List of honorary graduates of the University of Exeter

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Key
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

2017

2016

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

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

2010

2000s[]

2009

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

2005

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

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

1995

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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[]

  1. ^ "Honorary graduates". University of Exeter. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
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