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Titular head of the University of St Andrews
The
Chancellor of the University of St Andrews
is the
titular head
of the
University of St Andrews
. Their duties include conferring
degrees
, promoting the university's image throughout the world, and furthering the university's interests worldwide.
[1]
The Chancellor does have the power to refuse an "improvement in the internal arrangements of the University", however, there is no evidence of any Chancellor using this effective
veto
over the University Court.
[2]
: 12(2)
The Office of the Chancellor has existed since the foundation of the university in the 15th century, and no comprehensive definition of its powers has been made in any modern statute. The remit and powers of the Chancellor were described by Royal Commission on the Universities and Colleges of Scotland, which described the Chancellor of St Andrews thus:
"The Chancellor is the Head of the University... He is consulted, however, on all public matters relative to its welfare, and he is also Conservator of its privileges. By the foundation charters the power of conferring degrees is vested in him: but this he may exercise either personally when present or by his depute when absent, with the advice of the doctors and masters of the University".
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Order XLIX, Commission for Visiting the Universities and Colleges of Scotland
[3]
Section 2 of the
Universities (Scotland) Act 1858
provides that the Chancellor is to be elected by the
General Council
, to hold office for life, although
Sir Kenneth Dover
retired in 2005.
[2]
: Section 2
[4]
With the exception of Dover, every Chancellor of the university has been either an
archbishop
or a
peer
. The Chancellor is the
President
of the General Council which meets twice each year, in recent years once in
St Andrews
and once elsewhere in the
United Kingdom
.
[5]
[6]
The Chancellor appoints an Assessor to be a member of the university's governing body, the
University Court
.
[1]
List of chancellors of the University of St Andrews
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- 1413?1440
Henry Wardlaw
,
Bishop of St Andrews
- 1440?1465
James Kennedy
, Bishop of St Andrews
- 1465?1478
Patrick Graham
,
Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1478?1497
William Scheves
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1497?1504
James, Duke of Ross
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1504?1513
Alexander Stewart
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1514?1521
Andrew Forman
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1522?1539
James Beaton
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1539?1546
David Beaton
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1547?1571
John Hamilton
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1572?1574
John Douglas
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1576?1592
Patrick Adamson
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1592?1595
John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane
- 1597?1598
John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir
- 1599?1604
John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose
- 1604?1615
George Gledstanes
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1615?1639
John Spottiswoode
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1643?1661
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun
- 1661?1679
James Sharp
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1679?1684
Alexander Burnet
, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1684?1689
Arthur Ross, Archbishop of St Andrews
- 1697?1724
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
- 1724?1744
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
- 1746?1765 HRH
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
- 1765?1787
Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull
- 1788?1811
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
- 1811?1814 HRH
Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge
- 1814?1851
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville
- 1851?1900
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
- 1900?1922
Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
- 1922?1928
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
of Bemersyde
- 1928
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
- 1929?1947
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
- 1948?1973
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
- 1973?1980
Bernard Edward Fergusson
,
Brigadier
The Lord Ballantrae
- 1981?2005 Sir
Kenneth Dover
[4]
- 2006?
Walter Menzies Campbell
, The Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
[1]
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