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When did Thomas Carlyle become rector of the University of Edinburgh?
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Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1877; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Carlyle was offered the rectorship of the University of Edinburgh in 1865 and was installed in the position in April 1866.1