In 1882, the Arya Samaj and the TS separated, and the name of the lodge was changed to British Theosophical Society.
The first president of the British TS was Charles Carleton Massey from 27 June 1878 to 6 January 1883.
In 1890 Blavatsky founded the European Section of the Theosophical Society, of which the London Lodge was only nominally a member.
Charles Webster Leadbeater became, on 21 November 1883, a member of the London Lodge.
Because of the Leadbeater scandal, the London Lodge separated itself from the TS in February 1909 for two years, and temporarily changed its name to The Eleusinian Society.