List of honorary graduates of the University of Leeds

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

2010s

2019[2]

2018[3]

2017[4]

2016[5]

2015[6]

2014[7]

2013

2012

2011

2010[8]

2000s

Sunil Mittal, honoured in 2009

2009

2008

Albert Fert, honoured in 2008

2007

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

2006

Sir David Cox, honoured in 2005

2005

Sir Ian McKellen CH, CBE, honoured in 2004

2004

Dame Judi Dench CH, DBE, FRSA, honoured in 2002

2003

2002

2001

2000

1990s

Jeremy Paxman, honoured in 1999

1999

1998

  • No honors conferred in this academic year.

1997

The Rt. Hon. 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

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

Viscount Hailsham, honoured in 1982

1981

1980

1970s

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

1969

  • Professor Philip Rowland Allison (DSc)
  • Professor Damaso Alonso (DLitt)
  • Frank Beckwith (MPhil)
  • The Hon. Sir Maurice (Richard) Bridgeman, K.B.E. (LLD)
  • Sir Derman (Guy) Christopherson (LLD)
  • James Richard Gregson (MA)
  • Donald Hopewell (LLD)
  • Professor Sir Fred Hoyle (DSc)
  • Sir Bernard Kenyon (LLD) Walter Pagel (LLD)
  • Dowager Marchioness of Reading (LLD)
  • Elizabeth Grace Watts (LLD)

1968

  • Douglas Crockatt (LLD)
  • Marie Hartley (MA)
  • Harold Himsworth (DSc)
  • Archer John Porter Martin (DSc)
  • Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol (LLD)
  • Nikolaus Pevsner (DLitt)
  • Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (LLD)
  • Eric Treacy (LLD)
  • Lady Dorothy Tunbridge (MA)
  • Sir Ernest George Woodroofe (LLD)

1967

  • David William Currie (DSc)
  • Sir Frank Francis (DLitt)
  • King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (LLD)
  • Lord Jackson of Burnley (LLD)
  • Sir Henry Jones (LLD)
  • David Henry Lewis (MSc)
  • Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (LLD)
  • John Primatt Redcliffe Maud (LLD)
  • Robert Mayer (LLD)
  • Irene McAdam (MA)
  • Mary Moorman (DLitt)
  • Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (LLD)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (DLitt)
  • Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (DSc)
  • Julius Adams Stratton (LLD)
  • U. Thant (LLD)
  • Emeritus Professor Henry Cherry Versey (LLD)
  • Joshua Samuel Alderman Walsh (LLD)
  • Sir William Arthington Worsley (LLD)
  • Sir Norman Wright (LLD)

1966

  • Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Hill Ambler (LLD)
  • David Curie (MSc)
  • Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont (LLD)
  • Sir Frank Kearton (LLD)
  • HRH Duchess of Kent (LLD)
  • Emeritus Professor Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell (DSc)
  • Sir Alexander Oppenheim (LLD)
  • Lord Stewart of Fulham (LLD)
  • Mr Justice Geoffrey De Paiva Veale (LLD)
  • Dame Fanny Waterman (MA)

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

  • Elsa M. Carroll (MA)
  • Harry Dawson (MA)
  • Margaretha Albertina Maria Klompe (LLD)
  • Sir Hans Krebs (DSc)
  • Sir Simon Marks (LLD)
  • Sir Harry Melville (DSc)
  • Rt. Rev. John Moorman (DLitt)
  • Baron Morris of Grasmere (LLD)
  • W.T. Oliver (MA)
  • A.D. Waley (DLitt)
  • Leslie G Wilson (LLD)

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

1959

  • Professor Alfred Ewert (DLitt)
  • Sir Edward Hale (LLD)
  • Earl of Harewood (LLD)
  • Sir George Raymond Hinchcliffe (LLD)
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (DSc)
  • Sir Rudolph Peters (DSc)
  • Jonas Edward Salk (DSc)
  • Sir Phillip Manderson Sherlock (LLD)
  • Sir Harold Smith (LLD)
  • Norma Sykes (DLitt)

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

  • Alderman/Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd (LLD)
  • Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (DSc)
  • James Bryant Conant (LLD)
  • Sir George Dyson (LLD)
  • James Digby Firth (MA)
  • Walter Freudenberg (DSc)
  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (LLD)
  • The Rt. Rev. Arthur Reeve (DD)
  • Professor Sir Ian Richmond (DLitt)
  • Edward Rickerby (MA)
  • Sir Oliver Graham Sutton (DSc)

