Rector of the University of St Andrews

The Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews is a university official chosen every three years by the students of the University of St Andrews. Seldom referred to as Lord Rector, he or she is more commonly known simply as the Rector, the office having been created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom when it passed the Universities Act 1858, which regulated academic governance and provided for the election of a Rector at all of the universities in existence at the time in Scotland. To this day it is only the four ancient universities of Scotland: University of St Andrews, University of Glasgow, University of Aberdeen, and University of Edinburgh, as well as the University of Dundee, that elect a rector, whereas modern universities do not.

List of Rectors

• 1859-1862 Sir Ralph Anstruther
• 1862-1865 William Stirling-Maxwell
• 1865-1868 John Stuart Mill
• 1868-1871 James Anthony Froude
• 1872-1874 Charles Neaves
• 1874-1877 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
• 1877-1880 Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
• 1880-1883 Sir Theodore Martin
• 1884-1886 Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
• 1886-1889 Arthur Balfour
• 1889-1892 Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
• 1892-1898 John...... ...
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