The vice-chancellor of the

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, and of its predecessor institutions, is the executive head of the university. The institution has changed its title three times in its history, from St David's College to St David's University College in 1971, then to the

University of Wales, Lampeter University of Wales, Lampeter () was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest Academic degree, degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited degree awarding powers sinc ...

in 1996, and more recently to the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, formed by the a merging of University of Wales, Lampeter, and

Trinity University College Trinity University College () was a Church University College in Carmarthen, Wales. The institution was founded in 1848 as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College, a teacher-training college. It changed its name in 1931 to Trinity ...

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, in 2010. Names of office-holders below are split up by institution.

Principals of St David's College

*1827 Llewelyn Lewellin (1798–1878) *1879 Francis John Jayne (1845–1921) (Also

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) *1886 Herbert Edward Ryle (1856–1925) (Also

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and

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) *1888 Charles Gresford Edmondes (1838–1893) *1892 John Owen (1854–1926) (Also Bishop of Saint David's) *1897 George William Gent (1852–1898) *1898

Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb Llewellyn John Montfort (or Montford) Bebb (16 February 1862 – 22 November 1915) was a British academic. Life Bebb was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony, the son of a clergyman, Revd. William Bebb, and educated at Winchester College. in 18 ...

(1862–1915) *1916

Gilbert Cunningham Joyce Gilbert Cunningham Joyce (7 April 1866 – 22 July 1942) was a university educator and Bishop of Monmouth. He was educated at Harrow School, and Brasenose College, Oxford. He took his BA in 1888, MA in 1892, BD in 1904, and DD in 1909. Aft ...

(1866–1942) (Also

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) *1923

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(1863–1957) *1938 Henry Kingsley Archdall (1886–1976) *1953

John Roland Lloyd Thomas John Roland Lloyd Thomas (22 February 1908 – 11 April 1984) was an Anglican priest and the Principal of St David's University College from 1953 to 1975. He was, himself, a graduate of St David's College, gaining a BA from the institution befor ...

(1908–1984)

Principals of St David's University College

*1971

(1908–1984) *1975 Brinley Rees (1919–2004) *1980 Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris (1930–2001) *1992

Keith Robbins Keith Gilbert Robbins (9 April 1940 – 12 September 2019) was a British historian and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter. Professor Robbins was educated at Bristol Grammar School, Magdalen, and St Antony's College, Oxford ...

(1940–2019)

Vice-chancellors of the University of Wales, Lampeter

*1996

(1940–2019) *2003 Robert A Pearce (1951–) *2008 Alfred Morris (1941–) *2009 Medwin Hughes (Also of

)

Vice-chancellors of the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David

*2010 Medwin Hughes *2023 Elwen Evans {{University of Wales University of Wales, Lampeter University of Wales Trinity Saint David Vice-chancellors by university in Wales

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