The British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, it elects fellows to its membership. The following were elected in the 1940s.

1940 Dr Z. N. Brooke Rev. M. P. Charlesworth Professor V. Gordon Childe Sir Cyril Fox C. J. Gadd Dr E. Prestage Professor D. S. Robertson Dr W. A. Shaw Lord Wright

1941 J. Allan Dr A. B. Cook Dr A. C. Ewing Professor E. Fraenkel T. D. Kendrick F. J. E. Raby K. Sisam Sidney Smith Professor H. T. Wade-Gery Dr R. E. Mortimer Wheeler

1942 Dr E. R. Bevan Professor E. R. Dodds Dr J. L. le B. Hammond Professor J. R. Hicks Professor L. C. Robbins E. S. G. Robinson Professor R. L. Turner

1943 Christopher Dawson J. Goronwy Edwards A. S. F. Gow Professor Battiscombe Gunn Professor H. H. Price Professor F. P. Wilson

1944 Dr C. K. Allen Professor H. W. Bailey G. Caton Thompson Professor H. A. R. Gibb Professor F. A. von Hayek Dr F. E. Hutchinson Dr W. H. S. Jones Professor R. A. B. Mynors Professor L. B. Namier Dr F. Saxl Ronald Syme Harold Williams

1945 Professor B. H. Sumner Helen Cam Professor T. W. Manson A. D. Waley Sir R. O. Winstedt E. F. Carritt Professor G. C. Cheshire Professor A. J. B. Wace

1946 Sir A. Carr-Saunders Rev. C. H. Dodd Professor S. R. K. Glanville Professor R. Hackforth Professor E. F. Jacob H. Mattingly Professor H. J. Paton Professor T. F. T. Plucknett Professor W. L. Renwick Professor E. Ll. Woodward

1947 Sir E. Barker O. G. S. Crawford Professor K. A. C. Creswell H. Darbishire Sir C. Flower Professor A. W. Gomme R. F. Harrod Professor A. H. M. Jones Professor M. D. Knowles I. A Richmond C. H. Roberts Professor H. H. Rowley Rev. J. M. Thompson Professor B. Willey

1948 Professor Sir Reginald Coupland Professor G. C. Field Professor C. F. C. Hawkes Professor Sir Hubert Henderson Dr P. E. Kahle Rev. Dr W. L. Knox Professor H. Lauterpacht W. A. Pantin Professor R. Pares Rev. Professor C. E. Raven Professor Leon Roth Dr J. V. Scholderer F. Wormald

1949 Professor A. J. Arberry Dr R. W. Chapman Sir Kenneth Clark Professor David Douglas Professor R. W. Firth Rev. Dr W. F. Howard Professor J. E. Neale Dr Rudolf Pfeiffer A. E. Popham

See also Fellows of the British Academy

References The above names are taken from the British Academy Annual Reports, found in the Proceedings of the British Academy for the years 1940 to 1949.