| CHARTER TRUSTEES, 1778- |
| 1778 |
Samuel Phillips, Board President, 1778-1790; 1796-1802 |
1790 |
| 1778 |
John Phillips, Board President, 1791-1794 |
1794 |
| 1778 |
William Phillips, Board President, 1791-1794 |
1802 |
| 1778 |
Oliver Wendell |
1818 |
| 1778 |
John Lowell |
1802 |
| 1778 |
Josiah Stearns |
1781 |
| 1778 |
Elias Smith |
1791 |
| 1778 |
William Symmes |
1795 |
| 1778 |
Jonathan French |
1809 |
| 1778 |
Samuel Phillips, Jr. |
1802 |
| 1778 |
Eliphalet Pearson, Principal; Board President, 1802-1821 |
1826 |
| 1778 |
Nehemiah Abbot |
1808 |
| 1781 |
David Tappan |
1803 |
| 1786 |
Ebenezer Pemberton |
1793 |
| 1791 |
William Phillips, Board President, 1821-1827 |
1827 |
| 1795 |
Jacob Abbot |
1801 |
| 1795 |
Jedidiah Morse |
1826 |
| 1795 |
Mark Newman, Principal |
1836 |
| 1801 |
John Phillips |
1820 |
| 1802 |
Samuel Farrar |
1846 |
| 1802 |
John Phillips |
1823 |
| 1802 |
Josiah Quincy |
1828 |
| 1804 |
Daniel Dana |
1856 |
| 1809 |
Abiel Holmes |
1837 |
| 1810 |
John Adams, Principal |
1833 |
| 1811 |
Samuel Hall Walley |
1848 |
| 1820 |
Justin Edwards, Board President, 1851-1853 |
1853 |
| 1820 |
Jonathan Phillips |
1838 |
| 1823 |
Samuel Hubbard, Board President, 1827-1843 |
1843 |
| 1826 |
John Hubbard Church |
1840 |
| 1826 |
Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner |
1835 |
| 1827 |
William Bostwick Banister |
1837 |
| 1829 |
Jeremiah Evarts |
1837 |
| 1831 |
Samuel Turell Armstrong, Board President, 1844-1850 |
1850 |
| 1833 |
Osgood Johnson, Principal |
1837 |
| 1835 |
Ebenezer Burgess |
1846 |
| 1837 |
Ebenezer Alden |
1881 |
| 1837 |
William Cogswell |
1845 |
| 1838 |
Samuel Harvey Taylor |
1871 |
| 1839 |
Brown Emerson |
1856 |
| 1841 |
Rufus Anderson |
1847 |
| 1844 |
John Aiken, Board President, 1854-1858 |
1863 |
| 1846 |
Willard Child |
1849 |
| 1846 |
Luther Fraseur Dimmick |
1860 |
| 1846 |
William Joseph Hubbard, Board President, 1858-1865 |
1864 |
| 1847 |
Samuel Cram Jackson |
1852 |
| 1848 |
Samuel Hurd Walley |
1850 |
| 1850 |
Daniel Noyes |
1852 |
| 1850 |
Seth Sweetser, Board President, 1865-1878 |
1878 |
| 1851 |
Linus Child |
1870 |
| 1852 |
William Hyde |
1858 |
| 1852 |
John Lord Taylor |
1868 |
| 1856 |
William Augustus Stearns |
1876 |
| 1858 |
Amos Blanchard |
1870 |
| 1858 |
Reuben Atwater Chapman |
1873 |
| 1858 |
Alpheus Hardy, Board President, 1879-1884 |
1885 |
| 1861 |
Daniel Taggart Fiske, Board President, 1885-1899 |
1899 |
| 1863 |
Edward Silas Tobey |
1867 |
| 1866 |
John Kingsbury |
1869 |
| 1867 |
Edward Taylor |
1893 |
| 1868 |
Edmund Kimball Alden |
1882 |
| 1870 |
Peter Smith |
1880 |
| 1870 |
Joshua Wyman Wellman |
1900 |
| 1871 |
Frederic William Tilton |
1873 |
| 1873 |
Cecil Franklin Patch Bancroft, Principal |
1901 |
| 1874 |
Joseph Samuel Ropes |
1897 |
| 1874 |
Thomas Hastings Russell |
1905 |
| 1876 |
Alexander McKenzie |
1912 |
| 1878 |
William Henry Willcox |
1904 |
| 1881 |
Robert Roberts Bishop, Board President, 1900-1903 |
1903 |
| 1881 |
