The Lord Rector of Edinburgh University is elected every three years by the students and staff at the University of Edinburgh. Seldom referred to as Lord Rector, the incumbent is more commonly known just as the Rector. The position's place in the university was codified by statute of the Westminster Parliament, the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889, which provided for the election of a Rector at all universities then in existence in Scotland. To this day only the ancient universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St Andrews plus the newer Dundee, elect a Rector; the 20th century universities do not. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic) Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic and Scots1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... The Ancient universities of Scotland are those universities founded during the medieval period, and comprise (list by year of being chartered): The University of St Andrews, founded 1411 by papal bull The University of Glasgow, founded 1451 by papal bull The University of Aberdeen, founded 1495 by papal bull (as... Master of Theology (MTh) Dentistry Nursing Affiliations Russell Group, Universitas 21 Website http://www. ... The University of Aberdeen was founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland. ... St Marys College Bute Medical School St Leonards College[5][6] Affiliations 1994 Group Website http://www. ... The University of Dundee is the principal university in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee, Scotland. ...

List of Rectors

• 1859 Rt.Hon. William Gladstone
• 1865 Thomas Carlyle
• 1868 Lord Moncreiff
• 1871 Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Bart.,
• 1874 Earl of Derby
• 1877 The Marquess of Hartington
• 1880 Earl of Rosebery
• 1883 Sir Stafford Northcote (from 1885 Earl of Iddesleigh)
• 1887 The Marquess of Lothian
• 1890 Rt.Hon. George Joachim Goschen
• 1893 Rt.Hon. James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
• 1896 Lord Balfour of Burleigh
• 1899 The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
• 1902 Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay
• 1905 Rt.Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane
• 1908 Rt.Hon. George Wyndham
• 1911 The Earl of Minto
• 1914 Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
• 1917 Earl Beatty
• 1920 Rt.Hon. David Lloyd George
• 1923 Rt.Hon. Stanley Baldwin
• 1926 Rt.Hon. Sir John Gilmour
• 1929 Rt.Hon. Winston Churchill
• 1932 General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
• 1935 Viscount Allenby
• 1936 Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson
• 1939 Sir J. Donald Pollock
• 1945 Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
• 1948 Alastair Sim
• 1951 Sir Alexander Fleming
• 1954 Sir Sydney A. Smith
• 1957 James Robertson Justice
• 1960 Jo Grimond
• 1963 James Robertson Justice
• 1966 Malcolm Muggeridge
• 1969 Kenneth Allsop
• 1972 Jonathon W.G. Wills
• 1973 Gordon Brown
• 1976 Magnus Magnusson
• 1979 Very Rev. Anthony Ross
• 1982 Rt.Hon. David Steel
• 1985 Archie MacPherson
• 1988 Muriel Gray
• 1991 Donnie Munro
• 1994 Malcolm Macleod
• 1997 John Colquhoun
• 2000 Robin Harper MSP
• 2003 Sir Tam Dalyell
• 2006 Mark Ballard

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References

• List of rectors. Previously Answered Reference Questions. Edinburgh University Library. Retrieved on 2006-02-19.
• Wintersgill, Donald (2005). The Rectors of the University of Edinburgh 1859-2000. Dunedin Academic Press. ISBN 1-903765-44-7.