List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
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The office the Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
was created by the Royal Charter
of 1836, which gave birth of the University. The role of the vice-chancellorship at the University varies over the years in light of the successive changes to the constitution of the University of London, as well as greatly influenced by its federal nature. The following is a list of people who have been Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
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University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
was created by the Royal Charter
Royal Charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...
of 1836, which gave birth of the University. The role of the vice-chancellorship at the University varies over the years in light of the successive changes to the constitution of the University of London, as well as greatly influenced by its federal nature. The following is a list of people who have been Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
- 1836-1842 Sir John William LubbockSir John Lubbock, 3rd BaronetSir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet was an English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer.He was born in Westminster, the son of Sir John William Lubbock, of the Lubbock & Co bank. He was educated at Eton and then Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1825...
- 1842-1862 Sir John Shaw Lefevre FRS
- 1862-1871 George Grote FRSGeorge GroteGeorge Grote was an English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read.-Early life:He was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent...
- 1872-1880 Sir John LubbockJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
(Later Lord Avebury, son of the 1st Vice Chancellor) - 1881-1883 Sir George Jessel
- 1883-1895 Sir James Paget FRSJames PagetSir James Paget, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours and Lectures on Surgical Pathology...
- 1895-1896 Sir Julian GoldsmidSir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd BaronetSir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet was a British lawyer, businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1896....
- 1896-1902 Sir Henry Roscoe FRSHenry Enfield RoscoeSir Henry Enfield Roscoe, FRS was an English chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies.- Life and work :...
- 1902-1903 Dr Archibald RobertsonArchibald Robertson (bishop)The Right Reverend Archibald Robertson was the seventh Principal of King's College London who later served as Bishop of Exeter....
- 1903-1905 Dr Philip Henry Pye-SmithPhilip Henry Pye-SmithPhilip Henry Pye-Smith was a physician, medical scientist and educator. His interest was physiology, specialising in skin diseases....
- 1905-1907 Sir Edward Henry Busk
- 1907-1909 Sir William Collins KCVOWilliam Job CollinsSir William Job Collins KCVO was a surgeon and later a Liberal politician and legislator.-Background:...
- 1909-1911 Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill
- 1911-1912 Sir William Collins KCVOWilliam Job CollinsSir William Job Collins KCVO was a surgeon and later a Liberal politician and legislator.-Background:...
- 1912-1915 Sir Wilmot Herringham KCMG CBWilmot HerringhamSir Wilmot Parker Herringham KCMG CB was a British medical doctor, academic and author. He was one of the first doctors to investigate the effect and treatment of poison gas in World War I.-Life:...
- 1916-1917 Sir Alfred Pearce Gould KCVO CBE
- 1917-1919 Sir Cooper Perry
- 1919-1922 Sir Sydney Russell-Wells
- 1922-1924 Sir Holburt Jacob Waring Bt CBE FRCS
- 1926-1928 William BeveridgeWilliam BeveridgeWilliam Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...
, Baron Beveridge - 1928-1930 Sir Gregory FosterGregory FosterSir Gregory Foster was the Provost of University College London from 1904–1929, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1928 to 1930....
- 1930-1932 Dr J. Scott LidgettJohn Scott LidgettThe Reverend John Scott Lidgett, CH was a British Wesleyan Methodist minister and educationist. He achieved prominence both as a theologian and reformer within British Methodism, stressing the importance of the church's engagement with the whole of society and human culture, and as an effective...
- 1932-1933 John Leigh Smeathman Hatton
- 1933-1935 Louis Napoleon George Filon
- 1935-1937 Sir Herbert Eason CMG CB
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- 1945-1948 Sir David Hughes Parry
- 1948-1951 Dame Lillian PensonLillian PensonDame Lillian Penson, DBE was a professor of modern history at the University of London, and the first woman to serve as Vice-Chancellor of the university....
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- 1955-1958 Sir John Lockwood
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- 1967-1969 Sir Owen Saunders FRSOwen SaundersSir Owen Alfred Saunders, MA, DSc, HonFCGI, FREng, FIMECHE, FInsTP, FRAES, FInsTF, FIC, FRS was an English applied mathematician, engineering science academic, and university administrator.- Early life :...
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- 1972-1976 Sir Cyril PhilipsCyril PhilipsSir Cyril Henry Philips, December 27 1912 – December 29 2005, born in Worcester and knighted in 1974 was a noted historian and academic director.-Early life:...
- 1976-1978 Sir Frank Hartley CBE
- 1978-1981 Lord Annan
- 1981-1985 Sir Randolph Quirk CBE FBA
- 1985-1990 Lord FlowersBrian Flowers, Baron FlowersBrian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS was a British physicist and academican.-Early life and studies:The son of Reverend Harold Joseph Flowers, he was educated at the Bishop Gore School in Swansea and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts...
- 1990-1994 Lord SutherlandStewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of HoundwoodStewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, is a British academic and public servant and one of the UK's most distinguished philosophers of religion.He was educated at Robert Gordon's College...
- 1994-1997 Professor Andrew Rutherford CBE
- 1997-2003 Professor Graham J. Zellick CBE QC
- 2003-2010 Sir Graeme DaviesGraeme DaviesSir Graeme Davies, FREng, FRSNZ, FRSE is a New Zealand engineer, academic and administrator. He is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow and recently retired as Vice-Chancellor of the University of London in the United Kingdom.Davies graduated with a...
- 2010- Professor Geoffrey Crossick