Franklin Carter |
1902 |
| 1885 |
Alpheus Holmes Hardy |
1902 |
| 1886 |
Horace Fairbanks |
1888 |
| 1886 |
James Gardiner Vose |
1908 |
| 1889 |
Rowland Hazard |
1898 |
| 1893 |
Theodore Moody Osborne |
1899 |
| 1899 |
George Brown Knapp |
1919 |
| 1899 |
James Hardy Ropes, Board President, 1929-1933 |
1933 |
| 1901 |
Clarence Morgan |
1935 |
| 1901 |
James Cowan Sawyer |
1939 |
| 1901 |
Charles Orrin Day |
1908 |
| 1902 |
George Harris, Board President, 1904-1910 |
1909 |
| 1902 |
Clifford Herschel Moore |
1931 |
| 1902 |
Alfred Lawrence Ripley, Board President, 1910-1929 |
1943 |
| 1903 |
Alfred Ernest Stearns, Principal/Headmaster |
1933 |
| 1905 |
Henry Lewis Stimson, Board President 1935-1946 |
1946 |
| 1906 |
Charles Lothrop Noyes |
1907 |
| 1907 |
Elias Bullard Bishop, Board President, 1933-1934 |
1934 |
| 1908 |
John Adams Aiken |
1926 |
| 1908 |
Fred Towsley Murphy |
1948 |
| 1910 |
Joseph Parsons |
1923 |
| 1912 |
Frederick Goodrich Crane |
1923 |
| 1920 |
George Bowen Case |
1937 |
| 1923 |
Thomas Cochran |
1936 |
| 1923 |
James Brown Neale |
1943 |
| 1926 |
Ernest Martin Hopkins |
1942 |
| 1933 |
Philip Loring Reed |
1958 |
| 1933 |
Lloyd DeWitt Brace |
1953 |
| 1933 |
Claude Moore Fuess, Headmaster |
1948 |
| 1935 |
Francis Abbot Goodhue |
1958 |
| 1935 |
Abbot Stevens |
1958 |
| 1937 |
Lansing Parmelee Reed |
1937 |
| 1937 |
Henry Wise Hobson, Board President, 1946-1966 |
1966 |
| 1938 |
John Wing Prentiss |
1938 |
| 1938 |
Robert Abbe Gardner |
1956 |
| 1939 |
James Gould |
1949 |
| 1942 |
James Phinney Baxter, 3rd |
1966 |
| 1943 |
William Edwards Stevenson |
1952 |
| 1943 |
Lindsay Bradford |
1955 |
| 1947 |
Chauncey Brewster Garver |
1960 |
| 1948 |
John Peters Stevens Jr., Board President, 1966-1969 |
1969 |
| 1948 |
John Mason Kemper, Headmaster |
1971 |
| 1952 |
Charles Stafford Gage |
1976 |
| 1952 |
Robert Merriman Kimball |
1963 |
| 1953 |
Bromwell Ault |
1972 |
| 1956 |
Sumner Smith |
1960 |
| 1957 |
Frederick Goodrich Crane |
1967 |
| 1958 |
Donald Holman McLean Jr., Board President, 1968-1981 |
1981 |
| 1958 |
John Usher Monro |
1988 |
| 1959 |
Thomas Lee Perkins |
1973 |
| 1960 |
Benjamin Allen Rowland |
1963 |
| 1960 |
Robert Livingston Ireland III |
1990 |
| 1963 |
Stephen Young Hord |
1968 |
| 1963 |
Wilbur Joseph Bender |
1960 |
| 1966 |
John Harvard Castle Jr. |
1968 |
| 1966 |
Milton Steinbach |
1970 |
| 1967 |
George Hebert Walker Bush |
1979 |
| 1968 |
John Lewis Cooper |
1980 |
| 1969 |
Philip Kirkham Allen |
1980 |
| 1969 |
Gerard Piel |
1985 |
| 1969 |
Charles Appleton Meyer |
1988 |
| 1971 |
William Wade Boeschenstein |
1990 |
| 1972 |
Theodore Ryland Sizer, Headmaster |
1981 |
| 1974 |
Carol Hardin Kimball |
1991 |
| 1974 |
Melville Chapin, Board President, 1981-1989 |
1989 |
| 1976 |
Richard Lee Gelb |
1994 |
| 1980 |
Stephen Bradner Burbank |
1997 |
| 1980 |
Elizabeth Parker Powell |
2000 |
| 1981 |
Frederick William Beinecke |
2000 |
| 1981 |
Thomas Hunt Wyman |
1986 |
| 1981 |
Donald William McNemar, Headmaster |
