Rector of The University of Edinburgh - List of Rectors

List of Rectors

• 1859 William Ewart Gladstone, M.P.
• 1865 Thomas Carlyle
• 1868 Sir James Moncreiff, 1st Bt.
• 1871 Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Bt., M.P.
• 1874 The 15th Earl of Derby
• 1877 The Marquess of Hartington, M.P.
• 1880 The 5th Earl of Rosebery
• 1883 Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Bt., M.P. (from 1885 Earl of Iddesleigh)
• 1887 The 9th Marquess of Lothian
• 1890 George Goschen, M.P.
• 1893 Baron Robertson
• 1896 The 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
• 1899 The 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
• 1902 Sir Robert Finlay, M.P.
• 1905 Richard Haldane, M.P.
• 1908 George Wyndham, M.P.
• 1911 The 4th Earl of Minto
• 1914 Field Marshal The 1st Earl Kitchener
• 1917 Admiral Sir David Beatty (promoted Admiral of the Fleet in May 1919 and created The 1st Earl Beatty in Oct. 1919).
• 1920 David Lloyd George, M.P.
• 1923 Stanley Baldwin, M.P.
• 1926 Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Bt., M.P.
• 1929 Winston Churchill, M.P.
• 1932 General Sir Ian Hamilton
• 1935 Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Allenby
• 1936 Sir Herbert J.C. Grierson
• 1939 Sir J. Donald Pollock
• 1945 Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
• 1948 Alastair Sim
• 1951 Sir Alexander Fleming
• 1954 Sir Sydney A. Smith
• 1957 James Robertson Justice
• 1960 Jo Grimond, M.P.
• 1963 James Robertson Justice
• 1966 Malcolm Muggeridge
• 1969 Kenneth Allsop
• 1972 Jonathon W.G. Wills
• 1973 Gordon Brown
• 1976 Magnús Magnússon
• 1979 Fr. Anthony Ross
• 1982 David Steel, M.P.
• 1985 Archie Macpherson
• 1988 Muriel Gray
• 1991 Donnie Munro
• 1994 Malcolm Macleod
• 1997 John Mark Colquhoun
• 2000 Robin Harper, M.S.P.
• 2003 Sir Tam Dalyell, 11th Bt., M.P.
• 2006 Mark Ballard, M.S.P.
• 2009 Iain Macwhirter
• 2012 Peter McColl