Chancellors
Current Chancellor
Her Excellency Professor Marie Roslyn Bashir AC CVO, Governor of NSW
MB BS HonMD Syd, FRANZC
Chancellor: 2007-
Previous Chancellors
Edward William Terrick Hamilton (1809 - 1898), portrait (c.1860), unknown artist after George Richmond, conte pencil on paper, gift of the Hamilton Family 1850, (University Art Collection, reproduced with the permission of the University of Sydney)
MA Camb
Fellow of Senate: 1850-1854
Chancellor (Provost): 1851 - 1854
Sir Charles Nicholson (1808 - 1903)
Bt, MD Edin HonDCL Oxf HonLLD Camb
Fellow of Senate: 1850 - 1883
Vice-Chancellor (Vice-Provost): 1851 - 1853
Chancellor (Provost): 1854 - 1862
The Hon Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether, BA Camb (1811 – 1899), portrait 1878, unknown artist, oil on canvas, commissioned by public subscription, (University Art Collection, reproduced with the permission of the University of Sydney)
Fellow of Senate: 1850 - 1875
Vice-Chancellor (Vice-Provost): 1854 - 1862
Chancellor: 1862 - 1865
Sir Edward Deas-Thomson KCMG CB (1800 – 1879)
Fellow of Senate: 1850 - 1879
Vice-Chancellor: 1863 - 1865
Chancellor: 1865 - 1878
Sir William Montagu Manning KCMG (1811 - 1895)
LLD
Fellow of Senate: 1861 - 1895
Chancellor: 1878 - 1895
Sir William Charles Windeyer (1834 - 1897)
LLD MA
Fellow of Senate: 1866 - 1897
Vice-Chancellor: 1883 - 1886
Chancellor: 1895 - 1896
Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin (1835 - 1914)
MA LLD St And MD LLD Edin
Fellow of Senate: 1883 - 1914
Vice-Chancellor: 1887 - 1889, 1895 - 1896
Chancellor: 1896 - 1914
The Hon Sir William Portus Cullen KCMG (1855 - 1935)
MA LLB LLD Syd
Fellow of Senate: 1896 - 1934
Vice-Chancellor: 1909 - 1911
Chancellor: 1914 - 1934
Sir Mungo William MacCallum KCSG (1854 – 1942)
MA Glas LLD Syd HonDLitt Oxf
Fellow of Senate: 1898 - 1914, 1916 - 1936
Vice-Chancellor: 1924 - 1928
Deputy Chancellor: 1928 - 1934
Chancellor: 1934 - 1936
Sir Percival Halse Rogers KBE (1883 – 1945)
BCL Oxf BA Syd
Fellow of Senate: 1929 - 1941
Deputy Chancellor: 1934 - 1936
Chancellor: 1936 - 1941
Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn KCMG OBE (1874 – 1972)
BA Adel HonDLitt UNE HonDLitt Syd HonDSc Tas HonDSc UNSW HonDSc Qld HonLLD Melb HonLLD WAust MD ChM, FRCP FRSM FRACP HonFRCPEd
Fellow of Senate: 1919 - 1964
Deputy Chancellor: 1939 - 1941
Chancellor: 1941 - 1964
Sir Charles George McDonald KCMG KSG (1892 – 1970)
MB ChM, FRCP FRACP
Fellow of Senate: 1942 - 1970
Deputy Chancellor: 1953
Chancellor: 1964 - 1969
Sir Hermann David Black AC (1904 – 1990)
MEc DUniv Syd Hon DLitt N’cle (NSW) DUniv UNE, FCIS FASA
Fellow of Senate: 1949 - 1990
Deputy Chancellor: 1969 - 1970
Chancellor: 1970 - 1990
Air Marshal Sir James Anthony Rowland AC KBE DFC AFC KStJ (1922 – 1999)
BE (Aero) HonDEng Syd, FRAeS CEng FIE Aust
Fellow of Senate: 1990 - 1991
Chancellor: 1990 - 1991
Emeritus Professor Dame Leonie Judith Kramer AC DBE (1924- )
BA Melb MA Syd DPhil Oxf HonDLitt Tas HonLLD Melb HonLLD ANU HonDLitt Qld HonDLitt UNSW DUniv GUPSSt Petersburg, FACE FAHA
Fellow of Senate: 1969 - 1974, 1989 - 2001
Deputy Chancellor: 1989 - 1991
Chancellor: 1991 - 2001
The Hon G F Kim Santow AO (1941 - 2008)
BA LLM HonLLD Syd
Fellow of Senate: 2001 - 2007
Chancellor: 2001 - 2007
Photographs
All photographs are from the University of Sydney Archives, except for the paintings of Edward William Terrick Hamilton and The Hon. Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether.
Biographical notes
The biographical notes on the Chancellors contain information derived from a variety of sources including:
- Australia’s First: A History of the University of Sydney
- University News
- University of Sydney Archives
- Lawlink NSW: Law and History
