Presidents of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division

• 1876: Sir James Hannen
  James Hannen, Baron Hannen
  James Hannen, Baron Hannen, , English judge, son of a London merchant, was born at Peckham.He was educated at St Paul's School and at Heidelberg University, which was famous as a school of law. Called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1848, he joined the home circuit...
  
  
• 1891: Sir Charles Butt
• 1892: Sir Francis Jeune
  Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier
  Francis Henry Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier GCB, PC, QC , known as Sir Francis Jeune , was a British judge...
  
  
• 1905: Sir Gorell Barnes
• 1909: Sir John Bigham
  John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey
  John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey was a British jurist and politician. After early success as a lawyer, and a less successful spell as a politician, he was appointed a judge, working in commercial law....
  
  
• 1910: Sir Samuel Evans
  Samuel Thomas Evans
  Sir Samuel Thomas Evans GCB PC QC , was a Welsh barrister, judge and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1918: The Lord Sterndale
  William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale
  William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale PC was a British lawyer and judge. He served as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1914 and 1918, as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division between 1918 and 1919 and as Master of the Rolls between 1919 and 1923.-Legal and judicial...
  
  
• 1919: Sir Henry Duke
  Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale
  Henry Edward Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale PC, QC , was a British judge and Conservative politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1916 and 1918.-Background and education:...
  
   (The Lord Merrivale from 1925)
• 1933: Sir Boyd Merriman
  Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman
  Frank Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman PC, KC, OBE, GCVO , often known as Boyd Merriman, was a Conservative Party politician and judge in the United Kingdom.-Education:...
  
   (The Lord Merriman from 1941)
• 1962: Sir Jocelyn Simon
  Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale
  Jocelyn Edward Salis Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, QC, DL, PC known as Jack Simon, was as a Law Lord in the United Kingdom, having been, by turns, a barrister, a commissioned officer in the British Army, a barrister again, a Conservative Party politician, a government minister, and a judge.He...
  
   (The Lord Simon of Glaisdale from 1971)

Presidents of the Family Division

• 1971: Sir George Baker
  George Baker (judge)
  Sir George Gillespie Baker was a British judge. He was President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice from 1971 to 1979....
  
  
• 1979: Sir John Arnold
  John Arnold (judge)
  Sir John Lewis Arnold was a British judge. He was President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice from 1979 to 1988.Educated Wellington College. Served War of 1939–45 in Army -References:...
  
  
• 1988: Sir Stephen Brown
  Stephen Brown (judge)
  Sir Stephen Brown, GBE is a judge. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal and a President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales.-Personal life:...
  
  
• 1999: Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (The Baroness Butler-Sloss from 2006)
• 2005: Sir Mark Potter
  Mark Potter (judge)
  Sir Mark Howard Potter PC is an English judge who was President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales from 7 April 2005 to 5 April 2010.-Education:...
  
  
• 2010: Sir Nicholas Wall
  Nicholas Wall (judge)
  Sir Nicholas Peter Rathbone Wall is an English judge. He was appointed President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales on 13 April 2010....
  
  (from 13 April)