List of honorary graduates of the University of Exeter
DDiv | Doctor of Divinity |
DEng | Doctor of Engineering |
LLD | Doctor of Laws |
DLitt | Doctor of Letters |
DM | Doctor of Medicine |
DMus | Doctor of Music |
DSc | Doctor of Science |
MA | Master of Arts |
MSc | Master of Science |
This list of Honorary Graduates of the University of Exeter is a year-by-year list of people recognized by the University of Exeter 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.
2020s[]
2021
2020
- Anastasios Paul Leventis (LLD)
2010s[]
2019
- Chunli Bai (DSc)
- Kate Lampard CBE (LLD)
- Teresa Gleadowe (DLitt)
- Moira Marder (LLD)
- Reni Eddo-Lodge (DLitt)
- Richard Hughes FCA (LLD)
- Roderick MacSween (DLitt)
- Karime Hassan (LLD)
- Hugo Tagholm (DSc)
- Sarah Mullally DBE, PC (DDiv)
- Professor Joseph Sung (DSc)
- Elena Becker-Barroso (DSc)
- Dame Mary Beard DBE, FSA, FBA (DLitt)
- Gordon Marshall CBE (LLD)
- Howard Fillit MD (DSc)
- Eliud Kipchoge (LLD)
2018
- Ruth Hunt (LLD)
- John Simpson CBE (DLitt)
- Simon Timson (DSc)
- Sir John Savill FRSE, FMedSci, FRS (DSc)
- Sir Simon Charles Wessely FMedSci (DSc)
- Alan Johnson PC (LLD)
- Felix Barrett MBE (DLitt)
- Sir Robin Nicholson FRS (DSc)
- Raymond J. St. Leger (DSc)
- Robert McCrum (DLitt)
- Natasha Trethewey (DLitt)
- Barbara Vann DL (DSc)
- Laura Penhaul (LLD)
- Andrew Garrad CBE (DEng)
- Adama Dieng (LLD)
- Neil Woodford CBE (LLD)
- Jeremy Hughes CBE (DSc)
2017
- Lieutenant Colonel Lucy Giles (LLD)
- Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth (DLitt)
- Alex Farquharson (DLitt)
- Lindsey Hilsum (DLitt)
- Sir Donald McCullin CBE, Hon FRPS (DLitt)
- Lady Studholme (DLitt)
- Philip Collins (DLitt)
- Tony Sewell CBE (LLD)
- Rob Baxter (LLD)
- Jonathan Adams (DSc)
- Mireille Gillings (DSc)
- Bertil Andersson (DSc)
- Peter Lacey (LLD)
- Helen Brand OBE (LLD)
- Hilary Evans (DSc)
- Ian L. Boyd FSB, FSRE (DSc)
- Augustin Hadelich (DMus)
- The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (LLD)
2016
- Clare Marx CBE, DL, PRCS (DSc)
- Sir Robert Francis QC (LLD)
- Jeremy Paxman (DLitt)
- Camilla Hampshire (LLD)
- John Pullinger CB (LLD)
- Paul Johnson (LLD)
- Gillian Tett (DLitt)
- Dr Christine Loh Kung-wai OBE, JP (DSc)
- Paul Polman (LLD)
- Edward Barry Farwell MBE (LLD)
- Sally Gunnell OBE (LLD)
- Richard W. Michelmore (DSc)
2015
- Glynis Atherton (LLD)
- The Lord Adonis (LLD)
- Sir John Goldring PC (LLD)
- Ralph Wilcox (LLD)
- Joanne Pavey MBE (LLD)
- Mandy McBain MBE (LLD)
- Richard Atkins (LLD)
- Sir Andrew Witty (LLD)
- Alvin Roth (LLD)
- Graham Cole CBE, FRAeS (LLD)
- Dame Alison Carnwath DBE (LLD)
- Trevor Phillips OBE (DLitt)
- Abi Morgan (DLitt)
- Steve Field CBE, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCGP (DSc)
