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There are usually 3 names each year, one per term, except where stated; College name follows each person's name. The Club was known as the O.U. Liberal Club until the end of 1970; the Oxford Union of Liberal Students up to Hilary 1976; the Oxford Students' Liberal Society up to Hilary 1987; the Oxford Students Alliance Society up to Hilary 1988; the O.U. Social & Liberal Democrats up to Michaelmas 1989; and the O.U. Liberal Democrats from Hilary 1990 on.
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1913 Robert Whyte, Bal (?)
1915 John Pugh, Qns (H - ?)
1919 Basil Herbert, ChCh & Philip Rea, ChCh (M)
1920 Arthur Rau, Wad (H)
1921 Samuel Blackman, BNC & Geoffrey Wrangham, Bal (H); Janet Vaughan, Som & Samuel Blackman,   BNC (M)
1923 Robert Bernays, Wor & Mary Somerville, Som (H)
1923-4 Francis Cockburn, Keb (between M 1923 & T 1924)
1924-5 HV Lloyd-Jones, Jes (between M 1924 & T 1925)
1926 Dingle Foot, Bal (T)
1933 Stephen Bach, New
1935 Raymond Walton, Bal (H)
1936 Peter Twinn, BNC (M)
1937 Rufus Noel-Buxton, Bal; Derek Tasker, Ext; Richard Miles, Ext
1938 Peter Stuart, Ext; Rosamund Berridge, Som; Donald Milton, Tri
1939 Michael de L Wilson, Bal; George Grey, Hfd; Mervyn Evans, Hfd
1942 Daphne Park, Som (M)
1943 Archibald Dunn, New (H); Godfrey le Quesne, Ext (T)
1944 John Gilbey, Qns (M)
1945 Sydney Hopewell, Qns (H); Gitta Blumenthal, LMH (M)
1946 henry Palmer, Qns; Peter Wise, Wad; Margaret Newman, Som
1947 Patrick Furnell, Tri; Merril Brady, SHU; Anne Glyn-Jones, LMH
1948 Ann MacFadyean, Som (H); Elizabeth Graham, Som (T)
1948-9  Francis Schuster, Mag; Sheila Hawking, StA
1949 Jeremy Thorpe, Tri (M)
1950 Mary Parry Evans, Som; David Ferguson, Wor; Cecil Baker, Mag
1951 John Stewart, Bal; Philip Watkins, BNC; Peter Hellman, StJ
1952 Alan Deyermond, Pem; John Collins, Qns; David Worthy, Bal
1953 Ann Bracken, SHU; Roger Booth, Jes; Clifford Joseph, StJ
1954 John King-Farlow, ChCh; Robin Greig, ChCh; Ruth Butterworth, LMH
1955 Norman Hale, StJ; Alan Share, Mer; Bryan Ellis, Jes
1956 John Robinson, Keb; Dorothy Findjohn, SHU; John Cohn, ChCh
1957 Tom Crowther, Keb; Graham High, CCC; Sylvia Hargreaves, SHU
1958 Tony Luesby, Lnc; John Mitton, BNC; David Franks, BNC
1959 Marjorie Williams, LMH, Charles Frieze, Qns; Robert Morris, Bal
1960 David Crossley, Keb; Michael Falchikov, Orl; Brian Cookson, Keb
1961 John Howe, Mer; Malcolm Brahams, Bal; Christopher Mott, ChCh
1962 Paul Tyler, Ext; Mike Mann, Univ; Garth Pratt, CCC
1963 Richard Littlejohns, Keb; George Kiloh, StC; Jeremy Beloff, StC
1964 Jim Cousins, New; Alan Cowan, SEH; Ian Morison, Lnc
1965 Charles Scanlan, Bal; Helen Rushworth, StA; Marshall Eagle, StC

After this term until the end of Hilary 1976 the terms 'Secretary' and 'Organising Secretary' (previously the fourth senior officership) seem to have been used interchangeably, while occasionally they refer to two separate individuals in one term. I've tried to give the names here as they appear in the records - see also the fourth officer lists for more names.

