Regius Professor Of Zoology
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The Regius Chair of Zoology is a
Regius Professor A Regius Professor is a university Professor (highest academic rank), professor who has, or originally had, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Republic ...
ship at the
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. It was founded in 1807 by
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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

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Lockhart Muirhead Lockhart Muirhead (1765–1829) was a Scottish librarian, museum-keeper and academic. He was Regius Professor of Zoology at Glasgow University, from 1807. Life Muirhead travelled in Europe shortly before the French Revolution, and subsequently ...
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 (August 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 (1984-1998) * 1998 - 2013 vacant *
Pat Monaghan Patricia Monaghan is a British ornithologist who is Regius Professor of Zoology in the School of biodiversity, one health & veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow. Education Monaghan was educated at Durham University where her PhD ...
PhD FRES FRSThe University of Glasgow Stor
Zoology (Regius Chair)
on the website of the University of Glasgow, read 21. January 2015.

University News, University of Glasgow; read 8. July 2015.
(2013 - now)


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See also

* List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...
Professorships in zoology 1807 establishments in Scotland
Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...
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