- Dame Anne Glover DBE (DSc)
- Dame Julia King DBE, FREng (DSc)
- Sir John Bell GBE, FRS (DSc)
- Stephen T. Holgate CBE (DSc)
2014
- Wol Kolade (LLD)
- Teresa Rees CBE, AcSS, FRSA (LLD)
- Tony Rowe OBE (LLD)
- Roy Pike FRSA (LLD)
- Sigrid Kaag (LLD)
- The Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE (LLD)
- The Lord Bilimoria CBE, DL (LLD)
- Kanya King MBE (LLD)
- Tim Hollingsworth (LLD)
- Carl Gilleard OBE (LLD)
- Philip Bostock OBE, DL (LLD)
- Mike Leigh OBE (DLitt)
- Thomas Trevor (DLitt)
- Sir Mark Walport FRS (DSc)
- Dame Julia Slingo DBE (DSc)
2013
- James Jones (DDiv)
- Alexandra Jellicoe (DEng)
- Elizabeth Earland (LLD)
- Ashley Tabor (LLD)
- Ambassador Barry Desker (LLD)
- Sir Brian Burridge KCB, CBE (LLD)
- Russell Seal OBE (LLD)
- Steve Perryman MBE (LLD)
- David Allen, OBE (LLD)
- Timothy C. Niblock (LLD)
- Alexander Beleschenko (DLitt)
- Leo Hickman (DLitt)
2012
- Iain Gray CBE, CEng, FREng, FRAes, FRDE (DEng)
- Stephen Edge (LLD)
- Barry Bateman (LLD)
- Judge Demetrios Hadjihambis (LLD)
- The Baroness Kennedy QC, FRSA (LLD)
- Alan Milburn PC (LLD)
- Bryn Parry OBE (LLD)
- Emma Parry OBE (LLD)
- Sir Michael Pownall KCB (LLD)
- Steve Backshall (DLitt)
- Nik Gowing (DLitt)
- Armando Iannucci (DLitt)
- Cynthia Carroll (DSc)
- Dame Athene Donald DBE, FRS (DSc)
- Russell Hamilton CBE (DSc)
- John Hirst CBE (DSc)
2011
- Si-Chen Lee (DEng)
- Steve Hindley CBE, DL (DEng)
- Sir Peter Lampl OBE (LLD)
- Harriet Lamb CBE (LLD)
- Barbara Frost (LLD)
- Les Halpin (LLD)
- Angela Pedder OBE (LLD)
- Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan (LLD)
- Jim French CBE (LLD)
- Dame Hilary Mantel DBE, FRSL (DLitt)
- Neil Canning (DLitt)
- Andrew D. Hamilton FRS (DSc)
- Dennis Gillings CBE (DSc)
- Sir Peter Rubin (DSc)
2010
- Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi (LLD)
- Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE (LLD)
- Sir John Rose (LLD)
- Sir Eric Dancer KCVO, CBE, JP (LLD)
- Sir Richard Lambert (LLD)
- Sir Ian Botham OBE (LLD)
- The Baroness Young of Old Scone (LLD)
- Shami Chakrabarti CBE (LLD)
- Deborah Meaden (LLD)
- Jane Knight (LLD)
- The Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia LVO (LLD)
- Sharron Davies MBE (LLD)
- Baroness Sue Campbell CBE (LLD)
- Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (DLitt)
- Elaine Goodwin (DLitt)
- Peter Randall-Page (DLitt)
- Kuljit Bhamra MBE (DMus)
- Dame Sally Claire Davies DBE (DSc)
- Lady Ann Redgrave (DSc)
- Dame Alison Richard DBE, DL (DSc)
2000s[]
2009
- Bill Ind (DDiv)
- Clive Lee (DEng)
- Christopher Mullard CBE, DL (LLD)
- Clive Stafford Smith OBE (LLD)
- Richard Ward FRSA (LLD)
- Sir Ian Carruthers OBE (LLD)
- Satish Kumar (LLD)
