Previous Honorary Graduates

Doctor of Divinity (DDiv)
Doctor of Engineering (DEng)
Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Doctor of Letters (DLitt)
Doctor of Music (DMus)
Doctor of Science (DSc)
Master of Arts (MA)
Master of Science (MSc)

Doctor of Divinity (DDiv)

The Rt Revd W A E Westall	1971¹
Professor The Revd Canon G R Dunstan, CBE	1973¹
Revd Canon John Thurmer	1991
The Most Revd Trevor Huddleston, CR	1994¹
Rt Revd David Sheppard	1998¹
Most Revd Desmond Tutu	1998
His Eminence Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly	1999
Lord Eames	1999
The Rt Revd Rowan Williams	2001
The Rt Revd Michael Langrish	2007

Doctor of Engineering (DEng)

Professor Noel Warner	1998

Doctor of Laws (LLD)

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, GCVO CBE	1956¹
Colonel The Earl Fortescue, KG MC	1956¹
Principal Sir Hector Hetherington, GBE DL	1956¹
President J L Morill	1956
Sir John Daw, JP	1957¹
E Vincent Harris, OBE	1957¹
Emeritus Professor W H Lewis	1957¹
Sayed Mekki Abbas	1959
The Rt Hon. The Viscount Amory, KG PC GCMG TD DL	1959¹
Sir Arthur Reed, Kt JP	1959¹
John Hay Whitney, CBE	1959¹
Colonel Sidney John Worsley, DSO MC TD	1959¹
Nancy Viscountess Astor, CH	1959¹
Dr C J Fuller	1960¹
B G Lampard-Vachell, CBE JP	1960¹
Sir David Hughes Parry, Kt QC	1960¹
Professor Theodor Heuss	1961¹
Sir Paul Sinker, KCMG CB	1961¹
A P Steele-Perkins, MC	1962¹
Mrs Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst	1963¹
The Rt Hon. The Lord Helsby, GCB KBE DCL	1963
Sir Peter Scott, Kt CH CBE DSC	1963¹
The Rt Hon. Sir Henry Slesser, Kt PC JP	1963¹
Sir George Hayter-Hames, Kt CBE JP	1965¹
Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, GCB DSO	1965¹
Dr Henri Le Moal	1966
The Hon. Sir Leslie Scarman, Kt OBE	1966¹
Sir James Cook	1967¹
The Rt Hon. The Lord Caradon, PC GCMG KCVO OBE	1968¹
A S Neill	1968¹
Professor H Freville	1969¹
The Rt Hon. The Lord Roborough, JP	1969¹
J Whiteside, OBE	1969¹
Sir Alexander Cairncross, KCMG	1969
Sir Kenneth Wheare, CMG	1970¹
Sir Jack Hayward	1971
The Rt Hon. Lord Widgery, PC Kt OBE TD	1971¹
Dr Margaret Jackson, JP	1972¹
His Honour Judge Pratt	1972
The Very Revd Marcus Knight	1973¹
Sir John Llewellyn, KCMG	1973¹
Colonel J E Palmer, CBE TD DL	1974¹
The Rt Hon. Jeremy Thorpe	1974
M Robert Lecourt	1975
The Rt Hon. Lord Denning	1976¹
Dr R C Tress, CBE	1976
General Sir John Hackett, GCB CBE DSO MC	1977¹
The Hon. Lord Mackenzie Stuart	1978
Dr Kingman Brewster	1978¹
J C Alderson, CBE QPM	1979
Colonel Sir John Carew Pole, DSO TD JP	1979
The Rt Hon. The Viscount Boyd of Merton, PC CH DL	1980¹
Sir John Palmer	1980¹
R W Turner	1980¹
Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, CMG OBE	1980
R J S Hookway	1981¹
Sir Kelvin Spencer, CBE MC	1981¹
Lord Young of Dartington	1982¹
Sir Alan Dalton, CBE	1982
