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The Philological Society.

Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities

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Previous officers 132

  1. Prof Dr Frans Plank 2025-2025 Director View profile
  2. Professor James Peter Clackson 2025-2025 Director View profile
  3. Dr Krishnan Jesse Ram-Prasad 2023-2025 Director View profile
  4. Prof Nancy Chongo Kula 2021-2024 Director View profile
  5. Dr Patrick George Honeybone 2021-2025 Director View profile
  6. Prof Klaus Friedrich Rudolf Fischer 2021-2025 Director View profile
  7. Graham Pointon 2020-2025 Director View profile
  8. Joshua James Booth 2020-2024 Director View profile
  9. Dr Sam Hellmuth 2020-2024 Director View profile
  10. Professor Martin David Maiden 2020-2024 Director View profile
  11. Dr Justyna Anna Robinson 2019-2023 Director View profile
  12. Prof Louise Sylvester 2019-2023 Director View profile
  13. Dr Simon James Pulleyn 2019-2022 Director View profile
  14. Dr Robin Meyer 2019-2023 Director View profile
  15. Dr Sam Wolfe 2019-2023 Director View profile
  16. Dr Patrick Stiles 2018-2022 Director View profile
  17. Prof Frans Plank 2018-2022 Director View profile
  18. Dr David Willis 2017-2021 Director View profile
  19. Prof Eleanor Dickey 2017-2021 Director View profile
  20. Prof Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen 2017-2021 Director View profile
  21. Dr Catherine Mary Macrobert 2017-2021 Director View profile
  22. Dr Sheila Watts 2016-2021 Director View profile
  23. Dr Laura Wright 2016-2020 Director View profile
  24. Dr Seth Mehl 2016-2020 Director View profile
  25. Professor Karen Corrigan 2016-2020 Director View profile
  26. Professor Janet Watson 2015-2019 Director View profile
  27. Dr Melanie Green 2015-2025 Director View profile
  28. Professor Bas Aarts 2015-2019 Director View profile
  29. Professor David Denison 2015-2019 Director View profile
  30. Paul Rowlett 2014-2016 Director View profile
  31. Professor Bjarke Max Frellesvig 2014-2018 Director View profile
  32. Dr George Lee Walkden 2014-2017 Director View profile
  33. Professor Peter Kenneth Austin 2014-2022 Director View profile
  34. Dr CéCile De Cat 2013-2019 Director View profile
  35. Dr Nicola Jane Mclelland 2013-2019 Director View profile
  36. Dr Richard Ashdowne 2013-2024 Director View profile
  37. Geoffrey Khan 2011-2013 Director View profile
  38. Rosanna Sornicola 2011-2015 Director View profile
  39. Paul Russell 2011-2014 Director View profile
  40. Prof Sylvia Adamson 2011-2025 Director View profile
  41. Dr Sandra Paoli 2010-2014 Director View profile
  42. Dr Stephen Charles Colvin 2010-2022 Director View profile
  43. Dr Philomen Probert 2010-2013 Director View profile
  44. Professor Kersti Elisabet Borjars 2009-2013 Director View profile
  45. Professor Maggie Tallerman 2009-2014 Director View profile
  46. Professor Mary Dalrymple 2009-2013 Director View profile
  47. Professor Anthony Rowland Warner 2009-2013 Director View profile
  48. Dr Philip Durkin 2008-2014 Director View profile
  49. Professor Ruth Kempson 2008-2017 Director View profile
  50. Patrick George Honeybone 2008-2013 Director View profile
  51. Professor Heinz Joachim Giegerich 2006-2011 Director View profile
  52. Dr John Howard Wright Penney 2006-2017 Director View profile
  53. Professor Yan Huang 2006-2009 Director View profile
  54. Dr Mari Catrin Jones 2005-2011 Director View profile
  55. Dr James Peter Blevins 2005-2013 Director View profile
  56. Prof Andreas Willi 2005-2010 Director View profile
  57. Professor Rodney Bernard Kenneth Sampson 2005-2011 Director View profile
  58. Professor Andrew Robert Linn 2004-2014 Director View profile
  59. Dr Jon Felleter 2004-2010 Director View profile
  60. Prof Sally Johnson 2004-2009 Director View profile
  61. Heycock, Caroline Bridget, Doctor 2003-2009 Director View profile
  62. Professor Anna Maria Siewierska 2003-2009 Director View profile
  63. Professor Anders Holmberg 2003-2009 Director View profile
  64. Beal, Joan Christine, Doctor 2002-2007 Director View profile
  65. Professor Ian Gareth Roberts 2002-2007 Director View profile
  66. Dr David William Edward Willis 2002-2009 Director View profile
  67. Dr Adam Noel Ledgeway 2001-2006 Director View profile
  68. Professor Margaret Mair Parry 2001-2006 Director View profile
  69. Professor April Mary Scott Mcmahon 2001-2007 Director View profile
  70. Dr David James Adger 2001-2006 Director View profile
