Patrick Sands

Patrick Sands (circa 1567–1635[1] was the third Principal of Edinburgh University, serving from 1620 until demitting office in 1622. He was a "layman who had been unsuccessful at the bar", and was appointed as Principal by the town council in 1620, in an act seen by some as "scandalous nepotism".[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Fasti%20Web%20pages/p.%2044%20Old%20Greyfriars.htm
  2. ↑ http://google.com/search?q=cache:mSuQIGVJdRoJ:www.scotchat.org/education/edu11.htm+%22patrick+sands%22+edinburgh&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=24
Academic offices
Preceded by
Henry Charteris		 Principals of Edinburgh University
1620–1622 		Succeeded by
Robert Boyd