The Regius Chair of Zoology is a

Regius Professor A Regius Professor is a university Professor (highest academic rank), professor who has, or originally had, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Republic ...

ship at the

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. It was founded in 1807 by

George III of the United Kingdom George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great ...

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

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 ...

MA LLD (1807) * William Couper MA MD (1829) *

Henry Darwin Rogers Henry Darwin Rogers Fellow of the Royal Society of London, FRS Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE LLD (1 August 1808 – 26 May 1866) was an American geologist. His book, ''The Geology of Pennsylvania: A Government Survey'' (1858), ...

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 invol ...

MA LLD FRS (August 1902) *

Edward Hindle Edward Hindle FRS FRSE FIB FRGS FRPSG (21 March 1886–22 January 1973) was a British biologist and entomologist who was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow from 1935 to 1943. He specialised in the study of parasites. E ...

MA PhD ScD FRS (1935) *

Charles Maurice Yonge Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, CBE, FRS FRSE (9 December 1899 – 17 March 1986) was an English marine zoologist. Life Charles Maurice Yonge was born in Silcoates School near Wakefield in Yorkshire in 1899 the son of John Arthur Yonge (1865–1 ...

CBE PhD DSc FRS (1944) * David Richmond Newth BSc PhD (1965) *

Keith Vickerman Keith Vickerman was a British zoologist born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was Regius Professor of Zoology in the University of Glasgow, 1984–98.‘VICKERMAN, Prof. Keith’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing p ...

PhD DSc FRSE FRS (1984-1998) * 1998 - 2013 vacant *

Pat Monaghan Patricia Monaghan is a British ornithologist who is Regius Professor of Zoology in the School of biodiversity, one health & veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow. Education Monaghan was educated at Durham University where her PhD ...

PhD FRES FRSThe 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. (2013 - now)

Regius Professors of Natural History/Regius Professors of Zoology

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