1967 Paul McHugh, Orl (M) - 'Secretary'
1968 Diana Hall, SHI (T); Mike Flanagan, Pem (M) - both 'Secretary'
1969 Gillian Filtness, SHU (H) - 'Secretary'
1971 Alan Sherwell, Qns, Sec/Org.Sec.; Stephen Postle, StJ, Org.Sec.; Mike Austerberry, Wor - Org.Sec.
1972 Caroline Hey, Som - Org.Sec.; Gordon Kirk, Sec. & Oliver Elphick, Ext, Org.Sec.; Mike Ross, Keb,   Org.Sec.
1973 Anthony Sturman, Qns, Sec./Org.Sec & Paul Ryder, Wor, Org.Sec.; Andrew Seager, Org.Sec.; Richard Pyne, Keb, Org.Sec.
1974 David Croft, Mag, Org.Sec.; Charis Bamber, SEH, Org.Sec.; Liz Sharpe, SHU, Sec. & Francis Cave,     Mag, Org.Sec.
1975 Nick St Aubyn, Tri, Sec. in H but Org.Sec. in T; Kathy Bell, SHI, Org.Sec.
1976 Henry Tinsley, Wor, Org.Sec.; Jayne Almond, SHI; Ewan Ferlie, Bal
1977 David Ashcroft, Mag (H & T); Crispen Owen, ChCh
1978 James Cornford, Lnc (H); Jeremy Shaw, Qns (M)
1979 John Inkpin, Mer (T)
1980 Alan Campion, New; Brent Smith, Pem; Guy le Fanu, Bal*
1981 Ian Gambles, Bal*; Neil Schofield, ChCh*; Bob Bunting, Univ
1982 Bob Bunting, Univ; Dickon Abbott, Lnc; Bob Bunting, Univ
1983 Julian Ware, Orl; Andrew Myers, Univ
1985 Karl Jagdis (T)
1987 Colin Paine, Keb (T); Jackie Watson, Som (M)
1988 Kate Williams, SHU; Nick Bamforth, Wor; Jonathan Pugh, ChCh
1989 Roland Combley, Mag; John Rule, Univ; Phil Porter, Jes
1990 Gerard Byrne, Jes; H. Webber, SHU; Sam Best-Shaw, Ext
1991 Jack Newsome, Westmr; Peter Rothery, Univ; Stephen Shepherd, Qns
1992 Ian Glen, Ext; Angus Ritchie, Mag; Paul Martin, StJ
1993 Jeremy Thorp, ChCh; Julian Glover, Univ; Gordon Woods, StJ
1994 Alan Renwick, Mer; Maxie Haddow-Allen, StA; Eugenia Loe, StJ
1995 Laura Davies, Som; Roger Crouch, SHU; Chris Turner, Wor
1996 Eva McEvoy, New; Tamsin Lishman, SHI (T & M)
1998 Alison Hughes, Som (H); Nina Percival, Wad (M)
1999 Dave McCobb, Keb (H); Daniel Maudsley, LMH (M)
2000 Anna Sabine, Wad; Sonia Sodha, SHI; Priya Agravat, SHI
2001 Robin Gray, StB (T); Vivienne Raper, Mfd (M)
2002 Tom Wainwright, StJ (H)
2003 Samuel Parr, Qns (T); Senthuran Bhuvanendra, Orl (M)
2004 Jonathan Bochenski, RPC; Frederik Herzberg, Mer; Steve Harper, CCC
2005 Steve Harper, CCC; Lewis Allan, Tri; Amy Jones, SHU
2006 Julian Naden Robinson, ChCh; Jonny Wright, Tri; Rachel Harriott, StC
2007 Joseph Ammoun, SEH (H & T); Martin Nelson, LMH (M)
2008 Grace Weaver, CCC; Mark Mills, SEH (T & M)
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* For these three terms there was no 'Secretary' and the Membership Secretary fulfilled the functions of that post.