Honorary Graduates 1966 to 1988
1966
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Rt Hon Eric Ashby | DSc | October 1992 |
| Sir George Dowty | DSc | December 1975 |
| Professor Ronald Edwards | DSc | January 1976 |
| Sir Arnold Hall | DSc | January 2000 |
| Rt Hon Hinton of Bankside | DSc | July 1983 |
| Rt Hon Aubrey Jones | DSc | April 2003 |
| Lord Kearton of Whitchurch | DSc | July 1992 |
| Sir Philip Morris | LLD | December 1979 |
| Lord Penney | DSc | March 1991 |
| Professor Emeritus Seymour Redshaw | DSc | 1995 |
| Dr Frederick Tinnion | DSc | 1982 |
1967
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Harold Allen | DSc | 1996 |
| Dr Oliver Bulleid | DSc | April 1970 |
| Dr Ralph Chirnside | DSc | March 1983 |
| Dr Jared Dixon | LLD | March 1989 |
| Professor Howard Kearns | DSc | August 1986 |
| Sir Bernard Lovell OBE FRS | DSc | August 2012 |
| Professor Frank Robinson | DSc | August 1988 |
| Air Commodore Frank Whittle | DSc | August 1996 |
1968
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Rt Hon Edward Boyle of Handsworth | LLD | September 1981 |
| Professor Leopold Escande | DSc | 1980 |
| Professor Michael Lighthill | DSc | July 1998 |
| Dr George Moore | LLD | March 1993 |
| Dr Thomas Whittet | DSc | January 1986 |
| Baroness Wootton of Abinger | DSc | June 1988 |
1969
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Frederick Bawden | DSc | February 1972 |
| Dame Kathleen Lonsdale | DSc | April 1971 |
| Rt Hon Horrace Maybray-King | LLD | September 1986 |
| Rt Hon Lord Yehudi Menuhin | LLD | May 1999 |
| Professor Reginald Revans | DSc | January 2003 |
| Professor Andrew Robertson | DSc | July 1969 |
1970
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Henry Bunker | DSc | August 1975 |
| Lord Frederick Dainton | DSc | December 1997 |
| Sir Hamish Maclaren | DSc | October 1990 |
| Rt Hon Paul Methuen | LLD | 1974 |
| Sir James Pitman | DLitt | September 1985 |
| Dr Cosby Smallpeice | DSc | 1978 |
1971
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Horace Brand | DLitt | February 1983 |
| Professor Arthur Collar | DSc | February 1986 |
| Dr George Kersley | DSc | September 1993 |
| Dr Alexander Moulton CBE RDI FREng | DSc | December 2012 |
| Dr Hugh Rogers | DSc | March 1991 |
1972
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Sydney Barratt | DSc | August 1975 |
| Rt Hon Kenneth Clark of Saltwood | DLitt | May 1983 |
| Dr John Clark | LLD | February 1985 |
| Rt Hon Viscount Eccles | DLitt | February 1999 |
| Professor Kenneth J Murton | MSc | November 2014 |
| Sir Michael Tippett | DLitt | January 1998 |
1973
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Alan Cottrell FRS FREng | DSc | February 2012 |
| Sir Gordon Cox | DSc | June 1996 |
| Sir Charles Frank | DSc | April 1998 |
| Dr Ernest Herbert | DSc | December 1988 |
| Mr Raymond Leppard CBE | DLitt | |
| Lionel Rolt | MSc | May 1974 |
1974
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Kenneth Berrill GBE KCB | LLD | April 2009 |
| Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRAS DSc | DSc | September 2005 |
| Mrs Ada Hanna | MA | December 1981 |
| Dr Arnold Haskell | DLitt | November 1980 |
| Leslie Scott | MA | September 1978 |
| Sir Alfred Sims | DSc | August 1977 |
| Professor John Young | DSc | July 1997 |
1975
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Cuthbert Bates | MA | April 1980 |
| Miss Amy Cadwallader | MA | Deceased date unknown |
| Sir Emrys Jones | DSc | September 1987 |
| The Reverend Edward Henderson | DLitt | June 1986 |
| Sir Stanley Hooker | DSc | May 1984 |
| Sir William Cook | DSc | June 2000 |
| Sir Kenneth Mather | DSc | March 1990 |
| Lt Colonel Francis Seymour-Williams | MA | August 1975 |
1976
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir David Collins | DSc | June 1983 |
| Rt Hon Arnold Goodman | LLD | May 1995 |
| Mr Bevan Horstmann | MA | June 1998 |
| Sir Edwin Leather KCMG KCVO | LLD | April 2005 |
| Professor James Meade | DSc | December 1995 |
| Hugh Morris | MA | June 1986 |
| Professor Gordon Rawcliffe | DSc | July 1979 |
| Professor Larry Rotherham | DSc | March 2001 |
| Professor Percival Sheppard | DSc | January 1978 |
1977
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| The Rt Hon Lord Dahrendorf KBE FBA | DSc | June 2009 |
| Sir Harold Finniston | DSc | February 1991 |
| Sir Alexander Merrison | DSc | February 1989 |
| Sir Charles Oatley | DSc | February 1996 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Rees-Mogg | LLD | December 2012 |
| Mr Robin Tanner | MA | May 1988 |
| Sir Robert Williams | DSc | May 2003 |
1978
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Sir Samuel Edwards FRS | DSc | May 2015 |
| Professor Sir Hugh Ford FRS FREng | DSc | May 2010 |
| Dr Rodney Hill FRS | DSc | February 2011 |
| Professor Dorothy Hodgkin | DSc | July 1994 |
| The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins | LLD | January 2003 |
| Sir Ieuan Maddock | DSc | December 1988 |
| Rt Hon Nathaniel Rothschild | DSc | March 1990 |
| The Rt Hon Arnold Weinstock | DSc | July 2002 |
1979
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Professor John Anderson | DSc | December 1990 |
| Mr Alleyne Berry | MA | September 1989 |
| Professor Leonard Forster | DLitt | April 1997 |
| Sir George Godber GCB | DSc | February 2009 |
| Sir Robert Hunt | DSc | September 2004 |
| Professor Tom Kilburn | DSc | January 2001 |
| Sir Peter Scott | DSc | September 1989 |
1980
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Harry Ansoff | DSc | July 2002 |
| Sir Raymond Brown | DSc | September 1991 |
| Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS FIBiol | DSc | |
| Prof Eur Ing Frei Otto | DSc | March 2016 |
| Mr Harold Wassell | MEng | September 1983 |
| Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson | DSc | September 1996 |
| The Rt Hon The Baroness Williams of Crosby PC | DLitt |
1981
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS | DSc | |
| Dr William Brandt | DLitt | December 1983 |
| Professor Gillian Brown | LLD | 1999 |
| Dr Duncan Davies | DSc | March 1987 |
| Dr Glyn England FREng FIEE FIMechE | DSc | June 2013 |
| Sir William Hawthorne CBE FRS FREng FIMechE | DSc | September 2011 |
| Sir Douglas Henley | LLD | October 2003 |
| Sir Richard Morris CBE FREng | DSc | 2008 |
| Sir Richard O'Brien DSO MC | LLD | December 2009 |
| Professor Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer KBE FRS | DSc |
1982
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Kenneth Corfield KT CE FEng FInstBM FIMechE | DSc | January 2016 |
| Professor John Heslop-Harrison | DSc | May 1998 |
| Mr Reginald Parker MIMechE MIProdE | MSc | |
| Sir Peter Parker | LLD | April 2002 |
| Sir D'Arcy Reilly | DLitt | October 1999 |
| Sir Derek Roberts FRS FREng FInstP | DSc | |
| Baroness Nancy Seear of Paddington | DLitt | April 1997 |
1983
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Rudolf Augstein | DLitt | May 2003 |
| Professor Peter Danckwerts | DSc | October 1994 |
| Professor Paul Matthews | DSc | February 1987 |
| Dame Iris Murdoch | DLitt | February 1999 |
| Sir Clive Sinclair | DSc | |
| Baroness Eirene White of Rhymney | LLD | December 1999 |
1984
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Roger Bannister CBE DM (Oon) FRCP | DSc | |
| Professor Sir Basil Blackwell | DSc | May 2003 |
| Professor Barry Cunliffe CBE FBA FSA | DSc | |
| Sir William Glock | DLitt | June 2000 |
| Dr Simon Nora | DLitt | March 2006 |
| Sir Kenneth Selby | LLD | November 1992 |
| Professor Amartya Sen Hon CH FBA | DSc | |
| Sir Robert Telford CBE DL FREng FIEE | DSc | March 2008 |
1985
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Geoffrey Allen | DSc | |
| Mr Stanley Hamilton | MSc | February 1999 |
| Professor Fritz John | DSc | January 1996 |
| Dr Peter King | DSc | 2003 |
| Dr James Nisbet | DSc | May 2009 |
| Dr Randolph Quirk | DLitt | |
| Professor David Tabor | DSc | November 2005 |
| Sir Douglas Wass | DLitt |
1986
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Heather Angel | DSc | |
| Professor Sir James Baddiley FRS FRSE | DSc | November 2009 |
| Sir William Barlow FREng FIMechE FIEE FCGI | DSc | May 2012 |
| Mrs Patricia Bishop | MA | |
| Dr John Bolton | DSc | March 2003 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Chilver FRS FREng | DSc | July 2012 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM | DSc | |
| Professor David Kendall FRS | DSc | October 2007 |
| Ms June Mendoza AO OBE RP RDI | DLitt | |
| Dame Maggie Smith DBE | DLitt |
1987
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Ms Kate Adie OBE | MA | |
| Sir John Banham DL | LLD | |
| Sir John Burgh KCMG CB | LLD | April 2016 |
| Professor Margaret Gowing | DSc | November 1998 |
| Dr Bob Holder | LLD | |
| Sir David Jack CBE FRS FRSE | DSc | |
| Sir Denis Rooke OM CBE FRS FREng | LLD | September 2008 |
| The Rt Hon The Baroness Warnock DBE | DLitt | |
| Sir Maurice Wilkes FRS FEng FIEE FBCS | DSc | November 2010 |
| Ms Youyun Zhang | MA |
1988
| Honorary Graduate | Degree conferred | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Robert Ballard | DSc | |
| Sir Walter Bodmer FRS FIBiol FRCPath | DSc | |
| Sir Arthur C Clarke CBE | DLitt | March 2008 |
| Ms Isabel Colegate | MA | |
| Sir John Egan DL | LLD | |
| Professor Fritz Leonhardt | DSc | December 1999 |
| Professor Golo Mann | DLitt | April 1994 |
| Ms Fay Weldon CBE FRSL | DLitt | |
| Dr Andreas Whittam Smith CBE | LLD |
