Honorary degrees

Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Chancellor of the University (1962)  

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1965) 

Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly, GBE, KCB, DSO (1965) 

Sir Barnett Stross, Hon DSc (1965) 

Mr Leslie Farrer-Brown, Hon DSc​ (1965) 

Mr John Stephen Ramage, Hon MA (1965) 

David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, CBE, The Ambassador of the United States of America (1966) 

Baron Murray of Newhaven, KCB, Kt (1966) 

Professor John George Smith, OBE (1966) 

Dame Ciceley Veronica Wedgwood, OM, DBE (1966) 

Professor Sir William Mansfield Cooper, Kt (1967) 

The Most Revd and Rt Hon Arthur Michael Ramsey PC, Archbishop of Canterbury (1967) 

Harold McCarter Taylor, CBE (1968) 

Sir John Barbirolli, Kt, CH (1969) 

Dame Lucy Stuart Sutherland, DBE (1969) 

John William Blake (1971) 

Sir Charles Wheeler, KCVO, CBE (1971) 

Sir James Frederick Mountford, Kt (1972) 

Professor Gilbert Ryle (1972) 

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1973) 

Professor Bruce Williams (1973) 

The Right Revd Arthur S. Reeve (1975) 

The Most Revd George Patrick Dwyer, Archbishop of Birmingham (1979) 

Charles Tomlinson (1981) 

The Most Revd and Rt HonRobert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, MC, PC, Archbishop of Canterbury (1981) 

Professor William Alexander Campbell Stewart, DL (1981) 

George Ewart Evans (1983) 

Sir Roy Strong, Kt (1984) 

John B. Wain (1985) 

Garret FitzGerald,  
Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (1986) 

Alan Ayckbourn, CBE (1987) 

Glenda Jackson (1987) 

Frederick B. Stitt (1987) 

Sir Brian Urquhart, MBE (1987) 

Margaret Drabble, CBE (1988) 

Paul Hamlyn (1988) 

The Very Revd John Harley Lang, Dean of Lichfield (1988) 

Roald Dahl (1988) 

Dame Elisabeth Frink, CBE, RA (1989) 

Roderick Peter Hackney (1989) 

Baron Young of Dartington (1991) 

Baron Gibson of Penn’s Rocks (1992) 

Professor Yury M. Lotman (1992) 

Dame Kathleen Raven, DBE (1992) 

Geoffrey A. Godden (1992) 

Michael Ronald Emerson (1993) 

Brian Redhead (1993) 

Maurice J. Procter (1993) 

Elizabeth A. L. Forgan (1994) 

Gavin H. Laird, CBE (1994) 

Nicholas A. Serota (1994) 

Stuart R. Lyons, CBE (1994) 

Professor Bernard A. O. Williams (1995) 

Richard Hoggart (1995) 

Margaret Anne Spurr (1995) 

Professor Stuart M. Hall (1995) 

Sir J. Moray Stewart, KCB (1995) 

Richard C. Mottram (1996) 

John M. M. Vereker, CB (1997) 

Christopher C. Taylor (1997) 

Professor William R. Brock (1998) 

Roy Fisher (1999) 

Sir Nigel Hawthorne, CBE (1999) 

Professor David K. Adams, OBE (2000) 

Martin J. Dent, OBE (2000) 

Jack Emery (2000) 

Professor Ronald J. Frankenberg (2000) 

David Pownall (2000) 

Professor Joan Stringer (2001) 

Graham Carleton Greene, CBE (2002) 

Ronald Harwood, CBE (2002) 

Baron Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE (2002) 

Carol Ann Duffy, CBE (2003) 

Professor Timothy R. P. Brighouse (2003) 

David A. Edmonds, CBE (2004) 

Baroness Greengross, OBE (2004) 

Sir Jeffrey James, KBE, CMG (2005) 

Professor Margaret Spufford, OBE, LittD, FBA (2005) 

Martha Kearney (2007) 

Professor Claude Rawson (2007) 

Nick Partridge, OBE (2008) 

Professor Richard Sennett (2008) 

Ken Loach (2009) 

Dame Jo Williams, DBE, DL (2009) 

Professor Sir David Watson, MA, PhD (2010) 

