The office of Vice-Chancellor of the University of London was created by the Royal Charter of 1836, which founded the university. The role of the vice-chancellorship at the university has varied over the years in light of the successive changes to the constitution of the University of London, and has been greatly influenced by its federal nature. The following is a list of people who have been vice-chancellor of the University of London.
Vice-chancellors
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1836–1842 Sir John William Lubbock
1842–1862 Sir John Shaw Lefevre
1862–1871 George Grote
1872–1880 Sir John Lubbock (Later Lord Avebury, son of the 1st Vice Chancellor) 1881–1883 Sir George Jessel 1883–1895 Sir James Paget 1895–1896 Sir Julian Goldsmid 1896–1902 Sir Henry Roscoe 1902–1903 Archibald Robertson 1903–1905 Philip Henry Pye-Smith 1905–1907 Sir Edward Henry Busk 1907–1909 Sir William Collins 1909–1911 Micaiah John Muller Hill 1911–1912 Sir William Collins 1912–1915 Sir Wilmot Herringham 1916–1917 Sir Alfred Pearce Gould 1917–1919 Sir (Edwin) Cooper Perry 1919–1922 Sir Sydney Russell-Wells 1922–1924 Sir Holburt Jacob Waring 1924–1926 Ernest Arthur Gardner 1926–1928 William Beveridge, Baron Beveridge 1928–1930 Sir Gregory Foster 1930–1932 J. Scott Lidgett 1932–1933 John Leigh Smeathman Hatton 1933–1935 Louis Napoleon George Filon 1935–1937 Sir Herbert Lightfoot Eason 1937–1939 Sir Robert Howson Pickard 1939–1945 Frank Horton 1945–1948 Sir David Hughes Parry 1948–1951 Dame Lillian Penson 1951–1953 Hugh Hale Bellot 1953–1954 Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Maxwell Hill 1955–1958 Sir John Francis Lockwood 1958–1961 Sir Charles Felix Harris 1961–1964 Sir Peter Scott Noble 1964–1967 Sir Thomas Percival Creed 1967–1969 Sir Owen Saunders 1969–1972 Sir Brian Windeyer 1972–1976 Sir Cyril Philips 1976–1978 Sir Frank Hartley 1978–1981 Noel Annan, Baron Annan 1981–1985 Sir Randolph Quirk 1985–1990 Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers 1990–1994 Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood 1994–1997 Andrew Rutherford 1997–2003 Graham J Zellick 2003–2010 Sir Graeme Davies 2010–2012 Geoffrey Crossick 2012–2018 Prof Sir Adrian Smith 2018–2019 Peter Kopelman (Interim/Acting) 2019– Wendy Thomson |}
References
Negley Harte, The University of London, 1836–1986: An illustrated history (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: The Athlone Press, 1986) University of London, The historical record (1836–1912) being a supplement to the Calendar completed to September 1912 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912)