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 Very Revd Prof 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 Lord Swann
- 1974 Sir Hugh Robson
- 1979 John Harrison Burnett
- 1987 Sir David Smith
- 1994 Lord Sutherland
- 2002 Sir Timothy O'Shea
