The following is a list of all Past Masters of the livery, from 1672 to the present day.
List of Masters
| 1670-71 | Samuel Grainger (or Granger) |
| 1672-74 | James Bayly |
| 1675-79 | Frances Grincell (or Grinsell, Greenesoll, Grimsell) |
| 1680 | James Gray |
| 1681 | Richard Holder (or Houlder) |
| 1682 | Robert Biddle |
| 1683 | Hugh Worrall (or Wyrrell, Worrell) |
| 1684 | Robert Miller |
| 1685 | Bartholomew Piggott (or Pigott) |
| 1686 | Richard Holder |
| 1687 | William Browne |
| 1688 | Thomas Munday (or Monday) |
| 1689 | Robert Rogers |
| 1690 | Thomas Greene |
| 1691 | Robert Miller |
| 1692-93 | Thomas Loveday (or Love Day) |
| 1694 | Richard Penny |
| 1695-96 | John Woodhouse |
| 1697 | Richard Penny |
| 1698 | Thomas Ireson |
| 1699 | Captain John Bonney |
| 1700-01 | Robert Tredwell |
| 1702 | Thomas Wharton (died in office) |
| John Woodhouse | |
| 1703-04 | Isaac Taylor |
| 1705-06 | Thomas Gibson |
| 1707-08 | Thomas Bursey (or Burssey, Bursye, Burssye) |
| 1709 | William Russell |
| 1710 | William Ockenden |
| 1711 | Isaac Miller |
| 1712 | Thomas Taylor |
| 1713-14 | Nicholas Poirce (or Poirie, Pirrie, Peirce) |
| 1715-17 | Edward Frewtrell (or Fewtrell) |
| 1718 | Robert Hall |
| 1719-20 | John Avory (or Avery) |
| 1721-22 | Roger Penny (or Penney) |
| 1723 | John Ring |
| 1724 | George Harvey |
| 1725 | Thomas Bennett (or Bennet) |
| 1726 | Thomas Ingram |
| 1727 | Richard Read |
| 1728 | Thomas Penny |
| 1729-30 | Thomas Parkhurst |
| 1731 | William Long |
| 1732 | John Dolley (or Dolly) |
| 1733 | John Walkingham |
| 1734-35 | Daniel Dolley |
| 1736 | Daniel Baskerville |
| 1737-38 | William Taylor |
| 1739 | Thomas Price |
| 1740-41 | John Page (died in office) |
| 1741 | John Avery |
| 1742 | John Woodford |
| 1743 | Arthur Hand |
| 1744 | Josiah Hoskins |
| 1745-46 | Joseph Judge |
| 1747 | Thomas Scrimshaw |
| 1748 | John Dobee |
| 1749 | John Buck |
| 1750 | William Gibson |
| 1751 | William Keene |
| 1752 | John Trickett |
| 1753 | William Lawrence |
| 1754 | Collins Perry |
| 1755-56 | Henry Biggs |
| 1757 | John Bridge |
| 1758 | Matthew Harvey |
| 1759 | Joseph Bent |
| 1760 | Robert Horne |
| 1761 | John Davey |
| 1762 | Thomas Crump |
| 1763 | Robert Willie |
| 1764 | George Ward |
| 1765 | John Woodeson |
| 1766 | Robert Martin |
| 1767 | Samuel Gardiner |
| 1768 | Theodore Pigg |
| 1769 | Charles Holdsworth |
| 1770 | Charles Spivey |
| 1771 | Robert Martin |
| 1772 | William Ford |
| 1773 | George Turpin |
| 1774 | Elisha Urling |
| 1775 | Robert Lum |
| 1776 | Joseph Powell |
| 1777-78 | Lazarus Pryke |
| 1779-80 | Henry Harris |
| 1781-82 | Joseph Ashmore |
| 1783 | James Guest |
| 1784-85 | Samuel Dangerfield |
| 1876-87 | William Holmer |
| 1788-89 | Thomas Baron Woodison |
| 1790-91 | Henry Dawes |
| 1792-94 | Joseph Fennell |
| 1795 | Anthony Abbot (died in office) |
| 1795-97 | John Rance |
| 1798-00 | William Taylor |
| 1801-02 | Thomas Mankin |
| 1803-04 | John Knight |
| 1805-06 | John Goodland |
| 1807 | Henry Thomson |
| 1808 | Edmund Walker |
| 1809 | Richard Abbey |
| 1810 | John Cutler |
| 1811 | Thomas Smith |
| 1812 | Peter Leonard |
| 1813 | George Blundell |
| 1814 | Henry Thomson |
| 1815 | Hugh Hodgson |
| 1816 | James Graves |
| 1817 | John Bumsted |
| 1818 | William Alexander Ridpath |
| 1819 | John Combs |
| 1820 | William Lewis Newman (City Solicitor) |