- Sir Michael Barber (LLD)
- Gerald Sturtridge OBE (LLD)
- Don Boyd (DLitt)
- Karen Armstrong FRSL (DLitt)
- Sir Leszek Borysiewicz DL (DSc)
- Sir Denis Pereira Gray OBE (DSc)
- R. S. M. Ling OBE, FRCS (DSc)
2008
- Sarah Buck (DEng)
- Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (LLD)
- Sir Martin Harris CBE, DL (LLD)
- Mark Thompson(LLD)
- Ian Henderson (LLD)
- Sir David Brewer CMG, JP (LLD)
- Jonathan Dimbleby (LLD)
- Dame Mary Keegan DBE (LLD)
- Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE, RD (LLD)
- Ruth Hawker OBE (LLD)
- Olga Polizzi CBE (LLD)
- Jonathon Porritt CBE (LLD)
- Amartya Sen (LLD)
- Ahdaf Soueif (DLitt)
- Rik Mayall (DLitt)
- Ken Follett (DLitt)
- Sir David Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (DSc)
2007
- Michael Langrish (DDiv)
- Frank Gardner OBE (LLD)
- Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu (LLD)
- Yusuf Islam (LLD)
- Anthony Gibson, OBE (LLD)
- Sir Robert Owen(LLD)
- Sir Peter Job (LLD)
- Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG, OBE (LLD)
- Ray Dillon (LLD)
- Sir Clive Woodward OBE (LLD)
- Richard Hooper CBE (LLD)
- Peter Lord CBE (LLD)
- David Sproxton CBE (LLD)
- Adrian Edmondson (DLitt)
- Jennifer Saunders (DLitt)
- David Eldridge (DLitt)
- Beverley Naidoo (DLitt)
- Michael Rosen (DLitt)
- Posy Simmonds MBE (DLitt)
- Kurt Jackson (DLitt)
- Brian May CBE (DSc)
- The Lord Stern of Brentford (DSc)
- Dame Carol Black DBE, PRCP (DSc)
- The Lord Rees of Ludlow (DSc)
2006
- Sue Barker (LLD)
- Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (LLD)
- Roderick Ross (LLD)
- Sir Anthony Clarke (LLD)
- Alan Cotton (DLitt)
- Peter Ewins (DSc)
- Sir John Beringer (DSc)
- William Wakeham (DSc)
2005
- Jane Henderson (LLD)
- Abdullah Gül (LLD)
- Ben Ainslie (LLD)
- John Allwood (LLD)
- Sir Tom Shebbeare (LLD)
- Admiral Sir Jonathon Band (LLD)
- The Baroness Prashar (LLD)
- Tony Robinson (LLD)
- Stewart Purvis (LLD)
- Jonathan Edwards(LLD)
- Floella Benjamin (DLitt)
- Jane Lapotaire (DLitt)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (DLitt)
- Sir Peter Mansfield (DSc)
- Michael Fish (DSc)
2004
- Sir Ewen Cameron DL, FRICS (LLD)
- Irene Bishop (LLD)
- Ian Powell (LLD)
- The Baroness Uddin (LLD)
- Lord Justice Sedley (LLD)
- Pen Hadow (LLD)
- Michael Caines (LLD)
- Paul Jackson (DLitt)
- Ben Okri (DLitt)
- Michael Morpurgo (DLitt)
- Barbara Jefford (DLitt)
- Dame Julia Higgins (DSc)
- The Lord Winston (DSc)
2003
- Sir Geoffrey Holland (LLD)
- Tanni Grey-Thompson (LLD)
- Dame Suzi Leather (LLD)
- Paul Myners CBE (LLD)
- Anthony Salz (LLD)
- The Lord Wilson of Dinton (LLD)
- Simon Jenkins (DLitt)
- Sir Christopher Ondaatje (DLitt)
- Sir Antony Sher (DLitt)
- Jatinder Verma (DLitt)
- Richard Case (DSc)
