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

* [http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/collections/specdivision/euafs1.shtml University website]