Professor Paul Wiles, CB (2010) 

Professor Richard Blackett (2011) 

Professor Dame Janet Finch, DBE, DL (2011) 

Jill Rezzano (2013) 

Professor Lisa Jardine, CBE (2014) 

Paul Abbott (2015) 

Professor Nick Foskett,  
MA, PhD, PGCE, FRGS, FRSA (2016) 

Professor Anne Power, CBE (2016) 

Dr Nawal Al–Hosany (2018) 

Professor David Croisdale-Appleby OBE (2018) 

Lynn Saunders OBE (2018) 

Professor Steve Jackson (2019) 

Pragna Patel (2019) 

Fiona Wallace (2022) 

Charlotte Williams, OBE (2022) 

Professor Dame Rachel Griffith (2022) 

Theresa Heskins (2022) 

Carry Somers (2022) 

Hon Sir Leslie George Scarman, Kt, OBE (1972) 

The Rt Hon Viscount Tonypandy    (1984) 

Sir Robin Day (1988) 

His Grace the Duke of Westminster (1990) 

Sir Denis Forman, OBE (1990) 

His Eminence Cardinal Basil Hume, 
 Archbishop of Westminster (1990) 

The Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, PC (1991) 

Sir Roy Griffiths (1991) 

Dato Seri S. Samy Vellu (1991) 

Sir Clifford Boulton, KCB (1993) 

Baron Alexander of Weedon, QC (1993) 

Helena A. Kennedy, QC (1994) 

Michael Mansfield, QC (1995) 

His Honour Sir Stephen Tumim (1996) 

Baron Weinstock of Bowden (1997) 

Professor Margaret Stacey (1998) 

Bernard Price, CBE (2001) 

Donald R. Harris (2003) 

Genaral Sir David J. Ramsbotham, GCB, CBE (2004) 

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Kay (2005) 

Fiona Woolf, CBE (2008) 

Professor Dame Hazel Genn, DBE, QC (2010) 

Sir Peter Coulson (2012) 

Fatou Bensouda (2015) 

Michael Todd QC (2015) 

L.Stephanie Boyce (2022) 

Sir Michael Tippett, OM, CH, CBE (1986) 

Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1991) 

Humphrey Lyttelton (1992) 

Sir George Christie (1993) 

Elgar Howarth (1995) 

Sir John Drummond, CBE (1998) 

Professor Peter Dickinson (1999) 

Yan Pascal Tortelier (2000) 

Sir Colin Davis, CBE (2002) 

Jane Manning, OBE (2004) 

Eran Cutliffe, OBE (2022) 

Leslie Farrer-Brown, CBE, JP (1965) 

Sir Alfred George Beech Owen, Kt, CBE (1965) 

Sir Barnett Stross, Kt, MP (1965) 

Baron Nelson of Stafford (1967) 

John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE (1968) 

Francis Arthur Vick, OBE (1972) 

Baron Kearton of Whitchurch (1973) 

Denys Wainwright (1975) 

Professor Maurice Stacey, CBE, FRS (1977 

Professor Christian de Duve (1982) 

Professor David John Edward Ingram (1983) 

Professor Sir Jack Lewis, FRS (1984) 

Sir Andrew Huxley, FRS (1985) 

Professor A. R. Gemmell, OBE (1986) 

Dr Harry Davis Law (1986) 

Professor Sir Geoffrey Allen, FRS (1986) 

Sir David Attenborough, CBE, FRS (1986) 

Max Sanderson (1986) 

Professor Sir Francis Graham Smith, FRS (1987) 

Sir John Harvey-Jones, MBE (1989) 

Professor David Smith, FRS (1990) 

Professor Boris K. Vainshtein (1992) 

Peter J. Walker, OBE (1992) 

Professor William Duncan Paterson Stewart, FRS (1993) 

Professor Sir David Weatherall, FRS (1993) 

Professor Robert Joseph Paton Williams, FRS (1993) 

Professor Sir Ronald Mason, KCB, FRS (1993) 

Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS (1994) 

John Ravenscroft (1994) 

Patrick A. C. Moore, CBE (1994) 

Professor Sir Martin Rees (1995) 

