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