Part 10: Rectors, Directors of Studies, Principals and Heads of School from 1835 - present
A chronological list of Moray House's rectors, directors of studies, principals and Heads of School.
Free Church of Scotland
- 1843 - 1848: After the Disruption the Normal School was located in Whitefield Chapel then in rooms below the Music Room in Rose Street, Edinburgh
- 1845 - 1846: Thomas Oliphant - Rector
- 1846 - 1855: James Fulton - Rector
- 1848: The Normal School moved to Moray House in the Canongate, Edinburgh
- 1855 - 1863: James Sime - Rector
- 1864 - 1907: Maurice Paterson - Rector
Church of Scotland
- 1835 - 1837: General Assembly’s Normal Seminary, Edinburgh
- 1837 - 1840: The Normal and Sessional School of Edinburgh
- 1835 - 1840: John Wood - Superintendent
- 1843: The Disruption in the Church of Scotland
- 1845: New buildings opened at Johnston Terrace
- 1845 - 1853: George S Davidson - Rector
- 1854 - 1886: James Currie - Rector
- 1879: New building opened in Chambers Street
- 1886 - 1903: Peter McKinlay - Rector
- 1903 - 1920: Alexander Morgan - Rector
Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre
- 1907: Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre formed; the church training colleges subsumed within this organisation. The new teaching building opened at Moray House in 1913.
- 1907 - 1920: John King - Director of Studies
- 1907 - 1920: Alexander Morgan - Principal
- 1920 - 1925: Alexander Morgan - Director of Studies & Principal
- 1925 - 1951: Godfrey Thomson - Director of Studies at Moray House/Bell Professor of Education at Edinburgh University
- 1951 - 1959: William B Inglis - Director of Studies
Moray House College / Moray House Institute of Education
- 1959: Moray House College of Education formed
- 1959 - 1966: William B Inglis - Principal
- 1966 - 1974: Douglas McIntosh - Principal
- 1975 - 1981: Baillie Ruthven - Principal
- 1981 - 1998: Gordon Kirk - Principal
- 1991: Linked with Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh; retitled Moray House Institute of Education
Faculty of Education / The Moray House School of Education
August 1998: Moray House Institute of Education merged with The University of Edinburgh becoming its Faculty of Education.
It is now The Moray House School of Education of The University of Edinburgh.
- 1998 - 2007: Pamela Munn - Head of School
- 2007 - 2009: Jim O'Brien - Head of School
- 2009 - 2010: Pat McLaughlin - Head of School
- 2010 - 2013: Cara Aitchison - Head of School
- 2013 - present: Rowena Arshad - Head of School
This article was published on Apr 17, 2013