Vice-Chancellor
an officer next in rank to a chancellor; the deputy of a chancellor.
In English law, a judge in the Chancery division of the High Court of Justice in England, holding a separate court. The office was abolished by the Judicature Act. The first Vice-Chancellor was appointed in 1813; the last holder of the office was Sir John Bacon, who retired Nov. 11, 1886. In Ireland there is a Vice-Chancellor, and the judge of the local Court of Chancery of the Duchy of Lancaster is also styled a Vice-Chancellor. In some of the United States there exists a judicial office analogous to the British institution described above. Where a State has a court of chancery, the highest incumbent is termed chancellor and the next vicechancellor.