Jump to content

List of honorary graduates of the University of Leeds

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This list of Honorary Graduates of the University of Leeds is a year-by-year list of people recognized by the University of Leeds for their achievements in their given field with an honorary award.[1]

An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa (Latin: 'for the sake of the honour') is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements (such as matriculation, residence, study and the passing of examinations). The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution.

Key
DEng Doctor of Engineering
DLitt Doctor of Letters
DM Doctor of Medicine
DMus Doctor of Music
DSc Doctor of Science
LLD Doctor of Laws

2020s

[edit]

2024[2]

2023[3]

2022[4]

No honorary degrees were awarded in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

2010s

[edit]

2019[5]

2018[6]

2017[7]

2016[8]

2015[9]

2014[10]

2013

2012

2011

2010[11]

2000s

[edit]
Sunil Mittal, honoured in 2009

2009

2008

Albert Fert, honoured in 2008

2007

Dr. Piers Sellers, honoured in 2007
Lynne Brindley honoured in 2006

2006

Sir David Cox, honoured in 2005

2005

Sir Ian McKellen honoured in 2004

2004

Dame Judi Dench honoured in 2002

2003

Lord Melvyn Bragg honoured in 2000

2002

2001

2000

1990s

[edit]
Jeremy Paxman, honoured in 1999

1999

1998

  • No honors conferred in this academic year.

1997

Jack Straw, honoured in 1999

1996

Harold 'Dickie' Bird, honoured in 1997

1995

Manmohan Singh, honoured in 1995

1994

Anish Kapoor, honoured in 1993

1993

1992

Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, honoured in 1990

1991

1990

1980s

[edit]
Caspar Weinberger, honoured in 1989

1989

1988

Roy McMurtry, honoured in 1988

1987

Professor Stephen Hawking, honoured in 1987

1986

1985

1984

Roy Colin Strong, honoured in 1983

1983

Willy Brandt, honoured in 1982

1982

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, honoured in 1982

1981

1980

1970s

[edit]

1979

1978

1977

  • Sir Kenneth Lyon Blaxter (DSc)
  • Professor Sheppard Sunderland Frere (DLitt)
  • Arthur Koestler (DLitt)
  • Professor William Norton Medlicott (DLitt)
  • Sir Claus Moser (PhD)
  • Innocentina Tomasini Pearmain (MA)
  • Lord Alexander of Potterhill (DLitt)
  • John Collins Siddons (MSc)
  • Edmund Williamson (LLD)

1976

1975

1974

1973

1972

  • Baroness Bacon (Alice Martha) (LLD)
  • Lady Barbirolli (Evelyn Rothwell) (MA)
  • Nadia Boulanger (DMus)
  • Sir Colin Douglas Buchanan (DSc)
  • Sir Alec Clegg (LLD)
  • Professor V.L. Ginzburg (DLitt)
  • Vaughan Loach (LLD)
  • Arthur Stanley Maney (MA)
  • Victor Sawdon Pritchett (DLitt)
  • Arthur Raistrick (DLitt)
  • Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (DLitt)
  • Professor Helmut Zahn (DSc)

1971

1970

1960s

[edit]

1969

1968

1967

1966

1965

  • Professor Saul Alder (DSc)
  • Lord Edward Boyle (LLD)
  • Lord Brock (LLD)
  • Professor Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (DLitt)
  • Sir Charles Illingworth (LLD)
  • Frank Leavis (DLitt)
  • Shrimati Hansa Mehta (LLD)
  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (DSc)
  • Professor Johannes Franciscus Nuboer (LLD)
  • Frederick Oppenheim (LLD)
  • Henry Platt (LLD)
  • Emeritus Professor Leslie Norman Pyrah (DSc)
  • Sir Michael Kent Tippett (DMus)
  • Canon Rowland John Wood (MA)

1964

1963

  • Professor Alfred Gustave Herbert Bachrach (DLitt)
  • Ralph Chislett (MSc)
  • Charles Henry Crabtree (LLD)
  • Frank Dawtry (MA)
  • Lord Denning (LLD)
  • Kenneth Onwuka Dike (LLD)
  • Frederick George Baxendale Hutchings (MA)
  • Col. Geoffrey Kitson (LLD)
  • Lord Lever (LLD)
  • Lady Mary Helen Oglivie (LLD)

1962

1961

1960

  • Ivy Compton-Burnett (DLitt)
  • Barker Thomas Clegg (LLD)
  • Philip Gooding (MSc)
  • Sir Edwin Herbert (LLD)
  • William Colley Monckton Matterson (MSc)
  • Sir John Neale (DLitt)
  • Sir George Sansom (DLitt)

1950s

[edit]

1959

1958

  • Professor Oene Bottema (LLD)
  • Mary Lucy Cartwright (DSc)
  • Frederick Donald Coggan (DD)
  • Professor Sir John G Edwards (DLitt)
  • Professor Peter Racine Fricker (DMus)
  • William Harrison (LLD)
  • George Kirk (MA)
  • Professor Walter Von Wartburg (DLitt)

