The Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh is elected every three years by the students and staff at The University of Edinburgh. Seldom referred to...
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Aberdeen and Edinburgh). Students of the University of Dundee also elect a rector. The latest rectorial election was concluded on the 26th of March 2024...
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school. Outside the English-speaking world, the rector is often the most senior official in a university, while in the United States, the equivalent is...
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Simon Fanshawe (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
and helped found the LGB Alliance later that year. On 13 February 2024 Fanshawe was confirmed as Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Only one valid...
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The University of Edinburgh (Scots: University o Edinburgh, Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public...
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Ancient university governance in Scotland Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh Rector of the University of Edinburgh "Factsheet 1 - University Principals"...
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Mark Ballard (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
Party from 2007 to 2010. He was Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh from 2006 to 2009, and now works for the National Deaf Children's Society Ballard...
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governance in Scotland Principal of the University of Edinburgh Rector of the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh University Library: PARQs: U to Z. Lib.ed.ac...
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Rector of the University of Edinburgh Rector (politics) Rector (Ragusa), an official in the government of the Republic of Ragusa Rector (Islam) – the...
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Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) is the students' union at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The Association's aim is the advancement...
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Iain Macwhirter (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
presenter and a former Rector of Edinburgh University. He has worked at both the UK Parliament and Scottish Parliament, presenting the BBC2 programmes Westminster...
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Alastair Sim (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
elocution at the University of Edinburgh in 1925. He also ran his own private elocution and drama school, from which, with the help of the playwright John...
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James Robertson Justice (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
helping to launch Scottish Television (STV) and serving as Rector of the University of Edinburgh (1957–60 and 1963–66). Despite his later Scottish claims...
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Donnie Munro (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
elected as Rector of the University of Edinburgh in 1991, a position he held until 1994. His political aspirations necessitated his leaving the band, which...
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canons by David I in 1128. The Grammar School of the Church of Edinburgh, as it was known by the time Adam de Camis was rector in 1378, grew into a church-run...
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Magnus Magnusson (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
chairman of the Scottish Churches Architectural Heritage Trust in 1978 (it became Scotland's Churches Trust in 2012). He was Lord Rector of Edinburgh University...
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Muriel Gray (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
was the first woman to have been Rector of the University of Edinburgh and is the first female chair of the board of governors at Glasgow School of Art...
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Debora Kayembe (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
elected as Rector". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 8 March 2021. "DRC: Meet Debora Kayembe, new rector at University of Edinburgh". The Africa Report...
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Sydney Smith (forensic pathologist) (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
the Polish government after the war. The school was disbanded in 1949. In 1946, Smith was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh. He was Rector...
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Alexander Fleming (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928. In 1951 he was elected the Rector of the University of Edinburgh for a term of three years...
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election of a Rector for the universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St Andrews. The newer University of Dundee also elects a Rector due to its...
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Robin Harper (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
Scotland. He served as Rector of the University of Edinburgh 2000–2003. Harper was an Honorary President of the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group. He...
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James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
1869. He was Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1868 to 1871, and held the degrees of LLD from both Edinburgh and Glasgow universities. Moncreiff...
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Ann Henderson (campaigner) (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
campaigner in the labour movement and former Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Henderson graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in...
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Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the club's annual dinner. In November 1902 he was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh...
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Thomas Carlyle (redirect from Progress of the Species Magazines)
to the creation of the National Portrait Galleries in London and Scotland, was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1865, and received the Pour...
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Society in 1875 and Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1883, in which capacity he addressed the students on the subject of "Desultory Reading". From 1886...
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Tam Dalyell (redirect from Devolution: The End of Britain?)
as a war criminal and sent to The Hague". On 7 March 2003, Dalyell was elected as Rector of the University of Edinburgh. After a three-year term, he was...
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Jo Grimond (redirect from Baron Grimond of Firth)
held the Rectorships of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen and the Chancellorship of the University of Kent at Canterbury (elected...
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Malcolm Muggeridge (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
been elected Rector of Edinburgh University, Muggeridge was goaded[citation needed] by the editor of The Student, Anna Coote, to support the call for contraceptive...
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