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University of Cambridge
Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1819; d. December 14 1861
1847 – 1861
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 27 1808; d. December 21 1891
Titles of nobility: Earl of Burlington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1834 – 1891); Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1858 – 1891)
1861 – 1891
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
1892 – 1908
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
1919 – 1930
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
1930 – 1947
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 24 1870; d. September 11 1950
1948 – 1950
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1885; d. December 21 1945
Titles of nobility: Baron Tedder in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1946 – 1967).
Military ranks: Promoted to air vice marshal, 1937. Promoted to air chief marshal, 1943. Promoted to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, 1945.
1950 – 1967
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 10 1921; d. April 9 2021
Titles of nobility: Duke of Edinburgh in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1947 – 2021).
1976 – 2011
Masters of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Arthur Christopher Benson
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 24 1862; d. June 17 1925
1915 – 1925
University of Oxford
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Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
1834 – 1852
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
1852 – 1869
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1869 – 1903
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1869 – 1903
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
1933 – 1959
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
1960 – 1986
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1920; d. January 5 2003.
1987 – 2003
William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1961.
2025 – present
Master of University College, Oxford
Sir Ivor Martin Crewe
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 15 1945.
2008 – 2020
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1954.
2020 – present