Difference between revisions of "Principal (office of)"
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Revision as of 11:07, 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 (1555-1599) (previously Regent)
1599 Henry Charteris (c1565–1628)
1620 Patrick Sands (c1567-1635)
1623 John Adamson (1576–1651?)
1652 William Colville (d. 1675) (did not take up office)
1653 Robert Leighton (c1611-1684)
1662 William Colville (d. 1675)
1675 Andrew Cant
1685 Alexander Monro (c1648-1698)
1690 Gilbert Rule (c1629-1701)
1703 William Carstares (1649-1715)
1716 William Wishart "primus" (1660-1729)
1730 William Hamilton (1660-1729)
1736 William Wishart "secundus" (c1692-1753)
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