1330 - ? John of Greyfriars 1481 - 1482 John Turnbull 1482 - 1521no information 1521 - 1562 John Turner 1562 - 1580 Ninian Dalzell 1601 - 1617 Herbert Gladstone 1617 - 1624 John Thomson 1624 - 1629no information 1629 - 1640 James McGeorge 1640 - 1641 Francis Irvine 1641 - 1645 John Harper 1645 - 1647 Alexander Smith 1647 - 1652 John More 1653 - 1663 William McGeorge 1663 - 1664 Matthew Richmond 1664 - 1667 John Gillespie 1667 - 1696 John Fraser 1696 - 1718 Alex Kerr 1719 - 1724 William McCornok 1724 - 1747 Robert Trotter 1747 - 1750 Robert Trotter and George Chapman - Joint 1750 - 1774 George Chapman 1774 - 1794 James Wait 1794 - 1801 James Gray 1801 - 1806 Aglionby Carson - First Rector of the new school build between 1802 – 1804 1806 - 1820 George Munro 1820 - 1830 Alex Harkness 1830 - 1837 John McMillan 1837 - 1844 Robert McMillan 1844 - 1860 Charles Maxwell 1860 - 1872 William Cairns 1872 - 1879 James Cranstoun 1879 - 1897 Edward Chinnock 1897 - 1902 James Clark - First Rector of the rebuilt school with the new Minerva Building as its centrepiece 1902 - 1931 John Critchley - Rector during WW1 when over 200 former Academy pupils died in the Armed Forces 1931 - 1956 Alfred Lodge - Rector during WW2 1957 - 1970 Albert Anderson 1970 - 1980 Robert McNay 1980 - 1995 Douglas Smith - First Rector of an all through S1-S6 state comprehensive school 1995 - 2010 Charles McAteer 2010 - 2013 Kenneth Glendye 2013 - Joanne Dillon - First female Rector of Dumfries Academy