The Hon. Sir Jean-Pierre Warner	1983
Hugh Greenwood, OBE	1983
Miss Sheila Browne	1984
The Hon. Mr Justice Park	1984
The Hon. Sir Gordon Slynn	1985
Sir Robin Day, OBE	1986¹
Kenneth Rowe, MBE	1986
John Mortimer, QC CBE	1986
Frank Gillard, CBE	1987¹
C D Pike, OBE	1987
Sir Antony Acland	1988
W G Daw, OBE	1988¹
J L Smeall	1988¹
Sir Nicholas Goodison	1989
Sir John Smith, CBE	1989
Baroness Seear	1989
The Rt Hon. Michael Foot, MP	1990
Sir Brinsley Ford, Kt CBE	1990
Dr Eurfron Gwynne Jones	1990
Dr Halfdan Mahler	1990
Sir Richard Acland	1991¹
Lord Templeman, MBE	1991
The Rt Hon. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, DBE PC	1992
James Hetherington, CBE	1992
Christopher Pope, TD JP DL	1992
R K L Hill	1992
Professor Ian Mercer	1994
The Rt Hon. The Lord Owen	1994
Professor Robert Pennington	1994
Lieutenant General Sir Stewart Pringle	1994
Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC FRSA	1995¹
Nigel Beale	1995
Dr Zoltan P Dienes	1995
Lord Morley	1995
Sir David Calcutt, QC	1996
Peter Chalk	1996
Dame Stella Rimington	1996
Judge Sir Stephen Tumin	1996
Sir Edward George	1997
Professor Sir David Tweedie	1997
Lady Mary Holborow, JP	1997
Lord Rix	1997
The Rt Hon. Lord Butler, KCB GCB	1998
The Rt Hon. Lord Dearing, KCB	1998
The Rt Hon. Lord Nolan	1998
The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Phillips	1998
Tadeusz Mazoweicki	1998
Lord Rothschild	1998
Baroness Brenda Dean	1999
Professor Charles Handy	1999
Christopher Moon	1999
His All Holiness Bartholomew I, The Ecumenical Patriarch	2000
Lady Sally Greengross	2000
Margaret Lorenz	2000
Peter Sutherland	2000
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah	2001
Sir Peter Davis	2001
The Hon. Mr Justice Elias	2001
Timothy Smit	2001
Bridget Towle, CBE	2001
Ann Daniels	2002
Norman Hardyman, CB	2002
Bridget Kendall	2002
The Rt Hon Christopher Patten, CH PC	2002
Marjorie Scardino, DJur	2002
Sir David Walker, Kt	2002
The Rt Hon. The Lord Woolf of Barnes, Kt PC	2002
Angela Yeoman, OBE DL	2002
Prince Waleed bin Talal Al Saud	2002
Sir Geoffrey Holland	2003
Tanni Grey-Thompson	2003
Dame Suzi Leather	2003
Paul Myners, CBE	2003
Anthony Salz	2003
Lord Wilson of Dinton	2003
Sir Ewen Cameron, KB DL FRICS	2004
Irene Bishop	2004
Ian Powell	2004
Baroness Uddin	2004
Lord Justice Sedley	2004
Pen Hadow	2004
Michael Caines	2004
Jane Henderson	2005
Abdullah Gull	2005
Ben Ainslie	2005
John Allwood	2005
Sir Tom Shebbeare	2005
Admiral Sir Jonathon Band	2005
Baroness Prashar	2005
Tony Robinson	2005
Stewart Purvis	2005
Jonathan Edwards	2005
Roderick Ross	2006
Sir Anthony Clarke	2006
Frank Gardner	2007
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu	2007
Yusuf Islam	2007
Anthony Gibson	2007
Sir Robert Owen	2007
Sir Peter Job	2007
Sir Richard Dearlove	2007
Ray Dillon	2007
Sir Clive Woodward	2007
Richard Hooper	2007

