past rectors of st andrews

1859-1862 Sir Ralph Anstruther
1862-1865 William Stirling-Maxwell
1865-1868 John Stuart Mill
1868-1871 James Anthony Froude
1872-1874 Charles Neaves
1874-1877 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
1877-1880 Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
1880-1883 Sir Theodore Martin
1884-1886 Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
1886-1889 Arthur Balfour
1889-1892 Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1892-1898 John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute
1898-1901 James Stuart
1901-1907 Andrew Carnegie
1907-1910 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
1910-1913 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1913-1916 John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
1916-1919 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
1919-1922 Sir J. M. Barrie
1922-1925 Rudyard Kipling
1925-1928 Fridtjof Nansen
1928-1931 Sir Wilfred Grenfell
1931-1934 Field Marshal Jan Smuts
1934-1937 Guglielmo Marconi
1937-1938 Robert MacGregor Mitchell
1938-1946 Sir David Munro
1946-1949 Sir George Cunningham
1949-1952 David Cecil, Lord Burghley
1952-1955 David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford
1955-1958 David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Viscount Kilmuir
1958-1961 Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
1961-1964 C. P. Snow
1964-1967 Sir John Rothenstein
1967-1970 Sir Learie Constantine (from 1969 Baron Constantine)
1970-1973 John Cleese
1973-1976 Alan Coren
1976-1979 Frank Muir
1979-1982 Tim Brooke-Taylor
1982-1985 Katharine Whitehorn
1985-1988 Stanley Adams
1988-1991 Nicholas Parsons
1991-1993 Nicholas Campbell
1993-1999 Donald Findlay
1999-2002 Andrew Neil
2002-2005 Sir Clement Freud
2005-2008 Simon Pepper OBE (Simon's installation address can be found here)
2008-present Kevin Dunion OBE