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

  • Alderman David Beevers (LLD)
  • Viscountess Margaret Boyne (LLD)
  • Kathleen Chambers (LLD)
  • The Rt. Rev. George Armitage Chase (DD)
  • Lady Helen Cynthia Colville (LLD)
  • Dame Julia Myra Hess (LLD)
  • Sir Hubert Houldsworth (LLD)
  • Sir John Huggins (LLD)
  • John James Ilett (MA)
  • Gertrude Illingworth (MA)
  • James Laybourn (MA)
  • Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd (LLD)
  • Thomas Lodge (DLitt)
  • The Rt. Hon. Lawrence Lumley (LLD)
  • Sir George Martin (LLD)
  • John Morrell (LLD)
  • The Rt. Hon. Angela Pery (LLD)
  • Brigadier James Noel Tetley (LLD)

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

1949

  • Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (DLitt)
  • Professor James Couper Brash (DSc)
  • Sir James Chadwick (DSc)
  • General Dwight David Eisenhower (LLD)
  • Arnold Trevor Green (DSc)
  • Bernard Jones (LLD)
  • Dame Lillian Penson (LLD)
  • Emile Victor Rieu (DLitt)

1948

  • Lewis William Douglas (LLD)
  • Sir Percival Hartley (DSc)
  • Rev. William Hughes (DD)
  • Lord MacKintosh of Halifax (LLD)
  • Dame Edith Sitwell (DLitt)
  • Sir Bracewell Smith (LLD)
  • Terry Thomas (LLD)

1947

  • Charles Frederick Ratcliffe Brotherton (LLD)
  • Professor Henry Buckley Charlton (DLitt)
  • Andrew Browne Cunningham (LLD)
  • Lt. General Sir William George Dobbie (LLD)
  • Wilfred Joseph Halliday (PhD)
  • Thomas Edmund Harvey (LLD)
  • Lt. Col. Sir John Alexander Dunnington- Jefferson (LLD)
  • Henry Mahony (PhD)
  • Professor Sigurdur Nordal (DLitt)
  • Michael Polanyi (DSc)
  • William Goodwin Senior (PhD)
  • Croydon Whittaker (DSc)

1946

  • Herbert Vere Evatt (LLD)
  • The Viscount Leathers (LLD)
  • Sir Frederick Pile (LLD)
  • Lord (William) Slim (LLD)
  • Arthur Tedder (LLD)
  • Lord Waverley (LLD)

1945

1944

1943

  • Col. Hugh Delabere Bousfield (LLD)
  • Sir Charles Travis Clay (DLitt)
  • Edward Victor Evans (DSc)
  • Rev. Cyril Forester Garbett (DD)
  • Margaret Storm Jameson (DLitt)
  • Henry Raper (LLD)

1942

  • John Winant (LLD)

1941

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

1930s

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

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)[13]
  • 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

1919

1917

Herbert Austin Fricker
  • Herbert Austin Fricker (MA)

1915

  • David Forsyth (LLD)
  • Rev. Charles Hargrove (DLitt)
  • Thomas Nelson (MSc)
  • William Roebuck (MSc)
  • Thomas Sheppard (MSc)
  • John William Taylor (MSc)
  • Harold Wager (DSc)
  • Rev. Philip Wicksteed (DLitt)
  • John Grimshaw Wilkinson (MSc)
  • Thomas Woodhead (MSc)

1914

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

1912

  • Charles Carpenter (DSc)
  • Arthur Cooper (LLD)
  • Anna Paulina Eddison (LLD)
  • Sir William Edward Garforth (LLD)
  • Adolph Greiner (DSc)
  • Sir Robert Hadfield (DSc)
  • Rev. William Keeling (LLD)
  • Thomas Newbigging (DSc)
  • Sir Swire Smith (LLD)
  • Kommerzienrat Friedrich Springorum (DSc)
  • John Stead (DSc)
  • Sir Corbert Woodall (DSc)

1910

1900s

1909

1907

1906

1904

Sources

  • "Honorary graduates 1904 - 2016". University of Leeds.

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