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Honorary Members listed by year:

1828 John Galt *
James Montgomery *
1829 William Motherwell *
William Tennant *
Rev David Landsborough *
James Stirrat *
Allan Cunningham *
1830 Ten other nominees *
1833 (Not an hon. member: Charles Lockhart *)
1836 Sir James Shaw *
1837 13th Earl of Eglinton & Winton *
1838/39/45 Six other nominees *
1840 Major James Glencairn Burns *
1846 Patrick Maxwell *
Alex Smart *
Thomas C Latto *
1851 William Howitt *
Dr Charles Mackay *
Charles Dickens *
1854 W Edmondstoune Aytoun *
William Makepeace Thackeray *
Archibald T Boyle *
Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay *
Benjamin Disraeli *
Alexander Smith *
Bulwer Lytton *
1863 14th Earl of Eglinton & Winton *
Henry Glassford Bell *
Thomas Carlyle *
Alfred Tennyson *
Samuel Lover *
1868 Theodore Martin *
Lord Ardmillan *
Sir Arthur Helps *
Prof. J S Blackie *
David Masson *
Lord Stanley *
1869 Charles Kingsley *
Henry Kingsley
Sir Norman Macleod
P Hately Waddell
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
General Giuseppe Garibaldi *
1870 David Dunbar *
Karl Blind *
Robert Browning
1871 William Jack
1872 Edwin Jenkins
1874 Sir Bartle Frere *
1875 James McKie
Rev. George Gilfillan
1880 Sir James Salmon
1881 John White
1886 Earl of Rosebery
Dr Rob. Morris
1887 Sir J Henry B Irving
Sir William Muir
Robert William Cochran-Patrick
1888 William Black
David Christie Murray
1889 Andrew Lang
Walter Besant
1890 A J Balfour (Viscount Traprain) *
James A Froude
1892 J M Barrie
Thomas Hardy
Alfred Austin
1893 Leslie Stephen
Augustine Birrell
Henry Craik
John Speirs
1894 Sir Donald Matheson
Lord Roberts
John Veitch
William Morris
John Nichol
1895 Samuel Rutherford Crockett
1896 Alexander Longmuir
1897 Lord Kelvin
1898 Hall Caine
Lord Wolseley
1899 Sir Alexander C Mackenzie
Sir Archibald Hunter
Rev. Alfred Ainger *
Lord Balfour of Burleigh
1900 Francis C Burnand
The Marquis of Dufferin & Ava
Rudyard Kipling
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1901 John Tenniel
7th Earl of Hopetoun
1902 Lord Milner
1904 Andrew Carnegie
1906 Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1907 Lord Young
James Bryce
Lord Loreburn
1908 Theodore Roosevelt
Earl of Cromer
George Bernard Shaw
1909 Sir Donald McAlister

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1910 Sir George B S Douglas
1911 Sir Herbert Maxwell of Monreith
1912 Lord Haldane
1913 D T Holmes
1914 Robert Bridges
1918 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
1919 Admiral Sir David Beatty
David Lloyd George
Woodrow Wilson
Marshal Foch
1920 Andrew Fisher
Prof. Robert S Rait
1921 Andrew Bonar Law
Sir Andrew Duncan
1922 Duncan McNaught
Robert Bruce Mantell
Sir David Paulin
1923 Viscount Younger *
Dr W A Craigie
Col. John Buchan
1924 Sir Frederick Macmillan
Dr J Pittendrigh Macgillivray
1925 Sir Robert Bruce
Prof. Alexander Mair
1926 R F Longmuir
Provost R M Hogg
Lord Stonehaven
1927 Stanley Baldwin
Sir James Crichton Browne
1928 Lord Irwin
Col. Walter Scott
1930 Sir Oliver Lodge
Jan Smuts
1931 John Masefield
James Brown
1932 Rev. Henry Ranken
Harry Lumsden
1935 Macmillan
1936 Prof. Adolphus A Jack
Sir Harry McGowan
1937 Prof. Robert Dewar
1938 Neville Chamberlain
Harry Lauder
1939 John White
Frederick Niven
1940 Razcynski
1941 John N Hall
1946 Field Marshal Montgomery
Thomas Johnston
Winston Churchill
1947 Dwight D Eisenhower
1948 James Bridie
James Barr
1949 Ian Whyte
1950 A B McDonald
Lord John Boyd Orr
1951 Sir Hector Hetherington
1952 Prof. David Daiches
1953 Sir Alexander Fleming
Sir James Ferguson
Col Bernard Ferguson
1954 Sir John Hunt
1955 Dr Roger Bannister
Lord Bilsland
1956 Anthony Eden
Douglas Bader
1957 17th Earl of Eglinton
Earl Mountbatten of Burma
1958 Sir Compton Mackenzie
Lord Strathclyde
Harold Macmillan
1959 Lord Cameron
William Phillips
Lord Douglas of Kirtleside
Sir Vivian E Fuchs
Norval Murray
1960 S Marshak
Margaret M Hogg
John Grierson
Tom J Honeyman
Albert Schweitzer
1961 Commander Sir Stephen King Hall
1962 A Bernard Lovell
Prof J De Lancey Ferguson
1963 Christopher Murray Grieve
('Hugh MacDiarmid') *
W D Cocker *
1964 Sir Alexander Gibson
William Ross
1965 Sir Alex Douglas-Home
Rev James R Dow
Harold Wilson
1966 Duncan Macrae
Maurice Lindsay *
1967 Thomas W Dalgleish *
F C Sillar
Clement Wilson
Edward Odling
Yehudi Menuhin
1968 Sir Francis Chichester
Sir Thomas Moore

