List of Principals of the University of Edinburgh

Principals of the University of Edinburgh




 * 1586 Robert Rollock (Regent from 1583 to 1586)
 * 1599 Henry Charteris
 * 1620 Patrick Sands
 * 1622 Robert Boyd
 * 1623 John Adamson (died in office in 1652 but the original successor, William Colvill, was unable to take the position until 1662)
 * 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 David Brewster
 * 1868 Alexander Grant
 * 1885 William Muir
 * 1903 William Turner
 * 1916 Alfred Ewing
 * 1929 Thomas Henry Holland
 * 1944 John Fraser
 * 1948 Edward Victor Appleton
 * 1965 Michael Swann
 * 1974 Hugh Robson
 * 1979 John Harrison Burnett
 * 1987 David Smith
 * 1994 Stewart Sutherland
 * 2002 Timothy O'Shea
 * 2018 Peter Mathieson