Regius Professor of Natural History (Aberdeen)

The Regius Professor of Natural History is a Regius Professorship at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. It was originally called the Regius Professor of Civil and Natural History at Marischal College until in 1860 Marischal College and King's Colleges merged to form the University of Aberdeen, and the title changed to Natural History.

Name	Tenure
Francis Skene[1][2]	11 January 1753 – 1775
George Skene[1][2]	1775–88
William Morgan[1][2]	10 May 1788 – 2 September 1788
James Beattie[1][2]	22 October 1788 – 5 October 1810
Rev Robert Rainy[1][2]	1811 – 10 April 1811
James (Jas) Davidson[1][2]	1 July 1811 – 19 February 1841
William MacGillivray[1][2][3][4]	17 May 1841 – 5 September 1852
James Nicol[1][2][5]	15 September 1853 – 15 September 1860
Name change to Natural History
James Nicol	15 September 1860 – 1878
James Cossar Ewart[6]	1879-82
Henry Alleyne Nicholson[7]	1882–99
John Arthur Thomson[8]	1899–1930
James Ritchie[9]	1930–36
Lancelot Thomas Hogben[10]	1937–41
Alister Clavering Hardy[11]	1942–45
Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards[12]	1946–74
George Mackenzie Dunnet[13]	1974–92
Paul Adrian Racey[14]	1993–2009
Vacant[15]	2009–14
Christopher John Secombes[15][16]	2014 onwards