Professor Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub (1995) 

Paul R. Williams (1996) 

The Rt Hon The Earl of Harrowby, TD (1996) 

Professor Yves Petroff (1997) 

Professor Richard L. Gregory, CBE (1999) 

Sir Donald Acheson (2000) 

Professor Sandra Dawson (2000) 

Professor Edward C. Hutchinson (2000) 

Geoffrey Manning (2000) 

Professor Sir Ghillean Prance (2000) 

Russell Seal (2000) 

Professor Michael Goodchild (2001) 

Alan A. Savage (2001) 

Professor Dame Lesley Southgate (2002) 

Professor Roger Green (2004) 

Sir Robert David Hugh Boyd (2005) 

Professor Jane Plant, CBE (2005) 

Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, CBE (2005) 

Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, CBE (2005) 

Professor Dame Julia Higgins, DBE, FRA, FREng (2006) 

Professor Sir Keith Peters, KT, FRS, PMedSci (2006) 

Professor Susan Hill, OBE (2007) 

Professor Geoffrey Boulton, OBE, FRS (2007) 

Lord Turnberg (2008) 

Professor Sir Alex Markham (2009) 

Dame Christine Beasley, DBE (2010) 

Professor Sir David King, FRS (2010) 

Professor Dame Sally Davies, DBE (2011) 

Professor Stephen Field (2011) 

Professor Alan Silman (2012) 

Professor John Loughhead, BSc, MSc, DIC, Cen, FIMechE, FIET, FCGI, FRSA, FREng (2013) 

Sir Mark Walport, FRS Kt, FRCPath, FMedSci (2013) 

Professor Richard Lilford, PhD, FRCOG, FRCP, FFPH (2014) 

Professor Pradeep Mathur, PhD (2014) 

Professor Paul Ekins, OBE (2015) 

Ian Redmond OBE (2018) 

David S Pearson MBE (2019) 

Professor Jaqueline McGlade FLS, FRSA (2019) 

Nataliey Bitature BA (Hons), MSc (2020) 

Neil Carr, OBE (2022) 

Emma Philpott, MBE (2022) 

Professor Emily Shuckburgh, OBE 2022) 

Baron Fulton of Falmer, Kt (1972) 

The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins, PC (1977) 

Bernard Arthur Shaw (1977) 

Sir Claus Moser, KCB, CBE (1979) 

Kingman Brewster, The Ambassador of the United States of America (1979) 

The Rt Hon Jack Ashley, CH, PC, MP (1981) 

John Francis Nicholas Hodgkinson, OBE (1983) 

The Revd Gordon E. Barritt, OBE (1985) 

The Rt Hon The Lord Rochester, DL (1986) 

Anthony Bamford, DL (1988) 

Clifford Isaac Morgan, CVO, OBE (1989) 

David Harrison, CBE (1992) 

The Right Revd Keith N. Sutton, Lord Bishop of Lichfield (1992) 

Peter Laslett, FBA (1993) 

Baroness Masham of Ilton (1993) 

Professor Brian E. F. Fender, CMG (1996) 

Joseph Bamford (2000) 

Baron Rothschild (2000) 

Rodney Bickerstaffe (2001) 

The Rt Hon Christopher H. Patten, CH (2002) 

Rita M. Donaghy, OBE (2004) 

The Rt Hon The Lord Stafford, DL, ARAgS (2005) 

Anthony F. Wood (2006) 

Gordon Banks, OBE (2006) 

Paul Atterbury (2006) 

John Giffard, CBE, DL (2006) 

Professor Sir Martin Harris, CBE, DL (2007) 

The Right Revd Jonathan Gledhill (2007) 

Mo Chaudry (2008) 

David Cooney (2009) 

Eric Hassall, CBE, FRICS, FIMMM, FGS, DSc (2009) 

James Hawley (2009) 

Gaye Blake-Roberts, FMA, FRSA (2010) 

Peter Coates (2011) 

Alan Hatton-Yeo (2012) 

Emma Bridgewater (2012) 

Matthew Rice (2012) 

Bryan Carnes (2012) 

Baroness Williams of Crosby (2012) 

Karen Middleton, CBE (2013) 

