List of Principals of the University of Edinburgh

Principals of the University of Edinburgh

• 1586 Robert Rollock (previously Regent)
• 1599 Henry Charteris
• 1620 Patrick Sands
• 1622 Robert Boyd
• 1623 John Adamson (died in office in 1652 but successor unable to take position until 1653 since the original choice, William Colvill was unable to take up the position)
• 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 Sir David Brewster
• 1868 Sir Alexander Grant
• 1885 Sir William Muir
• 1903 Sir William Turner
• 1916 Sir Alfred James Ewing
• 1929 Sir Thomas Henry Holland
• 1944 Sir John Fraser
• 1948 Sir Edward Victor Appleton
• 1965 Michael Swann
• 1974 Hugh Robson
• 1979 John Harrison Burnett
• 1987 Sir David Smith
• 1994 Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood
• 2002 Sir Timothy O'Shea

External references

• University website