The Chancellor is the titular head of the

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and President of the General Council, by whom they are elected. The office is intended to be held for life. Their principal duty is to confer degrees upon those presented to them by the

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, although this role is usually carried out by the

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, the appointment of whom is the Chancellor's second-most important duty. The current Chancellor is Dame Katherine Grainger, the first woman to hold the office.

History

From the University's establishment in 1451, the office was held by the

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, except in the case of Lord Blantyre, who held all the powers of the Archbishop as 'Lord of Glasgow'. This trend ceased with the appointment of the Duke of Hamilton as Chancellor in 1642, although resumed from 1661 to 1692 for a subsequent run of seven archbishops, from Andrew Fairfoul to John Paterson. Five of the eight Chancellors in the past hundred years have been alumni of the University. The Earl of Roseberry, a former

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, was educated at Oxford; Sir Daniel Macauley Stevenson did not attend university but was a generous benefactor of the University; and Sir Donald MacAlister, who studied at the

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served as Principal between 1909 and 1929. Sir William Kerr Fraser had also been Principal prior to his appointment and, other than the most recent two chancellors, is the only holder in the past hundred years not to have died in office.

List of chancellors

* William Turnbull (1451) *

Andrew de Durisdere Andrew de Durisdeer ''Durisdere(possibly Andrew Muirhead; died 20 November 1473) was a 15th-century bishop of Glasgow. The geographical appellation "de Durisdeer" indicates that he came from Durisdeer in Galloway. Durisdeer is often taken as ...

(1456) * John Laing (1474) *

Robert Blackadder Robert Blackadder was a medieval Scottish cleric, diplomat and politician, who was abbot of Melrose, bishop-elect of Aberdeen and bishop of Glasgow; when the last was elevated to archiepiscopal status in 1492, he became the first ever archbisho ...

(1483) *

James Beaton James Beaton (or Bethune) (1473–1539) was a Roman Catholic Scottish church leader, the uncle of David Cardinal Beaton and the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. Life James Beaton was the sixth and youngest son of John Beaton of Balfour ...

(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) *

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(1658) * William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn (1660) * Andrew Fairfoul (1661) *

Alexander Burnet Bishop Alexander Burnet (1615–1684) was a Scottish clergyman. Life Born in the summer of 1615 to James Burnet and Christian née Dundas, he gained an MA from the University of Edinburgh in 1633. He chose to follow the career of his father, wh ...

(1664) * Robert Leighton (1672) *

(1674) * Arthur Ross (1679) * Alexander Cairncross (1684) * John Paterson (1687) * John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford (1692) *

James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose James Graham, 1st Duke and 4th Marquess of Montrose (April 16827 January 1742) was a Scottish aristocratic statesman in the early eighteenth century. Life He was the only son of James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose and Lady Christian Leslie ...

(1714) * William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose (1743) *

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(1781) *

James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose, KT, PC (16 July 1799 – 30 December 1874), styled Marquess of Graham until 1836, of Buchanan Castle in Stirlingshire (re-built by him in 1852–8) and 45 Belgrave Square in London, was a British Conserva ...

(1837) * Sir William Stirling-Maxwell of Pollock (1875) *

Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, 7th Duke of Queensberry, (born Walter Francis Montagu-Scott; 25 November 1806 – 16 April 1884), styled Lord Eskdail between 1808 and 1812 and Earl of Dalkeith between 1812 and 18 ...

(1878) * John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair (1884) *

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, Mathematical physics, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy (Glasgow), Professor of Natural Philoso ...

(1904) * *

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death o ...

(1908) * Sir Donald MacAlister, 1st Baronet (1929) * Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson (1934–1944) *

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarde ...

(1946) * * Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (1972) * * Sir William Kerr Fraser (1996) * * Professor Sir Kenneth Calman (2006) * * Dame Katherine Grainger (2020) * :* denotes alumni

References

External links

University of Glasgow :: Facts and Figures :: Chancellor

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History

List of chancellors

See also

References

External links