| S.No | Year | W.Bro. |
| 1 | 1862 | J.R.Magreth |
| 2 | 1863 | J.R.Magreth |
| 3 | 1864 | B.I.Gordon |
| 4 | 1865 | H.J.Shaw |
| 5 | 1866 | H.T.Rogers |
| 6 | 1866 | A.J.Filgate |
| 7 | 1867 | W.H.Clarke |
| 8 | 1868 | B.D.Gordon |
| 9 | 1869 | J.H.P.Anderson |
| 10 | 1870 | R.C.W.Champbell |
| 11 | 1871 | E.A.Gibbons |
| 12 | 1872 | J.W.Brothistle |
| 13 | 1873 | B.Cunliffee |
| 14 | 1874 | A.M.Rawlins |
| 15 | 1875 | G.Lesile |
| 16 | 1876 | D.P.King |
| 17 | 1877 | W.P.Carson |
| 18 | 1878 | R.H.Cunliffe |
| 19 | 1879 | R.W.Bro.O’Gardy |
| 20 | 1880 | W.D.Gunn |
| 21 | 1881 | W.G.Rose |
| 22 | 1882 | C.M.J.Moore |
| 23 | 1883 | H.W. Smith |
| 24 | 1884 | H.W.Smith |
| 25 | 1885 | R.R.E.Drake-Brock-man |
| 26 | 1886 | G.Blazey |
| 27 | 1887 | G.Blazey |
| 28 | 1888 | A.Hoise |
| 29 | 1889 | J.H.Webster |
| 30 | 1890 | J.A.F.Colde |
| 31 | 1891 | G.E.Hodges |
| 32 | 1892 | R.W.Lyons |
| 33 | 1893 | J.Temole |
| 34 | 1894 | J.Wisken |
| 35 | 1895 | J.Graham |
| 36 | 1896 | D.Kilpatrick |
| 37 | 1897 | C.Kilpatrick |
| 38 | 1898 | C.H.M.Hitchens |
| 39 | 1899 | J.Temole |
| 40 | 1900 | E.M.Dalma |
| 41 | 1901 | J.Temole |
| 42 | 1902 | J.Temole |
| 43 | 1903 | S.Granshaw |
| 44 | 1904 | N.Chatterjee |
| 45 | 1905 | C.H.Parsons |
| 46 | 1906 | C.F.Deane |
| 47 | 1907 | C.F.Cavanagh |
| 48 | 1908 | J.H.Barket |
| 49 | 1909 | H.P.Williams |
| 50 | 1910 | W.H.Murch |
| 51 | 1911 | J.Webster |
| 52 | 1912 | M.SrinivasaMudaliar |
| 53 | 1913 | G.Devasahayam |
| 54 | 1914 | G.E.Farlowe |
| 55 | 1915 | V.S.Gananprakasam |
| 56 | 1916 | K.R.SeetharamaIyer |
| 57 | 1917 | J.Bryant |
| 58 | 1918 | Raja of Venkatagiri |
| 59 | 1919 | S.A.K.Jeelani Sahib |
| 60 | 1920 | T.C.AdikesasvaluPillai |
| 61 | 1921 | V.ThiruvengadathanChetty |
| 62 | 1922 | G.R.Auston |
| 63 | 1923 | S.V.Devadasan |
| 64 | 1924 | M.SavarimuthuPillai |
| 65 | 1925 | A.H.Chowriyappah |
| 66 | 1926 | S.K.AbdulRazak Sahib |
| 67 | 1927 | E.A.Baynes |
| 68 | 1928 | W.H.Terry |
| 69 | 1929 | S.W.Samuel |
| 70 | 1930 | R.D.Smith |
| 71 | 1931 | V.A.MuthanaThevar |
| 72 | 1932 | G.J.Benjamin |
| 73 | 1933 | N.Rajagopalan |
| 74 | 1934 | V.J.R.Rajagopalan |
| 75 | 1935 | T.G.DamodharaMudaliar |
| 76 | 1936 | T.S.Varadharajan |
| 77 | 1937 | M.J.santhanakrishna Naidu |
| 78 | 1938 | R.V.KrishnaIyer |
| 79 | 1939 | G.A.Daniel |
| 80 | 1940 | M.V.Mannasah |
| 81 | 1941 | T.N.S.Raghavachari |
| 82 | 1942 | T.A.Sreenivasan |
| 83 | 1943 | S.Soundarajan |
| 84 | 1944 | V.Krishnamurti |
| 85 | 1945 | T.M.NarayanasamiPillai |
