Former Principal Officers

Former Principal Officers - 2023/2024

Chancellors

1962‑1964	*The Rt Hon the Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax,JP, DL, HonLLD
1965‑1984	*The Rt Hon the Lord Franks of Headington, OM, GCMG, KCB, KCVO, CBE, PC, MA, HonDCL, FBA, DL
1984-1994	*The Reverend Professor William Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE,DD, FBA, HonLittD
1994-2003	Professor Sir Geoffrey Allen, Kt, PhD, FRS, FREng, FRSC, FInstP
2003-2012	*Sir Brandon Gough, DL, MA, BA, FCA
2012-2016	Dame Rose Tremain, CBE, FRSL
2016-2023	Dame Karen Jones, CBE

Pro-Chancellors and Chair of the Council

1964‑1973	*Sir Edmund Bacon, Bt, KG, KBE, TD, HonDCL
1973‑1985	Sir Timothy Colman, KG, JP, HonDCL
1985-1990	*Colonel Geoffrey Seymour Hamilton Dicker, CBE, TD, DL, HonDCL
1990-1997	Raymond Charles Frostick, DL, MA, LLM, HonDCL
1997-2006 2006-2010	David McCall, CBE, DL, FRTS, FRSA Stuart Holmes, FCA
2010-2016	Richard Jewson, JP, MA, Hon DCL
2016-2020	Joseph Greenwell, CBE, DL
2020-2021	Laura McGillivray

Pro-Chancellors

1986‑2000	Sir Timothy Colman, KG, JP, HonDCL
1997-2002	Raymond Charles Frostick, DL, MA, LLM, HonDCL
2002-2010	Richard Jewson, JP, MA, Hon DCL
2010-2016	Stuart Holmes, FCA

Vice-Chancellors

1961‑1980	*Professor Frank Thistlethwaite, CBE, MA, HonDCL, HonLHD, HonFRIBA, FRHistS
1980‑1986	Professor Sir Michael Warwick Thompson, BSc, DSc, FInstP
1987-1995	*Professor Derek Clissold Burke, CBE, BSc, PhD, DL, HonLLD,HonScD
1995-1997	Dame Elizabeth Anne Loosemore Esteve-Coll, DBE, BA, HonDArts, HonDLitt, HonDUniv, HonDUniv, HonLittD, FRSA, FRCA, HonFRIBA
1997-2002	Vincent Watts, OBE, MA, MSc, FCA, FIMC, HonLittD
2002-2006	Professor David Eastwood, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, HonLittD
2006-2008	Professor William Macmillan, BSc, MA, PhD
2009-2014	Professor Edward David Joseph Acton, BA, PhD
2014-2022	Professor David Richardson, BSC (Keele), PhD (Birmingham)

Treasurers

1964‑1970	*The Rt Hon the Earl of Cranbrook, CBE, JP, DL, HonMA
1970‑1973	Sir Timothy Colman, KG, JP, HonDCL
1973‑1976	*William Rowan Hare, CBE, JP, MA, HonDCL
1976‑1985	*Colonel Geoffrey Seymour Hamilton Dicker, CBE, TD, DL, HonDCL
1985-1990	Raymond Charles Frostick, MA, LLM, DL, HonDCL
1990-1994	Alan John Bowkett, BSc(Econ), MBA
1994-1997	David McCall, CBE, DL, FRTS, RSA
1997-2006	Stuart Holmes, FCA
2007-2016	Jonathan Sisson, FCA
2016-2023	Mark Williams, BA (Hons), MSc (East Anglia), ATT, CTA, CLD

Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor

1989-1995	Professor John Rex Tarrant, BSc, PhD
2009-2012	Professor Tom Ward, BSc, MSc, PhD
2013-2021	Professor Neil Ward, BSc, PhD