Doctor of Letters (DLitt)

The Rt Hon. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, KT GBE	1956¹
Principal John Murray	1956¹
The Most Hon. The Marquess of Salisbury, KG	1956¹
The Rt Hon. Isaac Foot, JP	1959¹
M Paul Henry	1959¹
Ernest Newman	1959¹
Carl Dolmetsch, CBE	1960¹
The Rt Hon. The Lord Robbins, CH CB	1960¹
Dr A L Rowse	1960¹
Dr Enid Starkie, CBE	1960¹
Bernard Leach, CBE	1961¹
Lady Mallowan, DBE	1961¹
Professor Marcel Bataillon	1965¹
Professor Herbert Dieckmann	1965¹
Cecil Day Lewis, CBE	1965¹
Professor Cleanth Brooks, MA	1966
Sir Frank Francis, KCB	1966¹
Dame Barbara Hepworth, DBE	1966¹
Sir Martin Davies, Kt CBE	1968¹
Emeritus Professor V H Galbraith	1968¹
Professor The Lord Holford, DCL	1968¹
Emeritus Professor G Wilson Knight, CBE	1968¹
Miss Imogen Holst, CBE	1969¹
H L Beales	1969¹
Dr Kathleen Kenyon, DBE	1969¹
G E Fussell	1970¹
Revd Canon J B Phillips	1970¹
Sir John Betjeman, Kt CBE	1971¹
Dr Frances Yates, DBE	1971¹
Dr L K Elmhirst	1972¹
Emeritus Professor Sir Raymond Firth, Kt	1972
Dr C A Ralegh Radford	1973¹
Emeritus Professor David Douglas	1974¹
Emeritus Professor W G Hoskins, CBE	1974¹
Dr P J V D Balsdon	1975¹
Professor René Marache	1975¹
Emeritus Professor Michael Oakeshott	1975
Emeritus Professor H B Garland, JP	1977¹
Charles S Causley, CBE	1977
Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE	1977¹
Alfred K Hamilton Jenkin	1978¹
Professor Christopher Hill	1979
Emeritus Professor Frank Barlow, CBE	1981
Jack Clemo	1981¹
Emeritus Professor Robert Niklaus	1981¹
M G Brock, CBE	1982
Patrick Heron, CBE	1982¹
Ted Hughes, OBE OM	1982¹
John Fowles	1983¹
Emeritus Professor F J Fisher	1983¹
William Trevor, CBE	1984
Sir Michael Hordern, CBE	1985¹
Lady (Aileen) Fox	1985¹
Fred L Harris, OBE	1986¹
Vivian Richards	1986
Ewan MacColl	1986¹
Baroness Warnock, OBE	1987
Glenda Jackson, CBE	1988
Dame Elisabeth Frink	1988¹
Professor F W Walbank, CBE	1988
Dr Sylvia Kantaris	1989
Wayne Sleep	1989
Professor Jean-François Botrel	1990
David Cornwell	1990
Dr Gerald Aylmer	1991
Peter Ackroyd	1992
Sir Anthony Parsons, GCMG MVO MC	1992¹
Robert P Cohan, CBE	1993
Dr Michael Screech	1993
Mary Wesley	1993¹
His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan bin Mohammad Al-Qasimi	1993
Sir George Christie	1994
Professor Mary Douglas, DBE FBA	1995
Marina Warner, FRSL	1995
Sir Alan Bowness	1996
Sir William Stubbs	1996
Professor T R P Brighouse	1996
Professor Joyce Youings	1997
Bridget Riley, CBE	1997
Robert Neil MacGregor	1998
Sir Terry Frost	1999¹
Edward Mortimer	1999
Professor Andrew Motion	1999
Adrian Noble	1999
Joanne K Rowling, OBE	2000
Sir Nicholas Serota	2000
Professor Mohammed Arkoun	2001
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham	2001¹
Helen Dunmore	2001
Susan Hampshire	2001
Seamus Heaney	2001
Professor Edward Said	2001¹
Lord Weidenfeld	2001
Christopher Bruce, CBE	2001
Sir Tim Rice, Kt	2002
Rick Stein	2002
Simon Jenkins	2003
Sir Christopher Ondaatje	2003
Sir Antony Sher	2003
Jatinder Verma	2003
Paul Jackson	2004
Ben Okri	2004
Michael Morpurgo	2004
Barbara Jefford	2004
Floella Benjamin	2005
Jane Lapotaire	2005
Benjamin Zephaniah	2005
Alan Cotton	2006
Adrian Edmondson	2007
Jennifer Saunders	2007
David Eldridge	2007
Beverley Naidoo	2007
Michael Rosen	2007
Posy Simmonds	2007
Kurt Jackson	2007

Doctor of Music (DMus)

Malcolm Arnold, CBE	1970
Sir David Willcocks, CBE MC	1976
John Richard Lill	1979
Benjamin Luxon, CBE	1980
Dr Jane Glover	1986
Professor John Edgar Stevens, CBE	1989
Snr Joaquin Rodrigo	1990¹
Dr Lionel Dakers, CBE	1991¹
Sándor Végh, HonCBE	1993¹
Alfred Brendel, HonKBE	1998
Imogen Cooper	1999
Evelyn Glennie, DBE	2000
Dame Gillian Weir	2001

Doctor of Science (DSc)