- Sir Christopher Evans OBE (DSc)
- Sir John Sulston (DSc)
2002
- Ann Daniels (LLD)
- Norman Hardyman, CB (LLD)
- Bridget Kendall (LLD)
- Christopher Patten CH, PC (LLD)
- Marjorie Scardino (LLD)
- Sir David Walker (LLD)
- The Lord Woolf of Barnes PC (LLD)
- Angela Yeoman OBE, DL (LLD)
- Prince Waleed bin Talal Al Saud (LLD)
- Sir Tim Rice (DLitt)
- Rick Stein (DLitt)
- George Gray CBE, FRS (DSc)
- Timothy Hunt (DSc)
2001
- Rowan Williams (DDiv)
- Queen Rania Al-Abdullah (LLD)
- Sir Peter Davis (LLD)
- Mr Justice Elias (LLD)
- Timothy Smit (LLD)
- Bridget Towle CBE (LLD)
- Mohammed Arkoun (DLitt)
- Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (DLitt)
- Helen Dunmore (DLitt)
- Susan Hampshire (DLitt)
- Seamus Heaney (DLitt)
- Edward Said (DLitt)
- George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld GBE (DLitt)
- Christopher Bruce CBE (DLitt)
- Dame Gillian Weir (DMus)
- Sir Harold Kroto FRS (DSc)
- Jane Plant CBE (DSc)
- Dame Lesley Southgate (DSc)
2000
- Bartholomew I (LLD)
- Lady Sally Greengross (LLD)
- Margaret Lorenz (LLD)
- Peter Sutherland (LLD)
- Joanne K. Rowling OBE (DLitt)
- Sir Nicholas Serota (DLitt)
- Evelyn Glennie DBE (DMus)
- Edward W. Abel CBE (DSc)
- Per-Olaf Astrand (DSc)
- Sir Ghillean Prance (DSc)
- Sir John Taylor (DSc)
1990s[]
1999
- Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly (DDiv)
- The Lord Eames (DDiv)
- The Baroness Brenda Dean (LLD)
- Charles Handy (LLD)
- Christopher Moon (LLD)
- Sir Terry Frost (DLitt)
- Edward Mortimer (DLitt)
- Andrew Motion (DLitt)
- Adrian Noble (DLitt)
- Imogen Cooper (DMus)
- Susan Greenfield (DSc)
- Dame Bridget Ogilvie (DSc)
- Helen Sharman (DSc)
- Sir Crispin Tickell (DSc)
- David Warren Turner (DSc)
- Sir David Weatherall (DSc)
1998
- David Sheppard (DDiv)
- Desmond Tutu (DDiv)
- Noel Warner (DEng)
- The Lord Butler GCB (LLD)
- The Lord Dearing KCB (LLD)
- The Lord Nolan (LLD)
- Lord Justice Phillips (LLD)
- Tadeusz Mazowiecki (LLD)
- The Lord Rothschild (LLD)
- Robert Neil MacGregor (DLitt)
- Alfred Brendel Hon. KBE (DMus)
- John Krebs FRS (DSc)
- Dato' Mohamad Idris Mansor (DSc)
1997
- Sir Edward George (LLD)
- Sir David Tweedie (LLD)
- Lady Mary Holborow JP (LLD)
- The Lord Rix (LLD)
- Joyce Youings (DLitt)
- Bridget Riley CBE (DLitt)
- Hugh Allen (DSc)
- Sir Donald Irvine CBE (DSc)
1996
- Sir David Calcutt QC (LLD)
- Peter Chalk (LLD)
- Dame Stella Rimington (LLD)
- Sir Stephen Tumim (LLD)
- Sir Alan Bowness (DLitt)
- Sir William Stubbs (DLitt)
- T. R. P. Brighouse (DLitt)
- Richard L. Gregory (DSc)
- Samuel E. Jonah (DSc)
- Sir Maurice Laing (DSc)
- Sir Michael Peckham (DSc)
1995
- The Lord Alexander of Weedon QC, FRSA (LLD)
- Nigel Beale (LLD)
- Zoltan P. Dienes (LLD)
