Regius Professor Of Zoology, Glasgow
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The Regius Chair of Zoology is a Regius Professorship at the
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. It was founded in 1807 by George III of the United Kingdom as the Regius Chair of Natural History. In 1903, when the Chair of Geology was founded at Glasgow University, the title was changed to Zoology.


Regius Professors of Natural History/Regius Professors of Zoology

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Lockhart Muirhead Lockhart Muirhead (1765–1829) was a Scottish librarian, museum-keeper and academic. He was Regius Professor of Zoology at Glasgow University, from 1807. Life Muirhead travelled in Europe shortly before the French Revolution, and subsequently wro ...
MA LLD (1807) * William Couper MA MD (1829) * Henry Darwin Rogers MA LLD (1857) * John Young MD (1866) * Sir
John Graham Kerr Sir John Graham Kerr (18 September 1869 – 21 April 1957), known to his friends as Graham Kerr, was a British embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP). He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes. He was involv ...
MA LLD FRS (August 1902) * Edward Hindle MA PhD ScD FRS (1935) * Charles Maurice Yonge CBE PhD DSc FRS (1944) * David Richmond Newth BSc PhD (1965) * Keith Vickerman PhD DSc FRSE FRS (1984-1998) * 1998 - 2013 vacant * 2013 - now Pat MonaghanThe University of Glasgow Stor
Zoology (Regius Chair)
on the website of the University of Glasgow, read 21. January 2015.

University News, University of Glasgow; read 8. July 2015.


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* List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
Zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...
Professorships in zoology 1807 establishments in Scotland
Zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...
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