University of Edinburgh. Librarian

History

Keepers of the Library
1635-1641: Kenneth Logie
1641-1645: Andrew Munro
1645-1648: Thomas Spier and Andrew Suttie
1648-1652: Francis Adamson
1652-1655: James Nairne *
1655-1657: John Mien *
1657-1658: John Stevenson *
1658-1662: John Kniland
1662-1666: John Dunlop
1666-1667: William Somerville

Librarians
1667-1684: William Henderson
1684-1747: Robert Henderson

Honorary Librarians
1747-1763: George Stuart
1763-1785: James Robertson
1785-1806: Andrew Dalzel
1806-1809: George Dunbar

1809-1822: Andrew Duncan
1822-1854: Alexander Brunton

Librarians
1854-1886: John Small
1887-1900: Hugh Webster

Curator of the Library
1900-1913: Hans Julius Eggeling

Librarians
1905-1909: Alexander Anderson
1910-1939: Frank Carr Nicholson
1939-1959: Lauriston William Sharp
1960-1979: Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot
1980-1996: Brenda Elizabeth Moon
1997-2002: Ian Robert Mackenzie Mowat

* Sources differ as to these dates.