Proctor
![Proctor of the University of Cambridge, aquatint by John Samuel Agar after Thomas Uwins, from History of the University of Cambridge (1815) by William Combe](/Images/godic/202502/10/Agar_Cambridge_Proctor_18152852.jpg")
![1674 engraving of a Proctor in the University of Oxford. From Habitus Academicorum, by George Edwards.](/Images/godic/202502/10/Oxford_Proctor_16742853.jpg")
Proctor, a variant of the word procurator, is a person who takes charge of, or acts for, another. The word proctor is frequently used to describe someone who oversees an exam or dormitory.
The title is used in England in three principal senses