List of Principals of the University of Edinburgh

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

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