Anna Rose Watkins, MBE (2013) 

Deborah Meaden (2013) 

Tony Elliott (2013) 

Ian Dudson, CBE (2013) 

Jamie Aitchison (2014) 

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (2014) 

Keith Harrison (2014) 

Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, CBE (2014) 

Frances O’Grady (2014) 

Dr Maggie Atkinson (2015) 

Peter Bowker (2015) 

Denise Coates, CBE (2015) 

Ruth Hunt (2015) 

Lesley Mercer (2015) 

Malcolm D. Peckham, JP BA, CertEd, Dip.Ed.Admin, FRSA (2015) 

Neil Smith (2015) 

Lord Melvyn Bragg, FRSL, FBA, FRS (2016) 

Stephen Cutts, BA, PGCE, EMBA (2016) 

Dr Malcolm Clarke, BA, PhD, FRSA, MIC (2016) 

Joyce D’Silva, MA, D.Litt. (Hon) (2017) 

Dr Michael Fisher, MBChB, DCH, FRCGP (2017) 

Professor Datuk Dr Asma Ismail, PhD (2017) 

Ros Kerslake, OBE (2017) 

Dr Catherine Raines, BPharm, PhD, FRSA (2017) 

Mr David Emley, BEM (2018) 

Sinéad Butters MBE (2018) 

Ralph Findlay BSc(Hons), FCA, MCT(Dip) (2019) 

Dr Rebecca Murray PhD (2019) 

Rachel Shenton (2019) 

Carol Shanahan, OBE (2022) 

James Francis Lindsay (2022) 

Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE (2022) 

John Steven Ramage (1965) 

Harry Taylor, OBE (1965) 

Gladys Harris (1966) 

Peter Cheeseman (1967) 

William Edwin Dunn, OBE (1968) 

Albert Bernard Hollowood (1968) 

Arthur Percival Walker (1968) 

George Leonard Barber, JP (1971) 

Sir Hubert Newton, Kt (1971) 

Ernest J. D. Warrillow, MBE (1979) 

James Tynan Gould (1981) 

R. Spencer C. Copeland (1987) 

The Lindsay String Quartet (Messrs P. Cropper, R. Birks, R. Bigley, B. Gregor-Smith) (1986) 

May Walley (1997) 

Charles William Turner (1969) 

Henry John Wain (1973) 

Anthony G. Hayek, DL (1975) 

Eric S. Edees (1977) 

Charles G. Strasser (1979) 

St John Robinson (1997) 

Reginald George Haggar (1972) 

Guy Shipway Pearce (1972) 

Sir Arthur Bryan, Kt (1977) 

Sir David Barritt, Kt (1981) 

Richard John Bailey, CBE (1983) 

David Gibson (1984) 

Geoffrey N. Bell (1985) 

Doris Robinson, CBE, JP (1986) 

J. Alec Done (1986) 

John G. Hall (1986) 

Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1987) 

Frederick Arthur Cholerton, CBE (1988) 

Roger Edward Whitfield, DL (1988) 

Elsie Ashley, OBE (1989) 

Joan Levitt (1989) 

Stanley O. Stewart (1990) 

Peter E. J. Held (1991) 

Charles H. Kelly, CBE (1991) 

James Moffat (1993) 

Beryl I. Deane (1994) 

Marion H. Bailey (1996) 

Owen Powell (1996) 

Douglas Brown (1998) 

Gerald Tams (1999) 

Mary Blakeman (1999) 

Geoffrey C. Marks (2003) 

Susan Williams-Ellis (2003) 

Traudi Plesch, MBE (2004) 

Keith Perrin (2005) 

John Woodcock (2007) 

Mike Reynolds (2011) 

Neil Baldwin (2013) 

Nigel Johnson (2014) 

Daniel Flynn (2016) 

Anthony J. G. Berry, MBE, SB.St.J, JP (2017) 

Joseph Clarke, MBE (2017) 

Ms Rebecca Bryant, MBA, BA (Hons), MIFireE Hon, DPP (2018) 

Mike Jackson (2018) 

(Awarded by the University College of North Staffordshire) The Revd Thomas Horwood (1954) 

Arthur Percival Walker (1958)