamber

Eminent figures in the Midlands – industrialists, business people, professionals and at least one lord - have held the post of president or chairman in Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Insdustry's long history.


(1813) Richard Spooner
(1813-1825) Samuel T Galton
(1826-27) William Phipson
(1828-30) Samuel T Galton
(1831) Timothy Smith
(1855-64) Richard Spooner MP
(1864-65) William Scholefield MP
(1866) John S Wright
(1867-68) Alfred Field
(1869-70) Thomas Lloyd
(1871-72) C S Hawkes
(1873-74) Ralph Heaton
(1875-77) John Skirrow Wright
(1878-80) Philip H Muntz
(1881) Samuel Booth
(1882) Charles D Sturge
(1886-87) Henry W Elliot
(1888) Ralph Heaton
(1889) Henry W Elliot
(1890-91) J William Tonks
(1892-94) Robert P Yates
(1895-97) Theodore J Walsh
(1898-1903) F B Goodman
(1904-10) Joseph S Taylor
(1911-18) H W Sambidge
(1919-21) H C Field
(1922) Fritz Hickinbotham
(1923) Gilbert C Vyle
(1924) Herbert Lakin-Smith
(1925) Herbert E Parkes
(1926) Col H J Walduck
(1927) George N Guest
(1928) RC Rodgers
(1929) Walter Barrow
(1930) John Belliss
(1931) EW Bache
(1932) Peter F Bennett
(1933) Walter L Chance
(1934) Thomas J Kennedy
(1935) Major Francis W Smith
(1936) G Philip Achurch
(1937-38) The Earl of Dudley
(1939) Frank Wain
(1940-42) John H Allen
(1943) Arnold H Godfrey
(1944-45) Kenneth H Wilson
(1946) G Neville Sperryn
(1947) Sir Percy H Mills
(1948) Walter F Higgs
(1949) James Leek
(1950) Stephen F Burman
(1951) Sir Arthur J G Smout
(1952) AB Waring
(1953) CAF Hastilow
(1954) J Ivan Yates
(1955) Eric M Clayson
(1956) J Edward Belliss
(1957) PRS Bache
(1958) Norman G Lancaster
(1959) LGT Farmer
(1960) P Middlemas
(1961) J Gracie
(1962) WE Kenrick
(1963) L Hargreaves Beare
(1964) KSF Corley
(1965) H Eccles-Williams
(1966) Oscar Hahn
(1967) R S King-Farlow
(1968) Frank Cole
(1969) N I Bond-Williams
(1970) Eric Turner
(1971) W RP King
(1972) Bernard Scott
(1973) PR Stedeford
(1974) DG Justham
(1975) Dr DV Atterton
(1976) Alex Laker
(1977) Richard Hale
(1978) Sir Robert Booth
(1979) JL Brown
(1980) A David Owen
(1981) J A Black
(1982) RGC Messervy
(1983) RW Fordham
(1984) RS Burman
(1985) Francis C Graves
(1987) HJ Musgrove
(1988) Sir Adrian Cadbury
(1989) Tom Garnier
(1990) Martin J Kenrick
(1991) Gary J Allen
(1992) John R T Douglas
(1993) W George K Carter
(1994) David H Probert
(1995) John R Hawksley
(1996) Robert Jordan
(1997) Richard Ireland
(1998) Roger J Dickens
(1999) John Hudson
(2000) Lowry Maclean
(2001) John Hart
(2002) John Pratt
(2003) David Grove
(2004) Ian Squires
(2005) Simon Topman
(2006) John Crabtree

(2007) Rod Ackrill