Below are directors of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with date of appointment. Director of the Laboratory 1801 Humphry Davy 1825 Michael Faraday 1867 John Tyndall 1887 James Dewar Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory 1896 James Dewar 1896 Lord Rayleigh 1923 William Bragg 1942 Henry Hallett Dale 1946 Eric Rideal 1950 Edward Andrade 1954 Lawrence Bragg 1998 Richard Catlow 2008 Quentin Pankhurst Director 1965 William Lawrence Bragg 1966 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham 1986 David Philips (acting) 1986 John Meurig Thomas 1991 Peter Day 1998 Susan Adele, Baroness Greenfield of Ot Moor 2017 Sarah Harper 2018 Shaun Fitzgerald 2022 Katherine Mathieson External links Management of the Royal Institution Royal Institution, Directors Royal Institution