Rick Trainor

Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor FKC was born in 1948 and is Professor of Social History and the current Principal of King's College London (since September 2004).

Trainor holds degrees from Brown University (BA), Princeton University (MA) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.), where he wrote his 1981 D.Phil. thesis on "Authority and social structure in an industrialized area: a study of three Black Country towns, 1840-1890". He is currently the President of Universities UK and a former Rhodes Scholar.

He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Trinity College of Music. He is also a member of the Anglo-American Fulbright Commission.

Trainor was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich (from 2000) and, before that, Senior Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow.

He is married to Dr Marguerite Dupree, an academic historian of medicine currently at Glasgow University, with two children of school age, Richard and Meg.

Published Works

• Black Country élites: the exercise of authority in an industrialized area, 1830-1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

• Urban governance: Britain and beyond since 1750, edited by Robert J. Morris and Richard H. Trainor. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

• University, city and state: the University of Glasgow since 1870, by Michael Moss, J. Forbes Munro and Richard H. Trainor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the University of Glasgow, 2000.

Trivia

• Both Rick Trainor and the Duke of Wellington (who fought a duel over the founding of King's College London) are, or were, members of the prestigious Athenaeum Club.

External links

• KCL information