[1] There is a discrepancy on the current official list over SRU presidents over the World War periods.
Other sources have Scott as the president throughout the First World War.
[2] In an omission, Patrick Munro is currently excluded from the official list of presidents altogether.
Newspaper reports of the time state he was president.
[2] In this list we have taken Scott to be president throughout the First World War, added Patrick Munro and given Harry Smith the position from 1942, following the clarity of Forsyth's Rugby Record of the time.