- The Lord Morley (LLD)
- Mary Douglas DBE, FBA (DLitt)
- Marina Warner FRSL (DLitt)
- Sir David Harrison CBE (DSc)
- Sir John Knill (DSc)
- Elizabeth J. Yerxa (DSc)
1994
- Trevor Huddleston CR (DDiv)
- Ian Mercer (LLD)
- The Lord Owen (LLD)
- Robert Pennington (LLD)
- Lieutenant General Sir Stewart Pringle (LLD)
- Sir George Christie (DLitt)
- Clive Gronow (DSc)
- Andrew Lang FRS (DSc)
- John Polkinghorne (DSc)
1993
- Robert P. Cohan CBE (DLitt)
- Michael Screech (DLitt)
- Mary Wesley (DLitt)
- Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi (DLitt)
- Sándor Végh Hon. CBE (DMus)
- Sir John Banham (DSc)
- Sir John Cullen (DSc)
- David Rees FRS (DSc)
- Robert Wilson (DSc)
1992
- Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss DBE, PC (LLD)
- James Hetherington CBE (LLD)
- Christopher Pope TD, JP, DL (LLD)
- R. K. L. Hill (LLD)
- Peter Ackroyd (DLitt)
- Sir Anthony Parsons GCMG, MVO, MC (DLitt)
- Frank Harary (DSc)
- F. Gordon A. Stone CBE, FRS (DSc)
1991
- Canon John Thurmer (DDiv)
- Sir Richard Acland (LLD)
- The Lord Templeman MBE (LLD)
- Gerald Aylmer (DLitt)
- Lionel Dakers CBE (DMus)
- Michael Berry (DSc)
- Sheila Cassidy (DSc)
- Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yakovlev (DSc)
1990
- Michael Foot MP (LLD)
- Sir Brinsley Ford CBE (LLD)
- Eurfron Gwynne Jones (LLD)
- Halfdan Mahler (LLD) (DLitt)
- Jean-François Botrel (DLitt)
- David Cornwell (DLitt)
- Joaquin Rodrigo (DMus)
- Peter Bradshaw (DSc)
- Lady Anne Palmer (DSc)
- Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick DBE (DSc)
1980s[]
1989
- Sir Nicholas Goodison (LLD)
- Sir John Smith CBE (LLD)
- Baroness Seear (LLD)
- Sylvia Kantaris (DLitt)
- Wayne Sleep (DLitt)
- John Edgar Stevens CBE (DMus)
- Brother Adam OBE (DSc)
- Sir , CBE (DSc)
- Sir John Harvey-Jones MBE (DSc)
1988
- Sir Antony Acland (LLD)
- W. G. Daw, OBE (LLD)
- J. L. Smeall (LLD)
- Glenda Jackson CBE (DLitt)
- Dame Elisabeth Frink (DLitt)
- F. W. Walbank CBE (DLitt)
- Daphne Jackson (DSc)
- J. E. Lovelock (DSc)
- F. J. M. Laver, CBE (DSc)
1987
- Frank Gillard CBE (LLD)
- C. D. Pike, OBE (LLD)
- Baroness Warnock OBE (DLitt)
- Richard Stanton-Jones (DSc)
- Abdus Salam (DSc)
- D. R. Barber (MSc)
1986
- Sir Robin Day OBE (LLD)
- Kenneth Rowe, MBE (LLD)
- John Mortimer CBE, QC (LLD)
- Fred L Harris, OBE (DLitt)
- Vivian Richards (DLitt)
- Ewan MacColl (DLitt)
- Jane Glover (DMus)
- Sir David Smith (DSc)
1985
- Sir Gordon Slynn (LLD)
- Sir Michael Hordern CBE (DLitt)
- Aileen, Lady Fox (DLitt)
- Sir John Gray (DSc)
- Sir Austin Pearce CBE (DSc)
- Harry Kay CBE (DSc)
1984
- Sheila Browne (LLD)
- Mr Justice Park (LLD)
- William Trevor CBE (DLitt)
- R. Aris (DSc)
- K. Ellitsgaard Rasmussen (DSc)
- Sir Alan Harris (DSc)