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1969 Prof. William Barclay
James Kinsley
1970 Lord Reith of Stonehaven
1971 Lord Macleod of Fuinary
James MacPhail
Rt Hon William Ross
1972 Rev. Alex Macara
Edward Heath
Lord Dalkeith
Herr Willy Brandt
1974 Winifred Ewing
Wendy Wood
1975 David Murison
Alex. MacMillan
1976 Nigel Tranter
Prof. Ian A Gordon
G Ross Roy
Dr Robert B Taylor
1977 Sir John Betjeman
Jane Burgoyne
James Callaghan
Maurice Roeves
Professor Toshio Namba
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Henry A Kissinger
1979 Prof. Christiaan N Barnard *
Ian Douglas Smith *
Don Whyte *
Andrew Hood
1980 Yvonne Helen Stevenson
Mohamed Anwar El Sadat
Margaret Thatcher
1981 Harald R Leslie, Lord Birsay
Jack Nicklaus
J C Stormonth Darling
1982 William Lockhart
1983 Johnny Beattie
1984 William Golding *
R L C Lorimer *
1985 John Prebble
'Manny' Shinwell
1986 George Mackay Brown *
1987 Jack Webster *
Ted Hughes *
1988 Naomi Mitchison *
1989 Hamish Macinnes *
James Loughran *
Sam K Gaw *
Sir Sean Connery *
1990 Kenneth McKellar
William McIlvanney
1991 Bill McLaren
1992 John Major
Terry Waite
1994 David Smith *
1995 Iain Crichton Smith *
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
1996 Tony Harrison *
Prof. Tom Sutherland *
Sir A W ('Sandy') Macara *
1997 John Inglis
Earl of Elgin & Kincardine
1998 Jackie Stewart
Dr Anne Lorne Gillies
Rt Hon Tony Blair
1999 Sir Jimmy Shand
John Mason
2000 Donald Dewar
Andrew Motion *
Seamus Heaney *
Arnold Palmer
2001 Jim Telfer
Michael Martin
J J Caldwell
2002 Tony Benn
Henry McLeish
Craig Brown
Eric Caldow
2003 Rhona Martin & Olympic Curling Team
Adam McNaughton
David Steel
2004 Willie Young *
Jack McConnell
2005 Robert Fisk *
2006 Ian Rankin *
2007 William Cowan
Michael Marra
George MacDonald Fraser
2008 James Wilson, OBE
Phil Cunningham, MBE
Rt Hon Gordon Brown
Rt Hon Alex Salmond
2009 Andrew O'Hagan
Janet Elsie-May Coom
2009 Nov.: Homecoming Finale
Giovanni Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Sturgeon
Baroness Ford of Cunninghame
Eddi Reader
Janice Galloway
Sir Tom McKillop
Viscount Weir
Graeme Obree
2010 Tim Smit
Sir Christopher Hoy
Carol Ann Duffy