  71. John Charles Smith 2000-2006 Director View profile
  72. Dr Michael Benjamin Helyer Rampton 2000-2005 Director View profile
  73. Dr Philip Nicholas Roddy Durkin 2000-2005 Director View profile
  74. Professor Geoffrey Charles Horrocks 2000-2005 Director View profile
  75. Professor Robert Lawrence Trask 1999-2004 Director View profile
  76. Andrew John Spencer 1999-2004 Director View profile
  77. Dr Edward Keith Brown 1998-2005 Director View profile
  78. Dr Torsten Meissner 1998-2002 Director View profile
  79. Professor John E Joseph 1998-2003 Director View profile
  80. Professor John Lewis Flood 1998-2004 Director View profile
  81. Professor Geoffrey Neil Leech 1997-1999 Director View profile
  82. Professor Patrick Sims Williams 1997-2020 Director View profile
  83. Professor William Jervis Jones 1997-2001 Director View profile
  84. Professor Jennifer Lilian Cheshire 1997-2002 Director View profile
  85. Roca, Ignacio Martinez, Doctor 1997-2002 Director View profile
  86. Ronald Eaton Asher 1996-2001 Director View profile
  87. Martin David Maiden 1996-2000 Director View profile
  88. Vivien Anne Law 1996-2000 Director View profile
  89. Dr Gerald Charles Stone 1996-2000 Director View profile
  90. Professor David Richard Langslow 1995-1999 Director View profile
  91. Professor Richard Milne Hogg 1994-1998 Director View profile
  92. Katrina Anne Hayward 1994-1998 Director View profile
  93. Professor Paul Salmon 1994-1996 Director View profile
  94. Professor John David Michael Henry Laver 1994-1998 Director View profile
  95. Professor John Nigel Green 1993-1997 Director View profile
  96. Professor Robert George Gilbert Coleman 1993-1998 Director View profile
  97. Professor Greville George Corbett 1993-1998 Director View profile
  98. Professor Theodora Bynon 1993-1997 Director View profile
  99. Christopher Jon Wells 1992-1997 Director View profile
  100. Professor Jacques Durand 1992-1996 Director View profile
  101. Professor Guilio Lepschy 1992-1996 Director View profile
  102. Dr David Francis Cram 1992-1996 Director View profile
  103. Peter Hugoe Matthews 1991-2023 Director View profile
  104. Frank Robert Palmer 1991-2019 Director View profile
  105. Prof Sir John Lyons 2020 Director View profile
  106. Jean Margaret Aitchison 1996 Director View profile
  107. Prof Anna Morpurgo Davies 2014 Director View profile
  108. Prof William Sidney Allen 2004 Director View profile
  109. Prof Eric Charles Fudge 1993 Director View profile
  110. Dr Vivien Anne Law 1995 Director View profile
  111. Dr Ilya Gershevitch 2001 Director View profile
  112. Prof Wilem Haas 1997 Director View profile
  113. Prof Rebecca Posmer 1993 Director View profile
  114. Stephen John Harlow 1995 Director View profile
  115. Dr Max Woodfield Wheeler 1999 Director View profile
  116. Prof Neilson Voyne Smith 1997 Director View profile
  117. Prof Gillian Brown 1993 Director View profile
  118. Dr Clive Gouglas Holes 1995 Director View profile
  119. Prof Robert Henry Robins 2000 Director View profile
  120. Sir Martin Best Harris 1993 Director View profile
  121. Prof Martin Durrell 2018 Director View profile
  122. Prof Harold Walter Bailey 1996 Director View profile
  123. Prof John Christopher Wells 1995 Director View profile
  124. Dr Sylvia May Adamson 1993 Director View profile
  125. Professor Paul Russell 2024-2024 Secretary View profile
  126. Professor Klaus Friedrich Rudolf Fischer 2015-2021 Secretary View profile
  127. Dr Paul Russell 2011-2015 Secretary View profile
  128. Dr Martin Orwin 2010-2018 Secretary View profile
  129. Dr Justin William Watkins 2004-2005 Secretary View profile
  130. Dr Lutz Marten 2002-2010 Secretary View profile
  131. Dr Andrew Simpson 2001-2002 Secretary View profile
  132. Professor Richard John Hayward 1991-2003 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities
Incorporated
02/01/1879
Registered office
Holmfirth
Also a registered charity
The Philological Society
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

26 directors on the board

7.3y median 4.1y
average tenure
34.2y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (24)

Portfolio (2)

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Tech and media 2

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00012722
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Accounts next due
30/09/2027
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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