7 October 2003
The Queen has approved that Professor Richard Hughes Trainor DPhil, FRHistS, be appointed Principal of King’s College, London in succession to Professor Arthur Maurice Lucas PhD, FBiol, FKC, CBE.
Notes for Editors
Professor Trainor (born 1948) has been Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social History at the University of Greenwich since 2000. Educated at Brown and Princeton in his native USA, he took his doctorate at Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar and junior research fellow. He moved to the University of Glasgow in 1979 where he was lecturer and senior lecturer before becoming Professor of Social History. At Glasgow he was also successively Dean of Social Sciences and Vice-Principal. A social historian of 19th and 20th century Britain Professor Trainor has published extensively, especially on computing and history, and on the composition and impact of urban elites. He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Secretary of the Economic History Society. Having served on numerous bodies in the education sector, he is currently chair of the Learning and Teaching Support Network, a board member of Universities UK and a member both of the Joint Information Systems Committee and of the US-UK Fulbright Commission.
Professor Trainor is married to Dr Marguerite Dupree, a historian who is a Reader at Glasgow; they have a son and a daughter.
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