Past Recipients - Society Medal and Lecture
| Year | Recipient |
| 2003 | Sir David P Lane |
| 2001 | Sir John Cadogan |
| 1999 | K E Davies |
| 1997 | Sir Alec Jeffreys |
| 1995 | Sir Tom Blundell |
| 1993 | G W Gray |
| 1991 | Lord Porter |
| 1989 | Sydney Andrew |
| 1987 | C H Reece |
| 1985 | G H Fairtlough |
| 1983 | G W Cooke |
| 1981 | H F W Taylor |
| 1979 | R Malpas |
| 1977 | Sir Norman Rowntree |
| 1975 | F L Rose |
| 1973 | G H Beeby |
| 1971 | D W Kent-Jones |
| 1969 | F Morton |
| 1967 | L Hynes |
| 1965 | Sir James Taylor |
| 1963 | C H Greenewalt |
| 1961 | Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
| 1959 | F H Carr |
| 1957 | W J Worboys |
| 1955 | Sir Eric Rideal |
| 1953 | L A Jordan |
| 1951 | E C Dodds |
| 1949 | F D Snell |
| 1947 | R T Colgate |
| 1945 | Viscount Leverhulme |
| 1943 | Leslie Lampitt |
| 1941 | Sir Robert Pickard |
| 1939 | Sir Gilbert Morgan |
| 1937 | G G Henderson |
| 1935 | E F Armstrong |
| 1933 | W A Bone |
| 1931 | H Levinstein |
| 1929 | Sir Richard Threlfall |
| 1927 | G P Pollit |
| 1925 | W F Reid |
| 1923 | C C Carpenter |
| 1920 | P Kestner |
| 1918 | Sir James Dewar |
| 1916 | C F Cross |
| 1914 | Sir Henry Roscoe |
| 1912 | Sir William Crookes |
| 1910 | T Tyrer |
| 1908 | Sir Andrew Noble |
| 1906 | L Mond |
| 1904 | I Remsen |
| 1902 | J W Swan |
| 1900 | E Schunck |
| 1898 | W H Perkin |
| 1896 | J Glover |
