Students outside the Sportspark on campus in the Spring

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