2012
Sir Idris Pearce
Edmund de Waal

2011
Sheilagh Brown
Sandy Nairne
John Thackara

2010
Ken Garland
Colin McDowell
Matilda McQuaid

2009
Elsbeth Juda
Jan Svankmajer
Michael Wolff

2008
Tord Boontje
David Constantine
Julia Peyton-Jones
Oliver Stocken

2007
David Adjaye
Ian Hay Davison
Chris Smith
Deyan Sudjic

2006
Paola Antonelli
Brian Godbold
Mark Haworth-Booth
Wendy Ramshaw
Matthew Slotover

2005
Basil H Alkazzi
Charles Jencks
Richard Seymour
Professor Ann Sutton

2004
Thomas Heatherwick
David Hillman
Janet Ritterman

2003
Professor Peter Cook
John Drane
Sir Brian Fender
Tatjana Marsden

2002
Alice Rawsthorn
Philip Treacy
Daniel Weil

2001
Gavin Bocquet
Margaret Calvert
Gillian Crampton Smith
Paul Langford
Helen Robinson

2000
Norman Ackroyd
Professor David Hamilton
Bryan Robertson

1999
John Bellany
Lucienne Day
Suzy Menkes-Spanier
Joseph Studholme

1998
Graham Hughes
Rosamind Julius

1997
Sir Michael Butler
Nick Butler
David Liddle
Fiona MacCarthy

1996
Gillian Ayres
Martin Hunt
Anthony Jones
Vico Magistretti
Sir Nicholas Serota

1995
David Carter
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
Elizabeth Fritsch
Bryan Kneale

1994
Ron Carter
Angela Flowers
Lady Hamlyn

1993
Alberto Alessi
Patrick Caulfield
Sir Edmund Happold
Derek Jarman
Leslie Waddington

1992
Sir Eric Ash
Frank Guille
Professor John Hedgecoe
Bill Moggridge
Sir Alastair Pilkington
Lord Rothschild
Vivienne Westwood
Richard Williams

1991
Alan Davie
Robin Day
Sir Nicholas Goodison
Mary Quant
Sir Denis Rooke
David Sylvester
Robin Wade

1990
Terence Altham
Sir Alan Bowness
Carl Giles
Robert Hughes
Professor Phillip King
Lord Queensberry
Sir Jocelyn Stevens

1989
Alan Fletcher
Bob Godfrey
Paula Rego
Alexander Reid
Michael Rothenstein
Michael Samuelson

1988
Professor Quentin Blake
Joanne Brogden
Fleur Cowles
George Davies
John Halas
F H K Henrion
Sir Denis Mahon

1987
Lord Brooke
Len Deighton
Sir John Egan
Sir Hugh Ford
James Gardner
The Rt Hon The Earl of Gowrie
David Kindersley
Enid Marx
John Piper

1986
G B R Feilden
The Earl of Snowdon
Charles Suckling
Julian Trevelyan
Dame Margaret Weston

1985
Sir Roger de Grey
Muriel Pemberton
Sir David Piper
David Pye
Sir Ridley Scott

1984
HRH The Duke of Gloucester
Philip Popham
Carel Weight

1983
Lord Flowers
Sir Roy Strong

1982
Peter Byrom

1981
Robert Goodden
Professor Richard Guyatt

1980
Lady Margaret Casson
Sir Huw Wheldon

1979
Sir Hugh Casson

1978
Lord Esher

1976
John Crittall
Dosia Verney

1974
Lord Howard of Henderskelfe

1973
Sir Michael Cary

1972
Lord Reilly

1971
Sir Robin Darwin
Milner Gray
Stewart Mason

1970
Edgar Anstey
Lord Goodman
Barbara Hepworth

1969
Sir Michael Balcon
Hans P Juda
J R P Moon

1968
Lord Jackson of Burnley
Alfred Whitaker

1967
Sir Anthony Lousada

1966
Sir Philip Hendy
Sir Barnes Wallis

1965
Edward Le Bas
Sir Roland Penrose

1964
E M Forster
Lord Menuhin

1963
Sir William Coldstream

1962
Rt Hon The Viscount Eccles
Sir Herbert Read

1961
Lord Redcliffe-Maud
Sir Duncan Oppenheim

1960
Sir Gordon Russell

1959
Augustus John

1958
Arthur A Houghton, Jr

1956
Sir Colin Anderson
Sir Jacob Epstein
Hon Josiah Wedgwood

1955
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

1954
Lord Clark of Saltwood

1952
P H Jowett
Henry Moore

1950
Alvar Aalto
Stanley Morison
Sir Charles Tennyson