1957

  • Lord Janner (LLD) Sir Ivor Jennings (LLD)
  • Margaret Mead (DSc)
  • Professor Gunnar Myrdal (LLD)
  • Lord Ramsey of Canterbury (DD)
  • Mary Stocks (LLD)
  • E.W. Taylor (DSc)
  • Lord Weeks (LLD)

1956

1955

  • Sir William Linton Andrews (DSc)
  • Major Philip Maurice Beachcroft (LLD)
  • Sydney Clayton Fryers (MA)
  • Lord Middleton (LLD)
  • Emeritus Professor William Milne (LLD)
  • Edwin Muir (DLitt)
  • John Henry Nicholson (LLD)
  • Dorothy Phillips (LLD)
  • Joseph Slepian (DSc)
  • Professor Bruno Snell (DLitt)

1954

1953

  • Professor John Baker (DSc)
  • Goodwin Batterson Beach (DLitt)
  • Professor Petrus Johannes Enk (DLitt)
  • Margot Fonteyn (DLitt)
  • Eugene Freyssinet (DSc)
  • Thomas Girtin (LLD)
  • Eric Craven Gregory (LLD)
  • Professor Charles Huggins (DSc)
  • Professor Christopher Kelk Ingold (DSc)
  • Cyril Meggitt (MA)
  • Lord Milner of Leeds (LLD)
  • Alfred Prior (MA)
  • William Hunter Rose (MSc)
  • Viscount Herbert Louis Samuel (DLitt)
  • Percy Scholes (DLitt)
  • Ronald Ogier Ward (DSc)
  • John Wilkinson (MSc)

1952

  • Albert Herman Aldridge (LLD)
  • Professor Marius Adolphus Van Bouwdijk Bastiaanse (LLD)
  • Ernest Green (LLD)
  • Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (DSc)
  • Sir Eardley Holland (LLD)
  • Wyndham Lewis (DLitt)
  • Arthur Ransome (DLitt)
  • William Riley-Smith (LLD)
  • Sir James Turner (LLD)

1951

1950

  • Sir Robert Birley (LLD)
  • Lord (David) Cecil (DLitt)
  • Lord (Francis Raymond) Evershed (LLD)
  • Professor Barker Fairley (DLitt)
  • Emeritus Professor Robert Whytlaw-Gray (DSc)
  • Alexander Lindsay (LLD)
  • Louis Harold Mountbatten (LLD)
  • William Pickles (DSc)
  • Major Walter Pothecary (LLD)

1940s

[edit]

1949

1948

1947

1946

1945

1944

1943

1942

1941

  • Emeritus Professor Paul Barbier (DLitt)
  • Emeritus Professor John William Cobb (DSc)
  • Emeritus Professor Alexander Thompson (LLD)

1930s

[edit]

1939

  • Stanley Baldwin (LLD)
  • Sir William Lawrence Bragg (DSc)
  • Edward William Cavendish (LLD)
  • John Whelan Dulanty (LLD)
  • Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (DSc)
  • Thomas Stearns Eliot (DLitt)
  • Dowager Countess of Halifax (LLD)
  • Sir William Holdsworth (DLitt)
  • John Edward Humphery (LLD)
  • John Kirk (PhD)
  • Sir John Charles Ledingham (DSc)
  • Rev. Charles Lunt (DD)
  • Sir Charles McGrath (LLD)
  • William Morrison (LLD)
  • Frank Parkinson (LLD)
  • Leonard Rowden (DSc)
  • Sir Frank Stenton (DLitt)
  • Sir John Stopford (DSc)
  • Rev. Vincent Taylor (DD)

1938

  • Rupert Beckett (LLD)
  • William Sawney Bisat (MSc)
  • Arthur Neville Chamberlain (LLD)
  • Cecil John Turrell Cronshaw (DSc)
  • Professor Alfred Fowler (DSc)
  • Professor Edmund Johnston Garwood (DSc)
  • Giovanni Gentile (DLitt)
  • Walter Parsons (PhD)

1937

  • Lord George Ranken Askwith (LLD)
  • Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Melbourne (LLD)
  • Professor George Stuart Gordon (DLitt)
  • Professor John Jamieson (LLD)
  • Joseph Jones (LLD)
  • Rev. Frederick Wiseman (DLitt)

1936

  • Sir Edward Bairstow (DMus)
  • John Jeremy Brigg (LLD)
  • Raymond Wilson Chambers (DLitt)
  • Sir Henry Herbert Craster (DLitt)
  • Henry Drysdale Dakin (LLD)
  • Richard James Gordon (MA)
  • Professor Arthur Berriedale Keith (LLD)
  • Professor Frederic Stanley Kipping (DSc)
  • Henry Lanchester (DLitt)
  • Langford Price (LLD)
  • Sir Josiah Stamp (LLD)
  • Norman Walker (MSc)

