Chancellor of the University of Dublin

Elected by the senate of the university

The 1st Baron Burghley

Pro-Chancellors

Chancellor of the University of Dublin

Introduction[edit]

The Chancellor of the University of Dublin is the titular head of the University of Dublin, generally referred to by its sole college, Trinity College Dublin, founded in 1592.[1] The current Chancellor is Mary McAleese, former president of Ireland.[2]

1592 – 1598:

The 1st Baron Burghley

1598 – 1601:

The 2nd Earl of Essex

1601 – 1612: (known as Viscount Cranborne until 1605)

The 1st Earl of Salisbury

1612 – 1633: George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury

Dr

1633 – 1645: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

Dr

1645 – 1653: (created the 1st Duke of Ormonde in 1661)

The 1st Marquess of Ormonde

1653 – 1660:

Henry Cromwell

1660 – 1688: (restored)

The 1st Duke of Ormonde

1688 – 1715:

The 2nd Duke of Ormonde

1715 – 1727: George, Prince of Wales

H.R.H.

1727 – 1728: Vacant

1728 – 1751: Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales

H.R.H.

1751 – 1765: The Duke of Cumberland

H.R.H.

1765 – 1771:

The 4th Duke of Bedford

1771 – 1805: The Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh

H.R.H.

1805 – 1851: The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (succeeded as H.M. King Ernest Augustus of Hanover in June 1837)

H.R.H.

1851 – 1862: , Archbishop of Armagh

Lord John George de la Poer Beresford

1862 – 1867: , President of the Royal Society (UK)

The 3rd Earl of Rosse

1867 – 1885: (created The 1st Earl Cairns in 1878), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, (1868 and 1874–1880)

The 1st Baron Cairns

1885 – 1908: , vice-president of the Royal Society in 1881 and 1887.[3] President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1896

The 4th Earl of Rosse

1908 – 1927: (created The 1st Earl of Iveagh in 1919)

The 1st Viscount Iveagh

1927 – 1963:

The 2nd Earl of Iveagh

1963 – 1982:

Frederick Boland

1982 – 1984: William Bedell Stanford

Professor

1985 – 1998:

Francis O'Reilly

1998 – 2019: Mary Robinson

Professor

2019 – present: Mary McAleese

Professor

1: (1609–1612) (had been Provost, 1601–1609)

Henry Alvey

2: The Revd (1612–1613) (had been Regius Professor of Divinity)

Luke Challoner

3: Charles Dunn/Doyne/Ó Duinn (1614–1615) "distinguished legist ... son of the Chief of Hy Regan"[6] MP for Dublin University, 1613[7]

JCD

4: The Most Revd (1615–1646), Archbishop of Armagh, 1625-1656

James Ussher

5: The Right Revd (1646–1660), Bishop of Clogher

Henry Jones

6: The Right Revd (1660–1667), Bishop of Down and Connor

Jeremy Taylor

7: The Most Revd (1667–1678), Archbishop of Armagh

James Margetson

8: The Right Revd (1678–1681), Bishop of Ossory (1678-1680), Bishop of Derry, (1680-1681)

Michael Ward

9: The Most Revd (1682–1697), Bishop of Meath

Anthony Dopping

10: The Very Revd (1697–1698), Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

Edward Smith or Smyth

11: The Most Revd (1698–1702), Bishop of Meath

Richard Tenison

12: The Right Revd (1702–1713), Bishop of Clogher

St George Ashe

13: The Most Revd (1713–1714), Archbishop of Tuam

John Vesey

14: The Right Revd (1714–1721), Bishop of Limerick

Thomas Smyth

15: The Right Revd (1721–1743), Bishop of Clogher

John Sterne

19. (1765-1791), Archbishop of Armagh

Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby

20. (1791-1802), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (1791-1802)

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

21. (1802-1803), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland (1798-1803)

Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden

22. (1803-1806), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (1802-1806)

John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale

23. (1806-1816), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, (1803–1822)

William Downes

24. (1816-1829), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (1807-1827)

Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners

25. The Most Revd (1829-1851), Archbishop of Armagh

Lord John George De La Poer Beresford

26. (1852-1867), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (1852 and 1866–67)

Francis Blackburne

27. (1867-1880), MP for Dublin University, (1848–1858), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (1858-1859)

Sir Joseph Napier

28. (1880-1895), MP for Dublin University, (1868–1875), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (1875-1880)

John Thomas Ball

29. (1895-1919), MP for Dublin University, (1887-1892)

Dodgson Hamilton Madden

30: (1919-1919), Archbishop of Dublin (1915-1919), Provost (1919-1927)

John Henry Bernard

31: (1919-1931), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (1918-1921)

Sir James Henry Mussen Campbell, first Lord Glenavy

32: (1931-1949), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, (1918-1924)

Sir Thomas Francis Molony

33: (1949–1979); Vice-Chancellor to 1964

Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse