List of principals of King's College London

Last updated January 24, 2025

This is a list of Principals of King's College London. The office of the Principal (Principal and President from 2009) is established by the Charter of King's College London as "the chief academic and administrative officer of the College". To date there have been 20 Principals, with two further announced holders of the role.

No.	Principal	Held Office	Notes	Reference
1	William Otter	1831–1836	Bishop of Chichester 1836–1840	^[1]
2	Hugh James Rose	1836–1838		^[2]
3	John Lonsdale	1838–1843	Bishop of Lichfield 1843–1967	^[3]
4	Richard William Jelf	1843–1868		^[4]
5	Alfred Barry	1868–1883	Bishop of Sydney 1884–1889	^[5]
6	Henry Wace	1883–1897	Dean of Canterbury 1903–1924	^[6]
7	Archibald Robertson	1897–1903	Bishop of Exeter 1903–1916	^[7]
8	Arthur Headlam	1903–1912	First Dean of King's College London 1908–1912; Bishop of Gloucester 1923–1945	^[8]
9	Ronald Montagu Burrows	1913–1920	First layman	^[9]
10	Ernest Barker	1920–1927		^[10]
11	William Reginald Halliday	1928–1952		^[11]
12	Peter Noble	1952–1968		^[12]
13	John Hackett	1968–1975		^[13]
14	Richard Way	1975–1980		^[14]
15	Neil Cameron	1980–1985	Former Chief of the Air Staff and Chief of the Defence Staff	^[15]
16	Stewart Sutherland	1985–1990		^[16]
17	John Beynon	1990–1992		^[17]
18	Arthur Lucas	1993–2003		^[18]
19	Rick Trainor	2004–2014		^[19]
20	Ed Byrne	2014–31 January 2021^[20]		^[21]
—	Evelyn Welch	1 February 2021–1 June 2021	Interim President & Principal	^[20]
21	Shitij Kapur	1 June 2021–present		^[20]

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[1] Arthur Burns, ‘Otter, William (1768–1840)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

[2] Peter B. Nockles, ‘Rose, Hugh James (1795–1838)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

[3] Arthur Burns, 'Lonsdale, John (1788–1867)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

[4] W. A. Greenhill, 'Jelf, Richard William (1798–1871)', rev. M. C. Curthoys, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

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[16] 'SUTHERLAND OF HOUNDWOOD', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014

[17] 'BEYNON, Dr John David Emrys', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014

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[19] 'TRAINOR, Sir Richard (Hughes)', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014

[kapur-20] 1 2 3 "King's appoints Professor Shitij Kapur as new President & Principal". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2020.

[21] "King's College London appoints Professor Edward Byrne as new Principal". King's College London . Retrieved 8 October 2014.

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