1935

  • Professor Harvey Cushing (DSc)
  • Walter Elliot (LLD)
  • Rev. Canon George Garrod (PhD)
  • The Earl of Harewood (Henry Lascelles) (LLD)
  • Ernest Rutherford (DSc)
  • Emeritus Professor William Stroud (DSc)

1934

  • Sir Robert Wilfred De Yarburgh Bateson (LLD)
  • Emeritus Professor Joseph Shaw Bolton (DSc)
  • Professor John Harold Clapham (DLitt)
  • Beryl Katherine Gott (LLD)
  • Sir Henry Stuart- Jones (DLitt)
  • Arthur Mann (LLD)
  • Sir Robert Muir (DSc)
  • Elizabeth Mary Wright (DLitt)

1933

  • Francis Askew (LLD)
  • Frederick Delius (DLitt)
  • Frank Elgee (PhD)
  • Emeritus Professor Arthur James Grant (DLitt)
  • Sir Charles Peers (DLitt)
  • Sir John Simon (LLD)
  • Col. Charles Harold Tetley (LLD)
  • Sir Joseph Thomson (DSc)
  • Elizabeth Winfield (MA)
  • Henry Worth (MSc)

1932

  • Sir James Hinchcliffe (LLD)
  • Osbert John Howarth (PhD)
  • Dame Ellen Musson (LLD)
  • Professor Sir Herbert Read (DLitt)

1931

  • Emeritus Professor Alfred George Barrs (LLD)
  • Bertrand Dawson (LLD)
  • Sir Walter Morley Fletcher (DSc)
  • Arthur Hawkyard (LLD)
  • Sir Frederick Hopkins (DSc)
  • Sir George Newman (LLD)
  • Sir John Bland-Sutton (LLD)
  • Jane Harriett Walker (LLD)

1930

  • Henry Crowther (MSc)
  • Arthur Greenwood (LLD)
  • Sir William Hadow (DLitt)
  • Walter Hargreaves (LLD)
  • Sir Owen Richardson (DSc)
  • Rev. William Temple (LLD)
  • Sir Henry Walker (LLD)

1920s

[edit]

1929

  • William Edwards (DLitt)
  • Sir Algernon Freeman Firth (LLD)
  • Rt. Rev. Walter Howard Frere (DLitt)
  • Emeritus Professor Thomas Griffith (DSc)
  • Lucy Lowe (DLitt)
  • Charles Mayo (DSc)

1928

1927

1926

1925

1924

  • Edmund George Arnold (LLD)
  • Arthur Balfour (LLD)[16]
  • George Robinson Brench (MA)
  • Col. Stephenson Robert Clarke (LLD)
  • Emeritus Professor Julius Behrend Cohen (DSc)
  • Emeritus Professor John Edwin Eddison (DSc)
  • William Foot Husband (LLD)
  • Sir Percy Jackson (LLD)
  • Joseph Lowden (LLD)
  • Professor Sir Berkeley Moynihan (LLD)
  • Hannah Robertson (DLitt)
  • Sir Michael Sadler (DLitt)
  • Herbert Thompson (DLitt)

1923

1922

1920

1910s

[edit]

1919

1917

Herbert Austin Fricker
  • Herbert Austin Fricker (MA)

1915

1914

  • Thomas Scales Carter (MSc)
  • Emeritus Professor Henry Procter (DSc)
  • Emeritus Professor Charles Vaughan (DLitt)
  • Emile Verhaeren (DLitt)

1912

1910

1900s

[edit]

1909

1907

1906

1904

Sources

[edit]
  • "Honorary graduates 1904 to present". University of Leeds.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Honorary graduates". University of Leeds.
  2. ^ "Inspirational trio receive Honorary Degrees". University of Leeds. 25 July 2024. Archived from the original on 29 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Honorary Degrees 2023". University of Leeds. 18 July 2023. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Honorary Degrees 2022". University of Leeds. 5 July 2022. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Honorary Graduates". University of Leeds. July 2019. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Honorary Graduates". University of Leeds. July 2018. Archived from the original on 24 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Honorary Graduates". University of Leeds. July 2017. Archived from the original on 14 December 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  8. ^ "University announces honorary degrees 2016". University of Leeds. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  9. ^ "University of Leeds awards honorary degrees". University of Leeds. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Honorary graduates". University of Leeds. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  11. ^ "Innovative, pioneering, influential - Leeds honours excellence". University of Leeds. 12 July 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  12. ^ "News in brief". The Reporter. No. 518. University of Leeds. 24 July 2006.
  13. ^ "Honorary graduates 1904 - 2016". University of Leeds. p. 7.
  14. ^ "Degree for Sir Arthur Stanley". Leeds Mercury. No. 26, 732. 10 July 1925. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  15. ^ "The Passing Bell" (PDF). The British Journal of Nursing. 85 (2025): 109. April 1937.
  16. ^ "Honour for Earl of Balfour". The Scotsman. No. 25, 446. 17 December 1924. p. 8 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_honorary_graduates_of_the_University_of_Leeds&oldid=1237356285"