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Revision as of 10:58, 21 July 2014
The Principal and Vice-Chancellor is the most senior member of University staff. From 1585-1620 it was combimed with the role of Rector. The 'Vice-Chancellor' element of the title emerged from the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858.
Chronological list
1586 Robert Rollock (previously Regent)
1599 Henry Charteris
1620 Patrick Sands
1622 Robert Boyd
1623 John Adamson
1652 William Colville (did not take up office)
1653 Robert Leighton (c.1611-1684)
1662 William Colville
1675 Andrew Cant
1685 Alexander Monro
1690 Gilbert Rule (c1629-1701)
1703 William Carstares
1730 William Hamilton
1732 James Smith
1736 William Wishart "secundus"
1754 John Gowdie
1762 William Robertson (1721-1793)
1793 George Husband Baird (1761-1840)
1840 John Lee
1859 Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
1868 Sir Alexander Grant
1885 Sir William Muir
1903 Sir William Turner
1916 Sir Alfred James Ewing (1855-1935)
1929 Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1868-1947)
1944 Sir John Fraser (1885-1947)
1948 Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965)
1965 Sir Michael Meredith Swann (1920-1990)
1974 Sir Hugh Norwood Robson (1917-1977)
1979 Sir John Harrison Burnett (1922-2007)
1987 Sir David Smith
1994 Sir Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood
2002 Sir Timothy O'Shea