| 86 | 1946 | K.G.Veeraragavan |
| 87 | 1947 | N.Rangachari |
| 88 | 1948 | V.T.Srinivasaraghavan |
| 89 | 1949 | JitenBanerji |
| 90 | 1950 | P.N. Sundarajan |
| 91 | 1951 | P.N.S. Raman |
| 92 | 1952 | R.V.KrishnaIyer |
| 93 | 1953 | Dinsha K. Tehrano |
| 94 | 1954 | S.P.S. Rajan |
| 95 | 1955 | V. Kunjithapatham |
| 96 | 1956 | S.J. Narasimhan |
| 97 | 1957 | P.A. Krishnaswami |
| 98 | 1958 | K.S. Srinivasan |
| 99 | 1959 | E.W.W. King |
| 100 | 1960 | M.K. Sreedharan |
| 101 | 1961 | T.S. Chintamani |
| 102 | 1962 | M.Rajagopalan |
| 103 | 1963 | A.Sarangapani |
| 104 | 1964 | S.K.Ramanujan |
| 105 | 1965 | G.T. Watts |
| 106 | 1966 | V.R. Selvaraj |
| 107 | 1967 | K.D. Carter |
| 108 | 1968 | R.S.D Mont |
| 109 | 1969 | T.K. Doraiswami |
| 110 | 1970 | C.N. Ramanujam |
| 111 | 1971 | V.Somasundaram |
| 112 | 1972 | V.Dorairaj |
| 113 | 1973 | S.Ramachandran |
| 114 | 1974 | N.P.Sarathy |
| 115 | 1975 | Dr.M.S. Ekamabaram |
| 116 | 1976 | S. Ramaswamy |
| 117 | 1977 | R. Kalidas |
| 118 | 1978 | V.Swaminathan |
| 119 | 1979 | R. Dwarakanath |
| 120 | 1980 | R.Vaidyanadhan |
| 121 | 1981 | N.Sridhar |
| 122 | 1982 | T.K. Ramachandran |
| 123 | 1983 | K.RamaRao |
| 124 | 1984 | Vijay Rangachari |
| 125 | 1985 | M.Janakiram |
| 126 | 1986 | K.Satyendra Kumar |
| 127 | 1987 | S.Krishnan |
| 128 | 1988 | P.Madhusudhan |
| 129 | 1989 | P.Madhusudhan |
| 130 | 1990 | S.Mohan |
| 131 | 1991 | S.S. Prasad |
| 132 | 1992 | R.Sivachandran |
| 133 | 1993 | P.Viswambar |
| 134 | 1994 | G.Sivaramakrishnan |
| 135 | 1995 | M.N. Ramaswamy |
| 136 | 1996 | Abbas M.A. Hajji |
| 137 | 1997 | Mahendra Shah |
| 138 | 1998 | V.S..Kylas |
| 139 | 1999 | K.S.Sankaran |
| 140 | 2000 | K.S..Sreekanth |
| 141 | 2001 | R.Krishnan |
| 142 | 2002 | L.Ramani |
| 143 | 2003 | V.Subbiah |
| 144 | 2004 | N.Meenakshisundaram |
| 145 | 2005 | K.Kasthuri` |
| 146 | 2006 | S.Nandakumar |
| 147 | 2007 | Lt.Col.C.Venkataraman |
| 148 | 2008 | R. Pariarasu |
| 149 | 2009 | V. S. Ramakrishnan |
| 150 | 2010 | D. R. Chandramouli |
| 151 | 2011 | M. Balaganesh |
| 152 | 2012 | R. S. Rajashekaran |
| 153 | 2013 | K.Rangarajan |
| 154 | 2014 | P.Selvaganesh |
| 155 | 2015 | B.Badrinarayanan |
| 156 | 2016 | Venkat Natarajan |
| 157 | 2017 | Arvind Siva Mahadevan |
| 158 | 2018 | Serma Pandiyan |
| 159 | 2019 | Neelakandan Kumar |
| 160 | 2020 | P.Pasupathinathan |
| 161 | 2021 | Mukundan Vijayan |
| 162 | 2022 | Puvvada Srinivas |
| 163 | 2023 | B Badrinarayanan |
| 164 | 2024 | Sampath Dorairajan |