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*[[President (The Three Doctors)|Un-named male President]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') | *[[President (The Three Doctors)|Un-named male President]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') | ||
*[[President (The Deadly Assassin)|Un-named male President]] (assassinated) ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') (possibly the same President) | *[[President (The Deadly Assassin)|Un-named male President]] (assassinated) ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') (possibly the same President) | ||
*The [[ | *The [[Fourth Doctor]], was the 407th President. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', [[EDA]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'') | ||
*Un-named male President (impersonated by the [[White Guardian]] and later by the [[Black Guardian]]) ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') (possibly Borusa) | *Un-named male President (impersonated by the [[White Guardian]] and later by the [[Black Guardian]]) ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') (possibly Borusa) | ||
*[[Borusa]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]''. ''[[The Five Doctors]]'') | *[[Borusa]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]''. ''[[The Five Doctors]]'') | ||
*[[Fifth | *The [[Fifth Doctor]] (did not assume office; deposed), he was (still counted as) the 409th President. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'', [[EDA]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]], [[DW]]: [[Trial of a Time Lord]]'') | ||
*[[Niroc]] was president during [[Operation Ravalox]] and the [[ | *[[Niroc]] was president during [[Operation Ravalox]] and the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s (faked) trial. He was a puppet of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'', [[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'') | ||
*[[Flavia]] was president for some time, then challenged and beaten for presidency by [[Romana II|Romana]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'') (She may have lost an election challenge to Romana, or have been deposed in a coup by another interim President before Romana was invested.) | *[[Flavia]] was president for some time, then challenged and beaten for presidency by [[Romana II|Romana]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'') (She may have lost an election challenge to Romana, or have been deposed in a coup by another interim President before Romana was invested.) | ||
*Un-named male President ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time]]''), this President also served as interim President during Romana's imprisonment by the Daleks. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element|The Apocalypse Element)]]'' | *Un-named male President ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time]]''), this President also served as interim President during Romana's imprisonment by the Daleks. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element|The Apocalypse Element)]]'' | ||
Revision as of 02:30, 6 June 2011
The Lord or Lady President (or President of the Council or simply President) governed the High Council of Time Lords, making him or her the holder of the most powerful office on Gallifrey. Lady President Romana often used a full title of President of the Supreme Council of Gallifrey and all of her Dominions. (BFG: Gallifrey)
The ceremonial privileges of the President included access to the APC Net by means of the Matrix Crown (DW: The Invasion of Time) and the possession of the Sash and Rod of Rassilon (sometimes also called the Key of Rassilon). (DW: The Deadly Assassin)
The President also had the formal responsibility, not attempted in reality, to seek the Great Key of Rassilon (a separate artefact from the Rod of Rassilon, also sometimes referred to as the Key of Rassilon). (DW: The Invasion of Time)
The Lord President cannot be put on trial. (DW: The Mysterious Planet)
It was indicated by the Master that if the Doctor killed Rassilon who was Lord President at the time, that the Doctor could have become Lord President in his place. (DW: The End of Time)
Holders of the Office of President
- Rassilon, the first President and founder of modern Time Lord's society. (DW: The Five Doctors)
- Pandora, the first female President, overthrown by her High Council after claiming the title of Imperiatrix. (BFG: Lies)
- Morbius, President who led a war of Time Lord's conquest, overthrown by the High Council. (DW: The Brain of Morbius)
- Saran, Vice President, became President during the Morbius Crisis. (PDA: Warmonger)
- Drall, President during The Doctor's time at the Time Lord Academy. (PDA: Divided Loyalties)
- Pandak III (DW: The Deadly Assassin, RT: Birth of a Renegade)
- Greyjan the Sane was President for three days between the 2nd September 1752 and 14th September 1752. (EDA: The Ancestor Cell)
- Un-named male President (DW: The Three Doctors)
- Un-named male President (assassinated) (DW: The Deadly Assassin) (possibly the same President)
- The Fourth Doctor, was the 407th President. (DW: The Invasion of Time, EDA: The Ancestor Cell)
- Un-named male President (impersonated by the White Guardian and later by the Black Guardian) (DW: The Armageddon Factor) (possibly Borusa)
- Borusa (DW: Arc of Infinity. The Five Doctors)
- The Fifth Doctor (did not assume office; deposed), he was (still counted as) the 409th President. (DW: The Five Doctors, EDA: The Ancestor Cell, DW: Trial of a Time Lord)
- Niroc was president during Operation Ravalox and the Sixth Doctor's (faked) trial. He was a puppet of the Celestial Intervention Agency. (DW: The Trial of a Time Lord, EDA: The Eight Doctors)
- Flavia was president for some time, then challenged and beaten for presidency by Romana. (EDA: The Eight Doctors, NA: Happy Endings) (She may have lost an election challenge to Romana, or have been deposed in a coup by another interim President before Romana was invested.)
- Un-named male President (BFA: The Sirens of Time), this President also served as interim President during Romana's imprisonment by the Daleks. (BFA: The Apocalypse Element)
- Romanadvoratrelundar (see her entries Romana (second incarnation) and Romana (third incarnation) for more details) (NA: Blood Harvest, Happy Endings, Lungbarrow, MA: Goth Opera, BFA: Neverland, Zagreus, BFG: Gallifrey, EDA: The Shadows of Avalon, The Ancestor Cell)
- Romana and Pandora (inhabiting the body of Romana's first incarnation) both claimed the title of 'Imperiatrix' when Darkel invoked a 'right of challenge' for the Presidency. (BFG: Imperiatrix)
- Valyes, acting President after the defeat of Pandora and the incapacitation of Romana. He resigned and Darkel, Matthias and Romana each claimed the Presidency. (BFG: Appropriation)
- Irving Braxiatel, resigned almost immediately, having named his successor. (BFG: Mindbomb)
- Matthias, saw Gallifrey almost destroyed by the Free Time Dogma Virus.
- Voran, Dromeian Castellan was acting President. (PDA: The Infinity Doctors)
- Romana was the President of Gallifrey at the the beginning of the Last Great Time War. (DWA: Doctor Who Annual 2006)
- Rassilon was resurrected and made president during the Last Great Time War. (DW: The End of Time)
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