Theory:Timeline - President of Gallifrey

This page lists the Presidents of Gallifrey in chronological order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Early presidents

 * Lord President Pandak
 * Lord President Rassilon
 * Lord President Pandad
 * Lord President Helron
 * Lady President Pandora
 * Lord President Morbius
 * The Imperator
 * Lord President Saran
 * Lord President Drall
 * Lord President Pandak II
 * Lord President Pandak III
 * Lord President Greyjan the Sane
 * Unnamed Lord President (PROSE: Birth of a Renegade)
 * Lord President Pundat the Third
 * Lord President Slann
 * Lord President Pandad VII
 * (Lord President) First Doctor (Alternate timeline; COMIC: Time & Time Again)

Under Borusa's influence

 * Pandad IV (up to TV: The Three Doctors - The Deadly Assassin)
 * Acting Lord President Borusa (TV: The Deadly Assassin - The Invasion of Time)
 * (Lord President) Fourth Doctor (TV: The Invasion of Time)
 * Lord President Borusa (TV: The Invasion of Time - The Five Doctors)

A Presidency in dispute

 * Acting Lady President Flavia (TV: The Five Doctors - PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
 * According to one account, Niroc defeats Flavia in an election, (PROSE: The Eight Doctors) while in another account, the the Fifth Doctor is called back to serve his presidency after Flavia is ousted. (AUDIO: Time in Office)


 * Lord President Niroc (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
 * (Lord President) Fifth Doctor (AUDIO: Time in Office)
 * Acting Lady President Lowri (AUDIO: Time in Office and beyond)
 * Unnamed Lord President (up to AUDIO: The Sirens of Time and beyond)
 * Lady President Flavia
 * (Lady President) Romana II (Up to PROSE: Happy Endings and beyond)
 * Unnamed Acting Lord President (up to AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element)

The Dogma virus and civil war

 * (Lady President) Romana II (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element - Imperiatrix)
 * Lady President Pandora (AUDIO: Imperiatrix - Warfare)
 * Lord President Valyes (AUDIO: Appropriation - Mindbomb)
 * Lord President Irving Braxiatel (AUDIO: Mindbomb)
 * Lord President Matthias (AUDIO: Mindbomb - Panacea and beyond)
 * Lady President Romana II (AUDIO: Ascension and beyond)

The War in Heaven

 * (Lady President) Romana III (up to AUDIO: Intervention Earth and beyond)
 * Head of the Presidency
 * Lord President Umbaste
 * The War King
 * Lolita
 * Lady President Romana II (AUDIO: Enemy Lines)

War on the horizon

 * Lady President Livia (AUDIO: Enemy Lines and beyond)
 * Unnamed Lord President (up to AUDIO: The Great War and beyond)
 * Unnamed President (up to AUDIO: The Eleven - Songs of Love)
 * Lord President Padrac (AUDIO: Songs of Love - Stop the Clock)

The Time War

 * Lady President Livia (up to AUDIO: Celestial Intervention - Desperate Measures)
 * In Celestial Intervention, Livia recently regenerated after an assassination attempt, possibly that of the unnamed president in Songs of Love.


 * Lord President Valerian (AUDIO: Desperate Measures)
 * Lord President "Rassilon the Resurrected" (AUDIO: Desperate Measures)
 * Lord President "War Rassilon" (AUDIO: Deception)
 * Lord President "Rassilon the Narrator" (TV: The End of Time)

Hiding away

 * Lord President "Rassilon the Redeemer" (TV: Hell Bent)
 * (Lord President) Twelfth Doctor (TV: Hell Bent)
 * Unnamed Lady President (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)