| Presidents | |||
| Robert Noble RSA | 1891 – 1894 | ||
| R. B. Nisbet RSA RI | 1894 – 1897 | ||
| R. Duddingston Herdman | 1897 – 1898 | ||
| James Cadenhead | 1898 – 1899 | ||
| J. Coutts Michie RSA | 1899 – 1900 | ||
| Charles H. Mackie | 1900 – 1901 | ||
| Robert Burns ARSA | 1901 – 1902 | ||
| and | 1924 – 1927 | ||
| Willian Robson | 1900 – 1901 | ||
| James Riddel ARSA | 1903 – 1904 | ||
| J. Campbell Mitchell ARSA | 1904 – 1905 | ||
| J.A. Ford | 1905 – 1906 | ||
| and | 1914 – 1915 | ||
| W. Marshall Brown RSA RSW | 1906 – 1907 | ||
| Mason Hunter ARSA RSW | 1907 – 1908 | ||
| W.M. Frazer RSA | 1908 – 1909 | ||
| Graham Glen | 1909 – 1910 | ||
| Robert Hope RSA | 1910 – 1911 | ||
| Captain A E Borthwick RSA PRSW ARE | 1911 – 1913 | ||
| and 1921 – 1924 | and | 1921 – 1924 | |
| David Alison RSA | 1913 – 1914 | ||
| Robert Home | 1915 – 1918 | ||
| J. Murray Thomson ARSA RSW | 1918 – 1919 | ||
| Stanley Cursiter OBE RSA RSW | 1918 – 1921 | ||
| WC Crawford | 1927 – 1930 | ||
| W. Mervyn Glass ARSA | 1930 – 1933 | ||
| William McTaggart ARSA | 1933 – 1936 | ||
| A. Bruce Thomson ARSA | 1936 – 1937 | ||
| Donald Moodie ARSA | 1937 – 1942 | ||
| Captain C. d’O Pilkington Jackson NRD | 1942 – 1946 | ||
| T. Elder Dickson PhD FRSA | 1946 – 1948 | ||
| Colin Thoms | 1949 – 1951 | ||
| Healey Hislop | 1952 – 1953 | ||
| William H Geissler RSW | 1954 – 1957 | ||
| James WH Cumming | 1958 – 1960 | ||
| David AR Michie | 1961 – 1962 | ||
| Edward A Gage | 1963 – 1966 | ||
| David McClure ARSA RSW | 1967 – 1969 | ||
| Robert Callender | 1970 – 1972 | ||
| and | 1975 – 1976 | ||
| John Busby | 1973 – 1975 | ||
| Archie Brennan | 1977 – 1978 | ||
| James Fairgrieve ARSA RSW | 1978 – 1980 | ||
| Elizabeth Ogilvie | 1980 – 1982 | ||
| Barbara Rae | 1982 – 1983 | ||
| William Gillon | 1983 – 1986 | ||
| George Wylie ARSA | 1986 – 1989 | ||
| Reinhard Behrens | 1990 – 1992 | ||
| Lys Hansen | 1993 – 1995 | ||
| Gwenyth Leech | 1996 – 1998 | ||
| John Hunter | 1998 | ||
| Katayoun Dowlatshahi | 1999 – 2000 | ||
| Charmian Pollok | 2001 – 2002 | ||
| Kate Downie | 2003 – 2005 | ||
| Elaine Shemilt | 2006– 2008 | ||
| Christopher Wood RSW | 2008 – 2011 | ||
| Louise Ritchie | 2011 – 2013 | ||
| Gayle Nelson | 2013 – 2017 | ||
| Sharon Quigley | 2017 – Present | ||
| List of Secretaries | |||
| Robert H. Christie | 1892 – 1917 | ||
| Alfred William Lowe | 1918 – 1923 | ||
| Robert Galloway | 1924 – 1928 | ||
| James A Walker | 1929 – 1946 | ||
| T. Graham Salmon | 1947 – 1960 | ||
| John W. Wightman | 1961 – 1968 | ||
| H.J.S. Henderson | 1969 – 1979 | ||
| W.J.C. Henderson | 1980 – 1981 | ||
| Sheila Donald | 1982 – 1983 | ||
| Marilyn A. Jeffcoat | 1984 – 1990 | ||
| Anne M. Wishart | 1991 –1996 | ||
| Susan Cornish | 1996 – 2003 | ||
| Joanne Soroka | 2003 – 2006 | ||
| Noreen Sharkey Paisley | 2006 – 2011 | ||
| Julia Douglas | 2011 – 2016 | Lynne Mackenzie | 2016 – Present |
