University of Glasgow

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The University of Glasgow (English University of Glasgow; Latin: Universitatis Glasguensis ) is a reputed university in Glasgow. The University of Glasgow is part of the Russell Group of major British, leading research universities, the British equivalent of the American Ivy League, and annually receives numerous applications from all over the world due to their excellent reputation. The University is ranked among the top 1 % of the world and finished in 2012, the 54th rank in the QS World University Ranking.

General

The university was 1451 - founded by Pope Nicholas V - Following a proposal by King James II. This makes it the second oldest university in Scotland ( and the fourth oldest of Britain ) by the University of St Andrews, which is only about forty years older. Pope Nicholas V. then granted to the Glasgow Bishop William Turnbull permission to set up a university in his cathedral.

Famous graduates of the University of Glasgow, among them James Watt ( mathematician and engineer ), William Thomson ( physicist, better known as Lord Kelvin), Adam Smith ( economist and philosopher ), John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir ( journalist, author, lawyer, politician and Governor-General of Canada ) and John Knox ( between Reformation theologian and reformer of Scotland ). In addition, the following six Nobel Prize winners have studied at the University of Glasgow, taught or conducted research:

The university has over 23,000 students. More than 6,000 students are post- graduate students ( postgraduate studies ) and come from over 120 nations. Around 2,000 of the 6,000 employees are active researchers.

Management

Rector

The Rector (English official title " Lord Rector ", usually shortened to " Rector ") of the University of Glasgow is elected by the students every three years. The position was laid down by the Scottish " Universities Act" of 1889 for the then existing Scottish universities. Task of the Rector is to represent the interests of the students.

Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor

The Chancellor of the University in chronological order are:

  • William Turnbull ( 1451 )
  • Andrew de Durisdere ( 1455 )
  • John Laing ( 1474 )
  • Robert Blackadder ( 1483 )
  • James Beaton ( 1508)
  • Gavin Dunbar ( 1524)
  • James Beaton II (1551-1560)
  • John Porterfield (1571 )
  • James Boyd ( 1572)
  • Robert Montgomery ( 1581)
  • William Erskine (1585 )
  • Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre ( 1587 )
  • John Spottiswoode (1603 )
  • James Law ( 1615)
  • Patrick Lindsay ( 1633)
  • James Hamilton, 3rd Marquess of Hamilton ( 1642)
  • John Thurloe ( 1658)
  • William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn (1660 )
  • Andrew Fairfowl (1661 )
  • Alexander Burnet ( 1664)
  • Robert Leighton ( 1671)
  • Alexander Burnet ( 1674)
  • Arthur Ross ( 1679 )
  • Alexander Cairncross ( 1684)
  • John Paterson ( 1687 )
  • John Carmichael, 2nd Lord Carmichael (1692 )
  • James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose (1714 )
  • William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose ( 1743)
  • James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose (1781 )
  • James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose (1837 )
  • Sir William Stirling - Maxwell of Pollock (1875 )
  • Walter Montagu -Douglas -Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, 7th Duke of Queensberry (1878 )
  • John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair (1884 )
  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ( 1904)
  • Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1908 )
  • Sir Donald MacAlister, 1st Baronet (1929 )
  • Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson (1934-1944)
  • Sir John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd - Orr (1946 )
  • Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (1972 )
  • Sir William Kerr Fraser (1996 )
  • Professor Sir Kenneth Calman (2006)

The Vice-Chancellor (English " Principal" or "Vice - Chancellor " ) are:

  • Archibald Davidson ( 1785 )
  • William Taylor ( politician) (1803 )
  • Duncan MacFarlan (1823 )
  • Thomas Barclay (1858 )
  • John Caird (1873 )
  • Robert Story ( 1898)
  • Sir Donald MacAlister, 1st Baronet (1909 )
  • Sir Robert Sangster Rait (1929 )
  • Sir Hector Hetherington (1936 )
  • Sir Charles Haynes Wilson ( 1961)
  • Sir Alwyn Williams ( 1972)
  • Sir William Kerr Fraser (1988 )
  • Sir Graeme Davies ( 1995)
  • Sir Muir Russell ( 2003)
  • Anton Muscatelli (2009)
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