REGENTS (Continued.) Mathematics 1821 Hercules Scott, Professor of Moral | 1851 Frederick Fuller, Professor of Philosophy 1834 John Fleming, Professor of Natural 1854 Peter Colin Campbell, Professor of Greek Philosophy 1845 David Thomson, Professor of 1855 William Duguid Geddes, Professor Natural Philosophy of Greek. Philosophy of Zoology"; subsequently Professor of Natural History in the New College, Edinburgh. Author of "Life of God in the Soul of Man," &c. Previously Professor of Divinity, Marischal College; author of the "Essay on Taste". Marischal College and University. ALTHOUGH the Foundation Charter of 1593 contemplates the existence of a Chancellor, it prescribes no mode of election, and the successors of the Founder-the Earls Marischal-under the title of "Patrons of the Earl Marischal's College "-seem to have been regarded as Chancellors until their forfeiture in 1715. In 1727, a petition was presented to George II., representing the difficulties experienced from the want of a Chancellor, and praying His Majesty to appoint the Duke of Cumberland to the Office. The result of the petition is unknown. The first recorded appointment of a Chancellor is that of the Earl of Bute in 1761, "as the office is become vacant by the death of his Grace the Duke of Argyll". From that time the Chancellor was elected for life by the Senatus Academicus. Besides a Rector to be chosen annually by the "suppositi," divided into four Nations, the Charter established an official entitled the Dean of Faculty (to be elected at the same time by the Chancellor, Rector, Principal, Regents, and Senior Minister of Aberdeen), whose duty was to preside at Examinations, and at the granting of Degrees. No formal record of these elections is extant of earlier date than 1664. The officials charged with the ordinary work of tuition were the Principal and Three Regents, to whom a fourth was added in 1620, when the Principalship† was temporarily conjoined with the Divinity Chair. It was the intention of the Founder that * The Duke of Cumberland, who in 1727 was only six years of age, became, in 1746, Chancellor of St. Andrews. The Principalship in Marischal College was in two instances, in the 17th century, held by Doctors of Medicine. each Regent should devote himself to the teaching of some special branch or branches; and this system seems to have prevailed until the short-lived union with King's College in 1641, after which date each Regent began to carry his students through all the four years of the curriculum. After 1717 one of the Regents was, in tardy compliance with the Act of Visitation of 1700, set apart to the duties of Professor of Greek, and in 1753, the other Regencies became Professorships of Moral Philosophy, of Natural Philosophy, and of Civil and Natural History respectively. To the original offices the following Professorships were added -Mathematics in 1613,* Divinity in 1625, Medicine in 1700, Oriental Languages in 1732, Chemistry in 1793, Church History in 1833, Humanity, Anatomy, and Surgery in 1839, and that of Medical Logic and Medical Jurisprudence in 1857. * No Professor of Mathematics was appointed until 1626. +Further details as to the Officials will be found in the New Spalding Club's Fasti Academiae Mariscallanae, vol. ii., 1898. See under King's College (list of Principals). 1796 DEANS OF FACULTY-(Continued). George Campbell, late Principal | 1826 Alex. Thomson of Banchory 1797-99 Alex. Burnett of Strachan 1800-01 William Forbes Leith of White haugh 1802-03 Alexander Irvine of Drum 1804-06 Sir Robert Burnett of Leys, Bart. 1807-13 Alexander Irvine of Schivas 1814-18 George Douglas, Sheriff of Kincardineshire 1819-25 Hugh Lumsden of Pitcaple 1593 Robert Howie* 1598 Gilbert Gray 1616 Andrew Edie 1620 William Forbes + 1601 Patrick Gray 1827-33 Duncan Davidson of Tullichetly 1858 1859 1860 PRINCIPALS. 1602 William Forbes, Prof. of Logic 1610 Patrick Dun, Prof. of Logic 1616 Peter Blackburn, the younger John Gordon 1717 Thomas Blackwell, elder 1748 Thomas Blackwell, younger 1757 Robert Pollock 1759 GEORGE CAMPBELL 1796 William Laurence Brown § REGENTS. 1619 Andrew Massey, Prof. of Logic William Ogston, Professor of Moral Philosophy 1620 James Sibbald, Professor of Natural Philosophy T 1623 William Wedderburn, Professor of Greek 1626 John Seton, Prof. of Nat. Phil. *Afterwards Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. + Afterwards first Bishop of Edinburgh. Author of "The Philosophy of Rhetoric," "A Dissertation on Miracles," &c. § Previously Professor of Church History, Moral Philosophy, and the Law of Nature, Utrecht University; author of the first Burnet Prize Essay on Theism. || Afterwards Latin Secretary to King James VI. ¶ One of the "Aberdeen Doctors" ** Afterwards Regent, King's Coll. ++ Afterwards Principal of Edinburgh University. Afterwards Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh University. |