 Speakers have included Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson (former prime minister and previous President of the Society), Tony Benn, Enoch Powell, Rowan Williams – former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Douglas Hurd (current President of the Society), Nigel Farage MEP, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, former Green Party leader – Caroline Lucas MP, Theresa May MP – Home Secretary and subsequently the UK's second woman prime minister; Lord Judge former Lord Chief Justice; the former Director of Liberty, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE; the United States Ambassador to the UK, His Excellency Matthew Barzun; and Lord Neuberger, former President of the Supreme Court.Meetings are coordinated by Dr Graham Goodlad, Head of Government and Politics at St John’s College.The St John's College chapel choir can date its roots back to the 1940s when the choir was said to be 50 strong and performed in local churches and Hampshire music festivals, under first the musical direction of Mr John Deegan until 1948 and then Mrs Helen Dyer, who remained choir mistress for the next 25 years.