- Gene Kemp (MA)
1983
- Sir Jean-Pierre Warner (LLD)
- Hugh Greenwood OBE (LLD)
- John Fowles (DLitt)
- F. J. Fisher (DLitt)
- B. D. Josephson (DSc)
1982
- The Lord Young of Dartington (LLD)
- Sir CBE (LLD)
- M. G. Brock CBE (DLitt)
- Patrick Heron CBE (DLitt)
- Ted Hughes OM, OBE (DLitt)
- Sir John Kendrew CBE (DSc)
- Sir David Phillips (DSc)
- L. L. Iversen (DSc)
- Jean Boxall (MA)
1981
- R. J. S. Hookway (LLD)
- Sir CBE, MC (LLD)
- Frank Barlow CBE (DLitt)
- Jack Clemo (DLitt)
- Robert Niklaus (DLitt)
- P. G. Burke (DSc)
- W. K. Hayman (DSc)
- H. N. Rydon (DSc)
- A. G. Crouch (MSc)
1980
- The Viscount Boyd of Merton PC, CH, DL (LLD)
- Sir John Palmer (LLD)
- R. W. Turner (LLD)
- The Baroness Ryder of Warsaw CMG, OBE (LLD)
- Benjamin Luxon CBE (DMus)
- Sir Edward Abraham CBE (DSc)
- Stella M. Turk (MSc)
1970s[]
1979
- J. C. Alderson CBE, QPM (LLD)
- Colonel Sir John Carew Pole DSO, TD, JP (LLD)
- Christopher Hill (DLitt)
- John Richard Lill (DMus)
- G. Higman (DSc)
- Mollie Clarke OBE (MA)
1978
- Lord Mackenzie Stuart (LLD)
- Kingman Brewster (LLD)
- Alfred K. Hamilton Jenkin (DLitt)
- G. C. Ainsworth (DSc)
- R. J. Keast (MA)
1977
- General Sir John Hackett GCB, CBE, DSO, MC (LLD)
- H. B. Garland JP (DLitt)
- Charles S. Causley CBE (DLitt)
- Robert Oxton Bolt CBE (DLitt)
- Antony Hewish (DSc)
- P. D. Mitchell (DSc)
1976
- The Lord Denning (LLD)
- R. C. Tress CBE (LLD)
- Sir David Willcocks CBE, MC (DMus)
- Sir Eric Denton CBE (DSc)
- Constance R. Henson MBE (MA)
1975
- M. Robert Lecourt (LLD)
- P. J. V. D. Balsdon (DLitt)
- René Marache (DLitt)
- Michael Oakeshott (DLitt)
- Sir Kingsley Dunham (DSc)
- Sir Rex Richards (DSc)
1974
- Colonel J. E. Palmer CBE, TD, DL (LLD)
- Jeremy Thorpe (LLD)
- David Douglas (DLitt)
- W. G. Hoskins CBE (DLitt)
- Dame L. H. N. Cooper DBE (DSc)
- H. M. Stanley (DSc)
- Sir Rodney Smith (DSc)
- Vera Lloyd (MA)
1973
- Canon G. R. Dunstan CBE (DDiv)
- Marcus Knight (LLD)
- Sir John Llewellyn KCMG (LLD)
- C. A. Ralegh Radford (DLitt)
- Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle KBE, OM, CB (DSc)
- Norman Lyne (MA)
1972
- Dr Margaret Jackson JP (LLD)
- Judge Pratt (LLD)
- L. K. Elmhirst (DLitt)
- Sir Raymond Firth (DLitt)
- C. T. Ingold CMG (DSc)
- Andrew Stratton (DSc)
1971
- W. A. E. Westall (DDiv)
- Sir Jack Hayward (LLD)
- The Lord Widgery PC, OBE, TD (LLD)
- Sir John Betjeman CBE (DLitt)
- Dame Frances Yates DBE (DLitt)
- Sir Frederick Dainton (DSc)
- J. A. Church (MA)
1970
- Sir Kenneth Wheare CMG (LLD)
- G. E. Fussell (DLitt)
- Canon J. B. Phillips (DLitt)
- Malcolm Arnold CBE (DMus)
- P. H. Kuenen (DSc)
- Sir (DSc)
1960s[]
1969
- H. Freville (LLD)
- The Lord Roborough JP (LLD)
- J. Whiteside, OBE (LLD)
- Sir Alexander Cairncross KCMG (LLD)
