Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.

* Abbas Anvari, former chancellor of Sharif University of Technology

1975 ), vice chancellor at the City University of New York and a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation

Educators include the current chancellor of the University of California, San Diego Marye Anne Fox ( PhD.

He joined the University of Texas in 1945 as an assistant professor of chemistry, became an associate professor in 1946, a full professor in 1950, a department chair in 1952, dean of research in 1960, vice president and provost in 1961, and vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Texas System in 1963.

Dr. Erastus Otis Haven, Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, maintained that women should receive the advantages of higher education.

The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, and Orson Spencer was appointed as the first chancellor of the university.

The University Act of 1963 vested administrative authority in a chancellor elected by the convocation of the university, a board of governors, and a president appointed by the board ; academic authority was given to the senate which was representative both of the faculties and of the convocation.

The first chancellor of the University was Piotr Wysz, and the first professors were Czechs, Germans and Poles, many of them trained at the Charles University in Prague in Bohemia.

On January 17, 1816, he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and in 1818, he was appointed chancellor of Uppsala University, where he spent one semester.

* December 14 – Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris ( d. 1429 )

He was the first chancellor of the University of Ljubljana.

After the First World War he became a member of the University Commission under the Slovene Provincial Government and helped establish the first Slovene university at Ljubljana, and was elected its first chancellor.

In 1996, she became chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.

Salisbury served as both the third chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin and chancellor of the University of Cambridge between 1601 and 1612.

With the complicity of the Recteur ( University chancellor ) G. Hardy, Weygand instituted, on his own authority, by a mere " note de service n ° 343QJ " of 30 September 1941, a school " numerus clausus " ( quota ), driving out from the colleges and from the primary schools most of the Jewish pupils, including small children aged 5 to 11.

* Fujia Yang ( 杨福家 Yang Fujia ), physicist and university administrator, the chancellor of the University of Nottingham.

Between 1946 / 1947 and 1949 / 1950, he was chancellor of the University of Ljubljana, and he served twice as dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1940 / 1941 and 1945 / 1946.

Hu then served as chancellor of Peking University between 1946 and 1948, and later ( 1957 ) president of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, where he remained until his death.

It is generally believed that these charges were levied by Oxford chancellor John Lutterell.

** His interim chancellor and effective regent, Walter de Merton retires from royal service to make the final revisions to his statutes for the foundation of Merton College, Oxford and take up the post of Bishop of Rochester.

He acted for many years as assessor of the vice-chancellor's court, and in 1632 became chancellor of the diocese of Oxford.

From 1641 to 1643, and again from 1647 to 1650, he was chancellor of the university of Oxford ; in 1648 he removed some of the heads of houses from their positions because they would not take the Solemn League and Covenant, and his foul language led to the remark that he was more fitted " by his eloquence in swearing to preside over Bedlam than a learned academy ".

In 1608 he was chosen chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Being a native of the west of England Courtenay was educated at Stapledon Hall, Oxford, and after graduating in law was chosen chancellor of the university in 1367.

In 1671 he was elected chancellor of Cambridge, and in 1672 high steward of the University of Oxford.

At this time William Laud was both Bishop of London and chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Pococke was recognised as one who could help his schemes for enriching the university.

Patten made as a politician as well as chancellor of the University of Oxford a remarkable comment on Myron Scholes and Robert Merton:

In April 1648 Prynne accompanied Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke when he came as chancellor of Oxford to expel recalcitrant heads of houses.

Hatton was a Knight of the Garter and chancellor of the University of Oxford.

The colleges of the universities used to brew their own ales and hold festivals known as college-ales ; some of these ales are still brewed and famous, like " chancellor " at Queen's College, and " archdeacon " at Merton College, Oxford, and " audit ale " at Trinity, Cambridge.

That he was at Oxford, and probably a scholar at one of the grammar schools there, before passing on to the higher faculties, is shown by a letter of the chancellor addressed to him when provost of Eton which speaks of the university as his mother who brought him forth into the light of knowledge and nourished him with the alimony of all the sciences.

As Chancellor of the University of Oxford ( 1547 – 1552 ) he promoted foreign divines such as Pietro Martire Vermigli, and was a moving spirit of the two commissions which sought with some success to eradicate everything savouring of popery from the books, manuscripts, ornaments and endowments of the university, and earned Cox the sobriquet of its canceller rather than its chancellor.

In 1834, to commemorate the installation of the Duke of Wellington as chancellor of the University of Oxford, Crotch penned a second oratorio titled The Captivity of Judah.

Among eminent men who have been associated with the cathedral – besides those who have already been mentioned – are Robert of Gloucester, the chronicler, prebendary in 1291 ; Nicholas of Hereford, chancellor in 1377, a remarkable man and leader of the Lollards at Oxford ; John Carpenter, town clerk of London who baptized there on December 18, 1378 ; Polydore Vergil, prebendary in 1507, a celebrated literary man, as indeed with such a name he ought to have been ; and Miles Smith, prebendary in 1580, promoted to the See of Gloucester – one of the translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

Born in Lancashire to a family of minor gentry, he probably attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities, following which he was a clerk at Durham, then a rector in Cornwall before being employed by Lady Margaret Beaufort ( mother of King Henry VII ), rising to be the chancellor of her household by 1503.

Devised by David Graham and debated on Thursday, February 9, 1933, was this question: “ That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country .” The topic was often interpreted as illustrating both the attitude of Oxford and the state of Europe at the time ( Adolf Hitler had become chancellor of Germany just ten days prior to the debate ).

His verses intended to have been spoken at the theatre at Oxford on the installation of the Duke of Portland as chancellor were praised by Rogers and Moore.

On return to England in 1235 he was elected chancellor of Oxford University.

* 2006-2007: Member of the Oxford University Taskforce on UK Energy, Development Assistance and Foreign Policy, chaired by Chris Patten, chancellor of Oxford University and former EU Commissioner and Secretary of State for Development

He also held the posts of chancellor of Durham sede vacante, in 1311 and between 1316 and 1317, archdeacon of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln in 1320, prebendary of Bathwick in Wherwell Abbey, Hampshire from 1314 until 1320, rector of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford from 1320 until 1326, warden of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Oxford from 1326 until 1332, and rector sharing Eckington, Derbyshire from 1328 until 1332.