This is a list of Principals of Queen Mary University of London. As of 2018 [update] , Queen Mary has had a total of 22 principals (11 of Westfield College, eight of Queen Mary College, and three since the merger of Queen Mary, Westfield, and Barts). [1]
The current principal is Colin Bailey, a structural engineer, who became Principal in September 2017.
Name | Held office |
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Constance Louise Maynard | 1882–1913 |
Agnes de Selincourt | 1913–1917 |
Anne W Richardson | 1917–1919 |
Bertha Surtees Phillpotts | 1919–1921 |
Eleanor Lodge | 1921–1931 |
Dorothy Chapman | 1931–1939 |
Mary Stocks | 1939–1951 |
Kathleen Chesney | 1951–1962 |
Pamela Matthews | 1962–1966 |
Bryan Thwaites | 1966–1984 |
John Varey | 1984–1989 |
Name | Held office |
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John Leigh Smeathman Hatton | 1908–1933 |
Sir Frederick Maurice | 1933–1944 |
Ifor Evans | 1944–1951 |
Sir Thomas Percival Creed | 1951–1967 |
Sir Harry Melville | 1967–1976 |
Sir James Menter | 1976–1986 |
Ian Butterworth | 1986–1990 |
Graham J. Zellick | 1991–1998 |
Name | Held office |
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Sir Adrian Smith | 1998–2008 |
Philip Ogden | 2008–2009 |
Simon Gaskell | 2009–2017 |
Colin Bailey | 2017–present [2] |
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