page_title: List of University of Glasgow people
section_title: Military
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Glasgow people / Military
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson. The original image, from which this has been cropped to remove the border, bore the note "GENERAL SIR DAVID HENDERSON, C.B., D.S.O. IN COMMAND OF THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS". This particular version of the image was published by Raphael Tuck &amp; Sons as an "Oilette" (No.8741).
context_page_description: The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451. Historical lists of Chancellors, Rectors and Principals of the University are contained in those offices' respective articles.
context_section_description: General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet, Scottish soldier who achieved high office
  Lieutenant Robert Blair, received the Victoria Cross
  Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd, British Army officer and Governor of Gibraltar
  Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton, Lord of the Admiralty
  General William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart, Commander-in-Chief of Scotland and Ambassador to Russia during the Great Patriotic War of 1812
  Lieutenant Colonel James Hamilton, Commandant of the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo
  Colonel William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, Royalist Commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
  Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson,  commander of the Royal Flying Corps and instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force
  Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, Hereditary chief of Clan Campbell, and a Royalist supporter during the latter stages of the Scottish Civil War and its aftermath.
  Lieutenant General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon, major investor in the failed Darien Scheme and British ambassador to Louis XIV of France
  Major General David Tennant Cowan CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC. Distinguished for leading the Indian 17th Infantry Division during almost the entire Burma Campaign.
  Major-general Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet KCB. East India Company Army officer and statesman.
  Colonel James Lennox Dawson VC. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Donald MacKintosh (VC). Recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Harry Ranken. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Sir John Snell. Royalist Soldier in the English Civil War. Founded the Snell Exhibition.
  Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat, 20th MacShimidh (chief) of Clan Fraser of Lovat.
  General Simon Fraser of Lovat, the 19th Chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat.
  Air Marhsal Stuart Atha, senior officer of the Royal Air Force.
  Wing Commander Hector Maclean,  Battle of Britain fighter pilot.
caption: Sir David Henderson
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