Vice-Chancellors
- 1880–1887: Joseph Gouge Greenwood (also Principal of Owens College 1857–1889)
- 1887–1891: Adolphus William Ward (also Principal of Owens College 1889–1897)
- 1891–1895: Gerald Henry Rendall (University College, Liverpool)
- 1895–1897: Adolphus William Ward (second term)
- 1897–1901: Nathan Bodington (Yorkshire College, Leeds)
- 1901–1903: Alfred Hopkinson (also Principal of Owens College 1898–1904; afterwards Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University of Manchester until 1913)
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