1994 |
| 1983 |
David Milton Underwood, Board President, 1989-2004 |
2004 |
| 1985 |
Alexander Buel Trowbridge |
1998 |
| 1987 |
John DeWitt Macomber |
1995 |
| 1988 |
Barbara Corwin Timken |
2004 |
| 1989 |
Richard Goodyear |
2005 |
| 1990 |
Clinton Jansen Kendrick |
2006 |
| 1990 |
William Milton Lewis Jr. |
1997 |
| 1991 |
Cynthia Eaton Bing |
2007 |
| 1994 |
Barbara Landis Chase, Head of School |
2012 |
| 1995 |
Broughton Hayward Bishop |
2002 |
| 1995 |
Oscar Liu-Chien Tang, Board President 2004-2012 |
2012 |
| 1997 |
Charles Julian Beard II |
2004 |
| 1997 |
Edward Elliot Elson |
2009 |
| 1997 |
Mollie Lupe Lasater |
2013 |
| 1997 |
Thomas Craig Israel |
2013 |
| 2000 |
Daniel Paul Cunningham |
2015 |
| 2000 |
Sandra Ann Urie |
2018 |
| 2002 |
E. Scott Mead |
2016 |
| 2002 |
Stanley Saxe Shuman |
2010 |
| 2004 |
Peter L. S. Currie, Board President, 2012-2021 |
2020 |
| 2004 |
William Milton Lewis, Jr. |
2013 |
| 2004 |
Stephen C. Sherrill |
2017 |
| 2005 |
Sidney R. Knafel |
2006 |
| 2006 |
Shelly D. Guyer |
2019 |
| 2006 |
Joshua L. Steiner |
2019 |
| 2008 |
Louis G. Elson |
2021 |
| 2009 |
Chien Lee |
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| 2009 |
Tammy Snyder Murphy |
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| 2011 |
Robert J. Campbell |
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| 2011 |
Amy C. Falls, Board President, 2021- |
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| 2012 |
Tristin Batchelder Mannion |
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| 2012 |
John G. Palfrey, Jr., Head of School |
2019 |
| 2014 |
Tamara Elliott Rogers |
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| 2014 |
Joseph Y. Bae |
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| 2016 |
David J. Corkins |
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| 2017 |
Stefan L. Kaluzny |
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| 2017 |
Eric L. Zinterhofer |
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| 2017 |
Gil Caffray |
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| 2018 |
Tristan Batchelder Mannion |
| 2019 |
Christopher S. Auguste |
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| 2019 |
Yichen Zhang |
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| 2020 |
Raynard S. Kington, Head of School |
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| 2020 |
Keith T. Flaherty |
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| 2021 |
Michael Schmertzler |
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| 2022 |
Tammy Snyder Murphy |
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| 2022 |
David Corkins |
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| 2022 |
Allison Picott |
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| 2022 |
Amy Christodoulo |
| 2022 |
Carlos Montemayor |
| 2022 |
Drew Guff |
| 2023 |
Henry Smyth |
| 2023 |
Anna Durham |
| 2024 |
Stacy Schiff |
| 2025 |
Harold Kim |
| 2025 |
Stephen King |