Rick Trainor

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Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor FKC is Professor of Social History and the current Principal of King's College London.

Trainor holds degrees from Brown University (BA), Princeton University (MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Trinity College of Music.

Trainor was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich and, before that, Senior Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow.

He is married to Dr Marguerite Dupree, an academic currently at Glasgow University [1] with two children of school age, Richard and Meg.

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  • Both Rick Trainor and the Duke of Wellington (who fought a duel over the founding of King's College London) are, or were, members of the prestigious Athenaeum Club.

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