Regius Professor of Natural History (Aberdeen)

The Regius Professor of Natural History is a Regius Professorship at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. It was originally called the Regius Professor of Civil and Natural History at Marischal College until in 1860 Marischal College and King's Colleges merged to form the University of Aberdeen, and the title changed to Natural History.

class="wikitable" !Name!!Tenure
\|Francis Skene{{cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/aberdeenunivers05abergoog\|title=The Aberdeen University calendar, Part 1, 1898\|page=[https://archive.org/details/aberdeenunivers05abergoog/page/n23 12]\|publisher=Aberdeen }}{{cite book \|last=Anderson \|first=Peter John \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gigBAAAAYAAJ \|title=Officers of the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen, 1593-1860 \|year=1897 \|pages=46–50}}	11 January 1753 – 1775
\|George Skene	1775–88
\|William Morgan	10 May 1788 – 2 September 1788
James Beattie	22 October 1788 – 5 October 1810
Rev Robert Rainy	1811 – 10 April 1811
James (Jas) Davidson	1 July 1811 – 19 February 1841
\| William MacGillivray[https://archive.org/stream/jstor-4070924/4070924_djvu.txt A Biography of William MacGillivray]; Internet Archive; read 5 August 2014.{{Cite ODNB\|id=17513\|title=MacGillivray, William (1796–1852)}}	17 May 1841 – 5 September 1852
James Nicol{{cite ODNB\|id=20164\|title=James Nicol}}	15 September 1853 – 15 September 1860
colspan="2" \| Name change to Natural History
James Nicol	15 September 1860 – 1878
James Cossar Ewart[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U209195 Who Was Who]	1879-82
\| Henry Alleyne Nicholson[http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/n/henry_alleyne_nicholson.html Henry Alleyne Nicholson], www.theodora.com; read 5 August 2014.	1882–99
\| John Arthur ThomsonThe Edinburgh Gazette, 21 April 1899; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/11086/page/399 Scottish Office, Whitehall, 20 April 1899]; read 5 August 2014.	1899–1930
\| James RitchieAnnouncement of the nomination of [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v126/n3174/abs/126332a0.html James Ritchie] as Regius Professor of Natural History; Nature 30 August 1930; retrieved 11 August 2014.	1930–36
\|Lancelot Thomas HogbenThe London Gazette, 8 January 1937; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34358/page/164 Scottish Office, Whitehall, 6 January 1937]; retrieved 5 August 2014.	1937–41
\|Alister Clavering HardyThe Edinburgh Gazette, 8 January 1946; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/16297/page/15; Scottish Home Department]; retrieved 5 August 2014.	1942–45
Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards{{cite news \| url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/professor-vero-wynne-edwards-1.418616 \| title=Professor Vero Wynne-Edwards \| newspaper=HeraldScotland \| access-date=2011-01-26}}	1946–74
George Mackenzie Dunnet{{cite news \| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-george-dunnet-1602822.html \| title=Obituary: George Dunnet \| newspaper=The Independent \| access-date=2011-01-26 \| location=London \| first=P. A. \| last=Racey \| date=1995-09-25}}	1974–92
Paul Adrian Racey{{cite web \| url=http://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=paul_racey \| title=Paul Racey \| publisher=University of Exeter \| access-date=2011-01-26}}	1993–2009
Vacant	2009–14
Christopher John Secombes[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60788-2001850 Warrants Under the Royal Sign Manual], 21 February 2014; announcement of the Christopher John Secombes' nomination in The Gazette; retrieved 6 August 2014.Profile of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140808044358/http://www.aberdeenfertility.org.uk/people/profiles/c.secombes Christopher Secombes], website of the University of Aberdeen; retrieved 5 August 2014.	2014 onwards

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Natural History

Category:Natural history