Pro-Vice-Chancellors

1964‑1968	Professor Claud Richard Ross, CB, MA
1968‑1971	*Professor James Walter McFarlane, MA, BLitt, HonLittD, HonDLitt
1969‑1971	Professor Roy Hutcheson Campbell, MA, PhD
1971‑1973	*Professor Keith Martin Clayton, CBE, MSc, PhD
1971‑1974	*Professor James Rees Jones, MA, PhD
1973‑1976	*Professor Thomas Peter Hill, MA
1974‑1979	Professor John Walter James Fletcher, MA, Dipd'EtSup, Dr 3eCycle
1976‑1981	Professor Malcolm John Frazer, BSc, PhD, CChem
1979‑1983	*Professor James Rees Jones, MA, PhD
1981‑1985	*Professor Norman Edward Cusack, BSc, PhD, FInstP
1983‑1986	John David Elsworth, MA, PhD
1985‑1988	John Rex Tarrant, BSc, PhD
1986-1989	Professor Roy Anthony Church, BA, PhD, FRHistS
1988-1990	*Professor Peter Moseley Stocker, MSc, FIMA, FBCS, CEng
1989-1992	Professor John Gareth Miller, LLB, LLM, LLM, PhD, Solicitor
1992-1995	*Professor James Martin Hollis, MA, FBA
1995-1996	Professor Geoffrey Brown, CertEd, AdvDipEd, MEd, PhD, FBPsS, ChPsych
1990-1997	Richard Arnold Yardley Jones, MA, PhD, MS, FRSA, CChem, FRSC
1996-1999	Professor James Colin Davis, MA, FRHistS
1996-2000	Professor David Bridges, BA, PGCE, MA, PhD
1997-2001	Professor Frank William David Woodhams, BSc, PhD, MIEE, CEng
1998-2003	David Michael Baker, MA, MMus, MLS, PhD, MBA, FIMgt, FLA, FRCO, FRSA
1998-2004	Professor Nigel Frederick John Norris, BA, PhD
1998-2004	Moya Willson, TDipCOT, BA, MSc
1999-2002	Professor Shaun Patrick Hargreaves Heap, BA, PhD
1999-2004	Professor Charles Graham Bentham, BA
2000-2004	Professor Shirley Pearce, BA, MPhil, PhD
2001-2004	Professor Alan Peter Dawson, MA, PhD
2002-2003	Professor James Colin Davis, MA, FRHistS
2004-2009	Professor Edward David Joseph Acton, BA, PhD
2004-2014	Professor Trevor Davies, BSc, PhD
2011-2014	Professor David John Richardson, BSc, PhD
2012-2013	Professor Nigel Frederick John Norris, BA, PhD
2014-2016	Professor David Petley, BSc, PhD
2016-2023	Professor Fiona Lettice, BSc (Bradford), MSc, PhD (Cranfield), BA (OU)

Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellors
2013-2018	Professor Jacqueline Collier, BSc, PhD, MSc, RN
2012-2018	Professor Philip M Gilmartin, BSc, PhD
2016-2021	Professor Dylan Edwards, BA, MA, PhD
2018-2022	Professor Frances Bowen, BA, PhD, HEA

Registrar and Secretary

1962‑1977	*George Arthur Chadwick, BSc
1978-1999	*Michael Geoffrey Ellis Paulson-Ellis, OBE, MA, FCA
1999-2017	Brian Summers, BSc

Librarian

1962‑1985

*Wilhelm Leo Guttsman, MSc(Econ), DLitt

1985-2002

David Michael Baker, MA, MMus, MLS, PhD, MBA, FIMgt, FLA,

FRCO, FRSA

2002-2008

Jean Catherine Steward BA, MA, MCILIP

Chief Operating Officer

2018-2022

Jenny Baxter, BSc Hons, Knight Wallace Fellow

The offices of Public Orator and Honorary Music Adviser were discontinued in 1988 and 1976 respectively. Former holders are listed in Calendars up to 1994-95.

*Deceased