- Imogen Holst CBE (DLitt)
- H. L. Beales (DLitt)
- Dame Kathleen Kenyon DBE (DLitt)
- B. F. Skinner (DSc)
- Sir Eric Eastwood CBE (DSc)
- Sir Peter Medawar CH, KBE (DSc)
1968
- The Lord Caradon PC, GCMG, KCVO, OBE (LLD)
- A. S. Neill (LLD)
- Sir Martin Davies CBE (DLitt)
- V. H. Galbraith (DLitt)
- The Lord Holford (DLitt)
- G. Wilson Knight CBE (DLitt)
- D. C. Hodgkin OM (DSc)
- Sir Eric Smith CBE (DSc)
- E. A. Paddon (MA)
- L. M. Tate OBE (MSc)
1967
- Sir James Cook (LLD)
1966
- Henri Le Moal (LLD)
- Sir Leslie Scarman OBE (LLD)
- Cleanth Brooks (DLitt)
- Sir Frank Francis KCB (DLitt)
- Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (DLitt)
- The Lord Blackett CH (DSc)
- William Keble Martin (DSc)
- Margaret Digby OBE (MA)
1965
- Sir CBE, JP (LLD)
- Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull GCB, DSO (LLD)
- Marcel Bataillon (DLitt)
- Herbert Dieckmann (DLitt)
- Cecil Day Lewis CBE (DLitt)
- Sir Dudley Stamp CBE (DSc)
- Sir Patrick Linstead CBE (DSc)
- Gerald Whitmarsh CBE (MA)
1964
None
1963
- Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst (LLD)
- The Lord Helsby GCB, KBE (LLD)
- Sir Peter Scott CH, CBE, DSC (LLD)
- Sir Henry Slesser PC, JP (LLD)
- Sydney Chapman (DSc)
- Professor A. V. Hill CH, OBE (DSc)
1962
- A. P. Steele-Perkins MC (LLD)
1961
- Theodor Heuss (LLD)
- Sir Paul Sinker KCMG, CB (LLD)
- Bernard Leach CBE (DLitt)
- Agatha Christie DBE (DLitt)
- Sir William Hodge (DSc)
1960
- C. J. Fuller (LLD)
- B. G. Lampard-Vachell CBE, JP (LLD)
- Sir David Hughes Parry QC (LLD)
- Carl Dolmetsch CBE (DLitt)
- The Lord Robbins CH, CB (DLitt)
- A. L. Rowse (DLitt)
- Enid Starkie CBE (DLitt)
- Sir Frederick Russell CBE (DSc)
- The Lord Todd (DSc)
1950s[]
1959
- Sayed Mekki Abbas (LLD)
- The Viscount Amery KG, PC, GCMG, TD, DL (LLD)
- Sir Arthur Reed JP (LLD)
- John Hay Whitney CBE (LLD)
- Colonel Sidney John Worsley DSO, MC, TD (LLD)
- The Dowager Viscountess Astor CH (LLD)
- Isaac Foot JP (DLitt)
- Paul Henry (DLitt)
- Ernest Newman (DLitt)
- Sir Harry Melville KCB (DSc)
1958
None
1957
- Sir John Daw JP (LLD)
- E. Vincent Harris OBE (LLD)
- W. H. Lewis (LLD)
- A. K. Woodbridge (MA)
1956
- The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire GCVO, CBE (LLD)
- Colonel The Earl Fortescue KG, MC (LLD)
- Sir Hector Hetherington GBE, DL (LLD)
- J. L. Morill (LLD)
- The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres KT, GBE (DLitt)
- John Murray (DLitt)
- The Marquess of Salisbury KG (DLitt)
- Sir James Chadwick (DSc)
References[]
- ^ "Honorary graduates". University of Exeter. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- People associated with the University of Exeter
- Lists of honorary degree recipients