Principal Titles
The following shows the principal titles adopted, together with
examples of colleges, etc, under each appropriate appointment:
Principal
Brasenose College, Oxford
Green Templeton College, Oxford
Harris Manchester, Oxford
Hertford College, Oxford
Jesus College, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Linacre College, Oxford
Mansfield College, Oxford
Regent’s Park College, Oxford
St Anne’s College, Oxford
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
St Hilda’s, Oxford
St Hugh’s, Oxford
St Stephen’s House, Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Homerton College, Cambridge
Newnham College, Cambridge
Collingwood College, Durham
John Snow College, Durham
Josephine Butler College, Durham
St Aidan’s College, Durham
St Chad’s College, Durham
St Cuthbert’s Society, Durham
St Hild and St Bede College, Durham
St John’s College, Durham
St Mary’s College, Durham
Stephenson College, Durham
Trevelyan College, Durham
Ustinov College, Durham
Central School of Speech and Drama, London
Heythrop College, London
King’s College, London
Queen Mary College, London
Royal Academy of Music, London
Royal Holloway College, London
Royal Veterinary College, London (Principal and Dean)
St George’s College, London
President
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Kellogg College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
St John’s College, Oxford
Trinity College, Oxford
Wolfson College, Oxford
Clare Hall, Cambridge
Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society, Cambridge
Murray Edwards (formerly New Hall), Cambridge
Queens’ College, Cambridge
Wolfson College, Cambridge
Ushaw College, Durham
Magee College, University of Ulster
Master
Balliol College, Oxford
Campion Hall, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford
St Benet’s Hall, Oxford
St Catherine’s College, Oxford
St Cross College, Oxford
St Peter’s College, Oxford
University College, Oxford
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Churchill College, Cambridge
Clare College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Darwin College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Peterhouse, Cambridge
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
St John’s College, Cambridge
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Grey College, Durham
Hatfield College, Durham
University College, Durham
Van Mildert College, Durham
Birkbeck College, London
University College, Dublin
University College, Cork
Mistress
Girton College, Cambridge
Warden
All Souls College, Oxford
Keble College, Oxford
Merton College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
St Antony’s College, Oxford
Wadham College, Oxford
Robinson College, Cambridge
Goldsmiths College, London
Dean
Christ Church, Oxford
London Business School
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
School of Pharmacy, London
Regent
Blackfriars, Oxford
Rector
Exeter College, Oxford
Lincoln College, Oxford
Provost
Oriel College, Oxford
Queen’s College, Oxford
Worcester College, Oxford
King’s College, Cambridge
University College, London (Provost and President)
Trinity College, Dublin
Director
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Institute of Education, London
London School of Economics and Political Science
School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Chief Executive
Institute of Cancer Research
Professor
A professor is addressed by name, eg ‘Professor Henry Brewer’. When a professor retires from his or her chair at a university, and emeritus rank is conferred, the professor emeritus (or emeritus professor) continues to be addressed as before.
Should a professor be a canon (or have a higher ecclesiastical rank), he or she is sometimes known as ‘Professor Brewer’, but strictly speaking the ecclesiastical rank supersedes the academic. He would be known as ‘Canon Brewer’ rather than as ‘Professor Brewer’, but this is a matter of personal choice.
The academic style is used more often within a university and the ecclesiastical style outside, but the academic and ecclesiastical styles may be combined as ‘The Reverend Professor Henry Brewer’. The form ‘The Reverend Canon Professor Henry Brewer’ is never used as it is too cumbersome.
If a professor is also a member of the peerage, or a knight or dame, the academic style and title may be combined as ‘Professor Lord Ryder’ or ‘Professor Dame Elizabeth Pulteney’. He/she may prefer to be known by title alone.
Doctorates
The recipient of a doctorate conferred by a university or other body, such as the Council for National Academic Awards, is entitled to be addressed as ‘Doctor’. The exception to this is a surgeon, who is known as Mr/Mrs/Miss, etc.
In practice, when a well-known figure outside the academic world receives an honorary doctorate, the recipient does not generally adopt the title of ‘Doctor’, especially when he or she already has other styles or titles.