List of Chancellors of the University of Dublin

This is a list of Chancellors of the University of Dublin.

List of Chancellors of the University of Dublin

• 1592 – 1598: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
• 1598 – 1601: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
• 1601 – 1612: Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
• 1612 – 1633: George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1633 – 1645: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1645 – 1653: James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde
• 1653 – 1660: Henry Cromwell
• 1660 – 1688: James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (restored; created Duke of Ormonde in 1661)
• 1688 – 1715: James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
• 1715 – 1727: Prince George, Prince of Wales
• 1728 – 1751: Prince Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales
• 1751 – 1765: Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
• 1765 – 1770: John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
• 1771 – 1805: Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
• 1805 – 1851: Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (succeeded as King of Hanover in 1837)
• 1851 – 1862: Lord John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh
• 1862 – 1867: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
• 1868 – 1885: Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Baron Cairns (created Earl Cairns in 1878)
• 1885 – 1908: Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
• 1908 – 1927: Edward Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh (created Earl of Iveagh in 1919)
• 1927 – 1963: Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh
• 1963 – 1982: Frederick Boland
• 1982 – 1984: William Bedell Stanford
• 1985 – 1998: Francis Joseph Charles O'Reilly
• 1998 – present: Mary Terese Winifred Robinson