Regius Professor of Zoology, Glasgow

Regius Professor of Zoology, Glasgow

The Regius Chair of Zoology is a Regius Professorship at the University of Glasgow. It was founded in 1807 by King George III of Great Britain as the Regius Chair of Natural History. In 1903, when the Chair of Geology was founded at Glasgow University, the title was changed to Zoology

Regius Professors of Natural History/Regius Professors of Zoology

* Lockhart Muirhead MA LLD (1807)
* William Couper MA MD (1829)
* Henry Darwin Rogers MA LLD (1857)
* John Young MD (1866)
* Sir John Graham Kerr MA LLD FRS (1902)
* Edward Hindle MA PhD ScD FRS (1935)
* Charles Maurice Yonge CBE PhD DSc FRS (1944)
* David Richmond Newth BSc PhD (1965)
* Keith Vickerman PhD DSc FRSE FRS (1984-1988)

ee also

*List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow


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