List of Professors
The following list details the professors and officers of the University during the period the borrowing registers cover. The names below link to entries in the University of Glasgow Story.
- Anderson, John (Professor of Natural Philosophy 1757-1796)
- Black, Joseph (Lecturer in Chemistry, 1756-1766; Regius Professor of Anatomy and Botany, 1756; Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine 1757-1766)
- Buchanan, James (Professor of Oriental Languages, 1757-1761)
- Clark, Thomas (Library Keeper, 1759-1764)
- Clow, James (Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, 1752-1787)
- Cumin, Patrick (Professor of Oriental Languages, 1761-1820)
- Dick, Robert (Jr.; Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1751-1757)
- Hamilton, Robert (Regius Professor of Anatomy and Botany, 1742-1756; Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine, 1756)
- Hamilton, Thomas (Regius Professor of Anatomy and Botany, 1757-1781)
- Leechman, William (Professor of Divinity, 1743-1761; Principal, 1761-1785)
- Lindsay, Hercules (Regius Professor of Law, 1750-1761)
- Millar, John (Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1761-1800)
- Moor, James (Librarian, 1742-[?1774], Professor of Greek, 1746-1774)
- Muirhead, George (Professor of Oriental Languages, 1753-1754; Chair of Humanity, 1754-1773)
- Reid, Thomas (Professor of Moral Philosophy, 1764-1781)
- Simson, Robert (Professor of Mathematics, 1711-1761)
- Smith, Adam (Professor of Logic, 1751-1752; Professor of Moral Philosophy, 1752-1764)
- Stevenson, Alexander (Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine, 1766-1789)
- Trail, Robert (Professor of Oriental Languages, 1761; Professor of Divinity, 1761-1775)
- Wight, William (Professor of Ecclesiastical History and teacher of Civil History, 1762-1778; Professor of Divinity, 1778-1782)
- Williamson, James (Professor of Mathematics, 1761-1795)
- Wilson, Alexander (Regius Professor of Astronomy, 1760-1784)