University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove and on the edge of the South Downs. It is the only university in England which is entirely located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and runs entirely on electricity from renewable energy sources. It was founded in August 1961, one of several New Universities to be built in the 1960s.

Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors

The present Chancellor of the university is The Lord Attenborough, who was elected as the university's fourth Chancellor on March 20 1998.

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Chancellor - The Lord Attenborough - March 20 - 1998

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• The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1961 - 1965)
• Lord Shawcross (1965 - 1985)
• The Duke of Richmond and Gordon (1985 - 1989)
• Lord Attenborough (1998 - present)

The university has had six Vice-Chancellors:

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• John Fulton (1961 - 1967)
• Professor Asa Briggs (1967 - 1976)
• Sir Denys Wilkinson (1976 - 1987)
• Sir Leslie Fielding (1987 - 1992)
• Professor Gordon Conway (1992 - 1998)
• Professor Alasdair Smith (1998 - present)