| 1821 | John Breach |
| 1822 | Jonathan Monkhouse |
| 1823 | Bartholomew Dawes |
| 1824 | Samuel Sanderson Hall |
| 1825 | Richard Abbey |
| 1826 | John Cutler |
| 1827 | Robert Wilson |
| 1828 | Peter Leonard |
| 1829 | John Bumstead |
| 1830 | James Graves |
| 1831 | John Bumstead |
| 1832 | William Lewis Newman |
| 1833 | John Combs |
| 1834 | Samuel Becton |
| 1835 | William Alexander Ridpath |
| 1836 | John Breach |
| 1837 | Charles Chatfield |
| 1838 | Samuel Sanderson Hall |
| 1839 | Cadman Hodgkinson |
| 1840 | Bartholomew Dawes |
| 1841 | Robert Thomas Perkins |
| 1842 | Charles Sutherland |
| 1843 | Beniah Gibb |
| 1844 | Samuel Judkins |
| 1845 | Francis Bligh Hookey |
| 1846 | Joseph Charles |
| 1847 | John Bentley |
| 1848 | Christopher Phillips |
| 1849 | Henry Attride |
| 1850 | Samuel Hill |
| 1851-52 | Joseph Bebb |
| 1853 | Bartholomew Dawes |
| 1854 | Robert Shaw |
| 1855 | Robert Thomas Perkins |
| 1856 | Robert Wilson |
| 1857 | Christopher Phillips |
| 1858 | Henry Graves |
| 1859 | Henry Attride |
| 1860 | Samuel Hill |
| 1861 | Joseph Bebb |
| 1862 | Robert Shaw |
| 1863 | Christopher Phillips |
| 1864 | Henry Graves |
| 1865 | Joseph Bebb |
| 1866 | Robert Shaw |
| 1867 | Beal French |
| 1868 | Christopher Phillips |
| 1869 | Henry Graves |
| 1870 | Beal French |
| 1871 | Henry Graves |
| 1872 | Beal French |
| 1873 | David French |
| 1874 | Henry Graves |
| 1875 | Beal French |
| 1876 | David French |
| 1877 | Joseph Patrick Taylor |
| 1878 | Charles William Thompson |
| 1879 | Captain (later Colonel) T Davies Sewell |
| 1880 | Barrow Emanuel |
| 1881 | James Chapman |
| 1882 | William Henry Pannell CC |
| 1883 | Captain (later Major) James Alfred Thornhill |
| 1884-85 | Captain (later Major) George Lambert |
| 1886 | Richard Clout |
| 1887 | John Alexander Brand (City Comptroller) |
| 1888 | Witham Matthew Bywater |
| 1889 | Herbert (later Sir) Henry Bartlett (later Bt.) |
| 1890 | Alfred Joseph Baker |
| 1891 | Peter Tocher |
| 1892-93 | Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (Sheriff 1890) |
| 1894 | Major (later Colonel) Clifford Probyn JP DL LCC |
| 1895 | John Welford |
| 1896 | Edward Henry Brown |
| 1897-98 | Harry (later Sir) Seymour Foster MP (Sheriff 1891) |
| 1899 | John Welford |
| 1900 | Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, Bt. |
| 1901 | Colonel Clifford Probyn JP DL LCC |
| 1902 | Henry Hobson Finch |
| 1903 | Edward Henry Brown |
| 1904 | Peregrine Charles Cotton Francis |
| 1905-06 | Charles (later Sir, Bt.)Augustin Hanson CBE JP |
| 1907 | Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, Bt. |
| 1908 | William Sparks |
| 1909-10 | Frederick Cleeves |
| 1911 | Colonel Clifford Probyn JP DL LCC |
| 1912 | Charles (later Sir, Bt.)Augustin Hanson CBE JP (Lord Mayor 1917) |
| 1913 | Leslie Steven Robertson |
| 1914-16 | Athrur C Davidson |
| 1917-19 | Joseph Grose Colmer CMG |
| 1920 | Henry Cart de Lafontaine |
| 1921 | John Frederick Cleeves |
| 1922 | Sir Wiliam Raynor JP |
| 1923 | Sir Philip Dawson MP |
| 1924 | The Hon. F H Hamilton Smith |
| 1925 | Frederick Richard Simms |
| 1926 | George Quinlan Roberts CBE |
| 1927 | Dr John Stokes |
| 1928 | Captain Sydeney Frankenberg |
| 1929 | Alec Lionel Rea |
| 1930-31 | Patrick (later Sir) Joseph Hannon MP |
| 1932 | Thomas Caldwell Litler-Jones |
| 1933 | Lt Colonel Ralph Boughton Haywood |
