vice chancellor

noun

1. a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
2. a chancery judge acting in place of a chancellor.
3. the chief administrator of certain British universities.Compare chancellor(def 7).

noun

1. the chief executive or administrator at some British universitiesCompare chancellor (def. 3)
2. (in the US) a judge in courts of equity subordinate to the chancellor
3. (formerly in England) a senior judge of the court of Chancery who acted as assistant to the Lord Chancellor
4. a person serving as the deputy of a chancellor