This is a roll of Presidents of the Suffolk Organists' Association since its inception on Saturday February 10th, 1934.
I understand that a Journal has been produced for much of that time and in particular, John Cooper, President in the nineteen seventies, was an assiduous producer of the Journal for a stretch of 34 years. John produced Journal No 115 in 2009 to celebrate 75 Years in which there is a fine picture of Jonathan Job, the first President of the Ipswich Association of Organists now known as the Suffolk Organists Association.
- 1934-1936 Jonathan Job FRCO
- 1936-37 Bernard Southgate FRCO FTCL
- 1937-1938 Revd. H Ruglys
- 1938-1939 Walter A Rose
- 1939-1940 W F Mahony
- 1940-1941 A R Steward
- 1941-1942 T Uff
- 1942-1943 Robert E L Shipp
- 1943-1945 Walter A Rose
- 1945-1946 Revd. H Ruglys
- 1946-1947 Miss E V Harvey
- 1947-1948 David W J Collins
- 1948-1949 Frank J Andrews ARCO
- 1949-1951 T Bates Wilkinson ARCO
- 1951-1952 Robert E L Shipp
- 1952-1953 John W Goldsmith
- 1953-1954 Thomas E Reed FRCO LTCL
- 1954-1955 Reginald G Kell ARCO LTCL
- 1955-1956 Frank E Davies FRCO
- 1956-1957 Gordon Hawkins
- 1957-1959 Norman H Jones FRCO LTCL
- 1959-1960 Felix la T Budgett BSc(Eng) AMIEE
- 1960-1961 Mrs. C M Gillingwater
- 1961-1962 Jeffrey M Guffogg
- 1962-1963 T F Harrison Oxley MA BMus FRCO ARCM
- 1963-1965 Percy C Kibble
- 1965-1966 Arthur H Borrett
- 1966-1967 Arthur E Runneckles
- 1967-1968 Colin B Edgar
- 1968-1969 Peter Clarke ALCM
- 1969-1970 Miss H F Jewers
- 1970-1971 Norman H Jones FRCO LTCL
- 1971-1972 Reginald G Kell ARCO LTCL
- 1972-1973 David Brand
- 1973-1974 Geoffrey Pawlyn
- 1974-1975 Michael Woodward
- 1975-1977 John H Cooper MMus FRCO(CHM) ARCM
- 1977-1978 Geoffrey A Hannant ARCM
- 1978-1980 Revd. Michael C Booker LTh ARCO LLCM
- 1980-1981 Joy Dupont GRSM ARCM
- 1981-1982 Timothy J C Lawford MA FRCO(CHM) LRAM ARCM
- 1982-1983 John Harding ARIBA FRA ARCO
- 1983-1984 Frank E Davies FRCO
- 1984-1985 Gray Silversides MSc FIFireE
- 1985-1986 Jim Scofield MA
- 1986-1988 Peter Crompton GRNCM PGCE
- 1988-1989 Eric Leigh BA DMus FRCO
- 1989-1990 Ann Little LRAM GRSM
- 1990-1991 Anthony Roberts ARCO ALCM
- 1991-1992 Keith Bond MA MusB FRCO ARMCM
- 1992-1993 Mervyn Cousins MMus ARCO
- 1993-1994 John H Cooper MMus FRCO(CHM) ARCM
- 1994-1995 Peter Bumstead MA BMus
- 1995-1996 Juliette Adams BMus MFA
- 1996-1997 James Crowe MBE MA MBA FRSA
- 1997-1998 John Ottley BA FRCO(CHM) ADCM
- 1998-1999 Scott Farrell BA ARCO ARCM
- 1999-2000 Derrick Hibberd
- 2000-2001 Stephen Hogger BA FGSM FASC ALCM ACertCM
- 2001-2002 Dawn Harding
- 2002-2003 James Thomas MA FRCO PGCE
- 2003-2004 Enid Hunt RGN RNT
- 2004-2005 John H Cooper MMus FRCO(CHM) ARCM
- 2005-2006 Ann Little LRAM GRSM
- 2006-2008 James Crowe MBE MA MBA FRSA
- 2008-2010 Peter Crompton GRNCM PGCE
- 2010-2012 Roger Pulham DArch RIBA
- 2012-2013 Andrew Garfath-Cox BA MEd DipMus
- 2013-2014 William Saunders BA ARCO
- 2014-2016 Andrew Garfath-Cox BA MEd DipMus
- 2016-2017 Ann Little LRAM GRSM
- 2017-2018 Martin Ellis FRCO
- 2018-2022 Nicholas Jardine
- 2022-2023 William Baldry BMus(Hons)
- 2023-2024 Alan Loader