Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland Oswald Sigg was named successor to Vice-Chancellor and Federal Council spokesman Achille Casanova. With Federal Chancellor Annemarie Huber-Hotz and the other Vice-Chancellorship conferred to Corina Casanova (no relationship to Achille Casanova), the three key roles in the Federal Chancellery were held by Swiss Germans. Remarkably enough, though, when Corinna Casanova was elected Federal Chancellor three years later, the nomination of Thomas Helbling as her successor, another Swiss German, raised no such public criticism. At the time, the "Tages-Anzeiger" speculated that this might be due to the Latin cantons aiming for the post of Oswald Sigg, due to retire a bit
William Barlow (vice-chancellor) of the University Senate. He was then elected to the council, a position he retained until his death. In 1896 he succeeded J. A. Hartley as Vice-Chancellor of the University. Barlow was awarded a C.M.G. in the King's Birthday honours in 1914, presented by His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson) on September 3 1914. His sponsors were Sir John Downer and Professor Stirling, C.M.G. William Barlow (vice-chancellor) William Barlow (1834 – 19 April 1915) was a lawyer in Dublin and in Adelaide, where he served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 1896 to 1915. Barlow was born