Regius Professor of Zoology

Professorship at the University of Glasgow

The Regius Chair of Zoology is a Regius Professorship at the University of Glasgow. It was founded in 1807 by George III of the United Kingdom as the Regius Chair of Natural History.[1] In 1903, when the Chair of Geology was founded at Glasgow University, the title was changed to Zoology.[1]

Regius Professors of Natural History/Regius Professors of Zoology

  • Lockhart Muirhead 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)[2]
  • 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)[1]
  • 1998 - 2013 vacant[1]
  • 2013 - now Pat Monaghan[3][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Pat Monaghan takes up Regius Chair of Zoology, University News, University of Glasgow; read 8. July 2015.
  2. ^ "Appointment". The Times. No. 36850. London. 19 August 1902. p. 7.
  3. ^ The University of Glasgow Story Zoology (Regius Chair); on the website of the University of Glasgow, read 21. January 2015.

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