Political History 1927 Frederick George Kenyon — Museums and National Life 1928 D. M. S. Watson — Palaeontology and the Evolution of Man 1929 Sir John William Fortescue — The Vicissitudes of Organized Power 1930s 1930 Winston Churchill — Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem 1931 John Galsworthy — The Creation of Character in Literature 1932 Berkley Moynihan — The Advance of Medicine 1933 Henry Hadow — The Place of Music among the Arts 1934 William Rothenstein — Form and content in English Painting 1935 Gilbert Murray — Then and Now 1936 Donald Francis Tovey — Normality and Freedom in Music 1937 Harley Granville-Barker — On Poetry in Drama 1938 Lord Robert Cecil — Peace and Pacifism 1939 Laurence Binyon — Art and freedom 1940s 1940 Edouard Herriot, lecture not delivered 1941 William Hailey — The position of colonies in a British commonwealth of nations 1942 Norman H. Baynes — Intellectual liberty and totalitarian claims 1943 Julian Huxley — Evolutionary Ethics (50 years after his grandfather gave the lecture) 1944 G. M. Young — Mr Gladstone 1945 André Siegfried — Characteristics and Limits of our Western Civilization 1946 John Anderson — The machinery of government 1947 Lord Samuel — Creative Man 1948 Lord Brabazon of Tara — Forty years of flight 1949 Claud Schuster — Mountaineering 1950s 1950 John Cockcroft — The development and future of nuclear energy 1951 Maurice Hankey — The science and art of government 1952 Lewis Bernstein Namier — Monarchy and the party system 1953 Viscount Simon — Crown and Commonwealth 1954 Kenneth Clark — Moments of Vision 1955 Albert Richardson — The significance of the fine arts 1956 Thomas Beecham — John Fletcher 1957 Ronald Knox — On English translation 1958 Edward Bridges — The State and the Arts 1959 Lord Denning — From Precedent to Precedent 1960s 1960 Edgar Douglas Adrian — Factors in mental evolution 1961 Vincent Massey — Canadians and Their Commonwealth 1962 Cyril Radcliffe — Mountstuart Elphinstone 1963 Violet Bonham Carter — The impact of personality in politics (45 years after her father gave the lecture) 1964 Harold Hartley — Man and Nature 1965 Noel Annan — The Disintegration of an Old Culture 1966 Maurice Bowra — A case for humane learning 1967 Rab Butler — The Difficult Art of Autobiography 1968 Peter Medawar — Science and Literature 1969 Lord Holford — A World of Room 1970s 1970 Isaiah Berlin —