2025 University of Cambridge Chancellor election

2025 Cambridge chancellery election
9-18 July 2025
Incumbent Chancellor

The Lord Sainsbury of Turville


The 2025 University of Cambridge election for the position of Chancellor became necessary upon the resignation of the incumbent, David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville.

Nominations for the role closed on 2 May 2025. The term for the new Chancellor will be ten years; previous occupants of the role were appointed for life. Previous holders of the role include Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; former Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin, Arthur Balfour and Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton; and Nobel Laureates Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.

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