| 1934 | John Frederick Cleeves |
| 1935-36 | Sir Robert Vaughan Gower KCVO OBE MP |
| 1937 | William Shearer |
| 1938 | [Adolph] Harry (later Sir) Railing |
| 1939 | Alec Lionel Rea CBE, Ch. Legion d’Honneur |
| 1940-41 | William Vernon Heale |
| 1942-43 | Lt General Sir John Brown KCB CBE DSO TD JP DL |
| 1944 | Colonel (later Sir) John Mayhew TD |
| 1945-47 | Samuel Rolleston Hogg DSO |
| 1948 | Sir William Shenton |
| 1949 | Anthony Sancroft-Baker |
| 1950 | Lt General Sir John Brown KCB CBE DSO TD JP DL |
| 1951-52 | The Rt Hon Lord Nathan of Churt PC TD DL |
| 1953 | General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, Bt. GCB DSO MC |
| 1954 | Lt Colonel Douglas Herbert Davis |
| 1955 | Willie Harold Wooltorton |
| 1956 | Colonel Thomas Gregory MC TD |
| 1957 | Leslie Hamilton Watts |
| 1958 | Reginald Logan Rait |
| 1959-60 | Abraham Montagu Lyons QC |
| 1961 | Rudolph George Berchem |
| 1962 | Neville Blond CMG OBE |
| 1963 | Colonel Arthur Edward Henson TD |
| 1964 | Captain Jack Fox-Williams MC |
| 1965 | Dr Frank Martin Hussey Taylor CBE |
| 1966 | Sir Hamilton Kerr, Bt. |
| 1967 | Major Ronald Edward Warlow TD |
| 1968 | Colonel Alfred Roy Wise MBE TD |
| 1969 | Herbert Kenneth Stein |
| 1970 | Simon Edward Miller |
| 1971 | William Michael Pybus |
| 1972 | David Logan Rait |
| 1973 | Colonel Alfred John Page CB TD DL |
| 1974 | Commander Robert Macdonald-Hall, RN (Retd) |
| 1975 | Hallam Newton Egerton Alston |
| 1976 | Denis Patrick Canning Weiner |
| 1977 | Walter (later Sir ) Hans Salomon |
| 1978 | Commander Robert Macdonald-Hall, RN (Retd) |
| 1979 | Lt Col Wilfrid Lyonel Miron CBE TD DL JP |
| 1980 | Colonel Sir Anthony Wharton CBE TD DL (died in office) |
| Dr Frank Martin Hussey Taylor CBE | |
| 1981 | Edward (later Sir) Rayne CVO |
| 1982 | Edgar Astaire |
| 1983 | Christopher Anthony Prendergast CBE DL |
| 1984 | Alfred Joseph Yorke Magnus |
| 1985-86 | Anthony Noel Eskenzi CC (later CBE; Sheriff 1981; Chief Commoner 2001) |
| 1987 | William Richard Frank Chamberlain DL |
| 1988 | His Honour Judge (later Sir) Lawrence John Verney TD DL (Recorder 1990-98) |
| 1989 | Geoffrey Wyndham Marshall |
| 1990 | Daniel Gilbert |
| 1991 | John Philip Henry Michael Selwyn Cunynghame |
| 1992 | Robert Priestly Shepherd DL JP |
| 1993 | George Richard Albert Andrews |
| 1994 | Raymond Samuel Sancroft-Baker |
| 1995 | Anthony Donald Miller |
| 1996 | John Anthony Victor Townsend |
| 1997 | Ian Scarr Hall |
| 1998 | Richard Paice |
| 1999 | Robert Paul Ziff JP |
| 2000 | Robert Jack Henderson Edwards |
| 2001 | Michael Peter Fincham |
| 2002 | Nigel John Linstead |
| 2003 | Dame [Anne] Heather Steel DBE |
| 2004 | Mr Donald Newell |
| 2005 | Mr Christopher William Stone |
| 2006 | Mr Philip Richard Saunderson |
| 2007 | Professor Barry Alexander Kenneth Rider OBE |
| 2008 | Mr Timothy Eatough Watts |
| 2009 | Dr Helen Rees Auty |
| 2010 | Mr Stuart Howard Lamb |
| 2011 | Sir John A Timpson CBE |
| 2012 | Mr Richard L Page |
| 2013 | Mr Simon James Goodman |
| 2014 | Sheriff Christopher M Hayward CC |
| 2015 | Mr Nicholas C G Andrews |
| 2016 | Mr Michael Kemsley |
| 2017 | Mr Richard Kottler |
| 2018 | Mr Alastair Watson-Gandy |
| 2019 | Dr David Best |
| 2020 | Ms Jennifer Bryant-Pearson |
| 2022 | Ms Sarah Leijten |
| 2023 | Commodore Pat Tyrrell OBE Royal Navy |
| 2024 | Deputy Keith Bottomley |