Chancellor of The University of Glasgow - List of Chancellors

List of Chancellors

  • William Turnbull (1451)
  • Andrew de Durisdere (1456)
  • John Laing (1474)
  • Robert Blackadder (1483)
  • James Beaton (1508)
  • Gavin Dunbar (1524)
  • James Beaton II (1551–1560)
  • John Porterfield (1571)
  • James Boyd (1572)
  • Robert Montgomery (1581)
  • William Erskine (1585)
  • Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre (1587)
  • John Spottiswoode (1603)
  • James Law (1615)
  • Patrick Lindsay (1633)
  • James Hamilton, 3rd Marquess of Hamilton (1642)
  • John Thurloe (1658)
  • William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn (1660)
  • Andrew Fairfoul (1661)
  • Alexander Burnet (1664)
  • Robert Leighton (1672)
  • Alexander Burnet (1674)
  • Arthur Ross (1679)
  • Alexander Cairncross (1684)
  • John Paterson (1687)
  • John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford (1692)
  • James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose (1714)
  • William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose (1743)
  • James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose (1781)
  • James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose (1837)
  • Sir William Stirling-Maxwell of Pollock (1875)
  • Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1878)
  • John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair (1884)
  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1904) *
  • Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1908)
  • Sir Donald MacAlister, 1st Baronet (1929)
  • Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson (1934–1944)
  • Sir John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (1946) *
  • Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross(1972) *
  • Sir William Kerr Fraser (1996) *
  • Professor Sir Kenneth Calman (2006) *
* denotes alumnus

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