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List of Principals of the University of Edinburgh
Summary
Principals of the
University of Edinburgh
Robert Rollock
Sir
David Brewster
Sir
Edward Appleton
1586
Robert Rollock
(Regent from 1583 to 1586)
1599
Henry Charteris
1620
Patrick Sands
1622
Robert Boyd
1623
John Adamson
(died in office in 1652 but the original successor,
William Colvill
, was unable to take the position until 1662)
1653
Robert Leighton
1662
William Colvill
1675
Andrew Cant
1685
Alexander Monro
1690
Gilbert Rule
1703
William Carstares
1716
William Wishart (primus)
1730
William Hamilton
1732
James Smith
1736
William Wishart (secundus)
1754
John Gowdie
1762
William Robertson
1793
George Husband Baird
1840
John Lee
1859
David Brewster
1868
Alexander Grant
1885
William Muir
1903
William Turner
1916
Alfred Ewing
1929
Thomas Henry Holland
1944
John Fraser
1948
Edward Victor Appleton
1965
Michael Swann
1974
Hugh Robson
1979
John Harrison Burnett
1987
David Smith
1994
Stewart Sutherland
2002
Timothy O'Shea
2018
Peter Mathieson
See also
edit
Ancient university governance in Scotland
Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
Rector of the University of Edinburgh
External links
edit
University website