Greig Barr

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} [[File:Greig Barr house.jpg|thumb|House named after Greig Barr in Oxford]] '''(William) Greig Barr''' (b Glasgow 10 June 1917; d Oxford 23 April 2008)<ref>'Deaths' The Times Monday, 28 April 2008 Issue 69309 p.51</ref> was an Oxford college head.<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1533-1549 Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Vachell-Vyner]</ref>

Barr was educated at Kelvinside Academy, Sedbergh School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He served in the Second World War with the Royal Devon Yeomanry. A historian, he was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1945 1972; and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1972 to 1982.<ref>{{Who's Who | author= Anon | year= 2020 | title=Barr, William Greig | id= U6609 | doi= 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{succession box | title=Rector of Exeter College, Oxford | years=1972–1982 | before=Kenneth Clinton Wheare | after=Norman Crowther Hunt }} {{s-end}} {{Rectors of Exeter College, Oxford}} {{University of Oxford}} {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Education|portal3= England|portal4=History}}

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