Sir James Chadwick, Kt	1956¹
Sir Harry Melville, KCB	1959
Sir Frederick Russell, Kt CBE	1960¹
The Rt Hon. The Lord Todd	1960¹
Professor Sir William Hodge, Kt	1961¹
Professor Sydney Chapman	1963¹
Professor A V Hill, CH OBE	1963¹
Professor Sir Dudley Stamp, Kt CBE	1965¹
Sir Patrick Linstead, Kt CBE	1965¹
Professor The Lord Blackett, CH	1966¹
The Revd William Keble Martin	1966¹
Professor Mrs D C Hodgkin, OM	1968
Sir Eric Smith, CBE	1968
Professor B F Skinner	1969¹
Sir Eric Eastwood, Kt CBE	1969¹
Sir Peter Medawar, CH KBE	1969¹
Professor P H Kuenen	1970¹
Sir Hugh Tett, Kt	1970
Professor Sir Frederick Dainton, Kt	1971
Professor C T Ingold, CMG	1972
Andrew Stratton	1972¹
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, KBE OM CB	1973¹
Dr L H N Cooper, DBE	1974
Dr H M Stanley	1974
Sir Rodney Smith, Kt	1974
Sir Kingsley Dunham, Kt	1975
Sir Rex Richards	1975
Professor Sir Eric Denton, CBE	1976
Professor Antony Hewish	1977
Dr P D Mitchell	1977¹
Dr G C Ainsworth	1978¹
Professor G Higman	1979
Professor Sir Edward Abraham, CBE	1980
Professor P G Burke	1981
Professor W K Hayman	1981
Emeritus Professor H N Rydon	1981¹
Sir John Kendrew, CBE	1982
Professor Sir David Phillips	1982¹
Dr L L Iversen	1982
Professor B D Josephson	1983
Professor R Aris	1984
K Ellitsgaard Rasmussen	1984
Professor Sir Alan Harris	1984
Sir John Gray	1985
Sir Austin Pearce, CBE	1985
Professor Harry Kay, CBE	1985¹
Professor Sir David Smith	1986
Richard Stanton-Jones	1987
Professor Abdus Salam	1987
Professor Daphne Jackson	1988¹
Professor J E Lovelock	1988
F J M Laver, CBE	1988
Brother Adam, OBE	1989¹
Sir John Quicke, CBE	1989
Sir John Harvey-Jones, MBE	1989
Professor Peter Bradshaw	1990
Lady Anne Palmer	1990
Professor Margaret Turner-Warwick, DBE	1990
Professor Michael Berry	1991
Dr Sheila Cassidy	1991
Dr Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yakovlev	1991¹
Professor Frank Harary	1992
Professor F Gordon A Stone, CBE FRS	1992
Sir John Banham	1993
Sir John Cullen	1993
Professor David Rees, FRS	1993
Robert Wilson	1993
Dr Clive Gronow	1994
Professor Andrew Lang, FRS	1994
Revd Professor John Polkinghorne	1994
Sir David Harrison, CBE	1995
Professor Sir John Knill	1995
Professor Elizabeth J Yerxa	1995
Professor Richard L Gregory	1996
Samuel E Jonah	1996
Sir Maurice Laing	1996
Professor Sir Michael Peckham	1996
Hugh Allen	1997
Sir Donald Irvine, CBE	1997
Professor John Krebs, FRS	1998
Dato’ Mohamad Idris Mansor	1998
Professor Susan Greenfield	1999
Dame Bridget Ogilvie	1999
Helen Sharman	1999
Sir Crispin Tickell	1999
Professor David Warren Turner	1999
Professor Sir David Wetherall	1999
Professor Edward W Abel, CBE	2000
Professor Per-Olaf Astrand	2000
Professor Sir Ghillean Prance	2000
Dr John Taylor	2000
Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS	2001
Professor Jane Plant CBE	2001
Professor Dame Lesley Southgate	2001
Professor George Gray, CBE FRS	2002
Dr Timothy Hunt	2002
Richard Case	2003
Sir Christopher Evans, OBE	2003
Sir John Sulston	2003
Professor Dame Julia Higgins	2004
Professor Lord Robert Winston	2004
Sir Peter Mansfield	2005
Michael Fish	2005
Peter Ewins	2006
Sir John Beringer	2006
Professor William Wakeham	2006
Brian May	2007
Sir Nicholas Stern	2007
Professor Dame Carol Black	2007

Master of Arts (MA)

A K Woodbridge	1957¹
Gerald Whitmarsh, CBE	1965¹
Miss Margaret Digby, OBE	1966
Mrs E A Paddon	1968¹
J A Church	1971
Norman Lyne	1973
Mrs Vera Lloyd	1974¹
Miss Constance R Henson, MBE	1976
R J Keast	1978¹
Miss Mollie Clarke, OBE	1979
Miss Jean Boxall	1982¹
Mrs Gene Kemp	1984

Master of Science (MSc)

L M Tate, OBE	1968¹
Mrs Stella M Turk	1980
A G Crouch	1981¹
D R Barber	1987

¹ Deceased