Honorary Degrees
Lancaster University has been awarding Honorary Degrees since it was founded in 1964.
Honorary Degrees are awarded to people with a recognised international standing in their field, and to those who have given special service in connection with the University or its regions.
Honorary Graduates
1960s |
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Sir Alfred Bates |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1964 |
Katharine Fletcher |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1964 |
Sir Noel Hall |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1964 |
Field Marshall William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1964 |
James Harold Wilson, The Rt Hon Lord Wilson of Rievaulx |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1964 |
Professor Sir Russell Ackhoff |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1967 |
The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Donald Coggan |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1967 |
Professor Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1967 |
The Rt Hon Lord Morris of Grasmere |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1967 |
Arthur Peel, 2nd Earl Peel |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1967 |
The Rt Hon Lord Stokes of Leyland |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1967 |
Professor Harold Godwin |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1968 |
Professor Sir Neville Mott |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1968 |
Professor Ronald Norrish |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1968 |
Professor Ota Sik |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1968 |
1970s |
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Sir Arthur Bliss |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1970 |
Mark Cameron |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1970 |
Gabriel Epstein |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1970 |
Professor William Mackenzie |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1970 |
The Rt Hon George Woodcock |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1970 |
Professor Robert Zaehner |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1970 |
Jean-Louis Barrault |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1972 |
Most Revd Trevor Huddleston |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1972 |
Professor Cornelius Lanczos |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1972 |
Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1972 |
Sir Peter Ustinov CBE |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1972 |
John Drinkall |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1974 |
John Gee |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1974 |
Harry Gregson |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1974 |
Sir Maurice Kendall |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1974 |
Arnold Lindley |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1974 |
Sir Patrick Moore CBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1974 |
Frederick Turner |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1974 |
Professor Mircea Eliade |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1975 |
Witold Lutoslawski |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1975 |
HIH Prince Takafuto Mikasa |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1975 |
Revd Professor Edward Parrinder |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1975 |
Professor Marcel Simon |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1975 |
HIH Prince Mikasa-no-Miya Takahito Shinno |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1975 |
Professor Sir John Baker |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1976 |
Professor Wassily Leontief |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1976 |
Magnus Pyke |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1976 |
Sir Frederick Ralphs |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1976 |
John Bartholomew |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1977 |
Dr Jacob Dominian MBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1977 |
Professor Frederick Lawson |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1977 |
Sir Ronald Leach |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1977 |
Carlile Macartney |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1977 |
Stanley Shorrock |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1977 |
Sir Michael Tippett |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1977 |
Professor Sir Charles Carter |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1979 |
Reginald France |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1979 |
Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1979 |
Professor Irene Manton |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1979 |
1980s |
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Sir Roger Fulford |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1980 |
William Opher |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1980 |
Patricia Seed |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1980 |
Professor Kenneth Boulding |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1982 |
Archibald Brockway, Baron Brockway |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1982 |
Henry Moore |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1982 |
Dame Janet Baker DBE |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1983 |
Sir Christian Bonington CVO CBE DL |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1983 |
Dr Peter Scott CBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1983 |
Robert Fisk |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1984 |
Nelson Mandela |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1984 |
Dorothy Marshall |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1984 |
Norman Nicholson |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1984 |
Professor Philip Reynolds |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1985 |
John Boyce |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1986 |
Arthur Gray |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1986 |
Professor Derek Roberts CBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1986 |
Mario Soares |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1986 |
Thomas Stephenson |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1986 |
Professor Austin Woolrych |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1986 |
Sir Ronald Halstead CBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1987 |
Professor Maurice Levy |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1987 |
Professor Derek Whiteside |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1987 |
Professor Clement Bamford |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1988 |
Sir Tom Finney |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1988 |
Professor John Jeffers |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1988 |
Richard Bamber |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
Sister Aine Cox |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
Frederick Dainton, Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
Sir Denis Forman |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
Dr Hugh Pollard OBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
Robert Smith |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
James Waddell |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
John Wilson |
MSc (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
Victoria Wood CBE |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1989 |
1990s |
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Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg of Wigton |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
Dame Thora Hird DBE |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
Sir Henry Kerruish OBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
Sir John Manduell CBE |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
William Meredith |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
Sir Alastair Pilkington |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
Professor Alexander Ross |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
Sir Robert Somerville |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1990 |
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1991 |
Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1991 |
Christopher Nolan |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1991 |
Derek Ratcliffe |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1991 |
Donald Smith |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1991 |
John Statham |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1991 |
Sir Edward Downes |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1992 |
Joan Fitch |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1992 |
The Rt Revd Brian Foley |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1992 |
Hugh Howorth |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1992 |
Reginald Kaye |
MSc (Honoris Causa) |
1992 |
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw DBE DL |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1992 |
Sir Adrian Cadbury |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1993 |
Professor John Lawton |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1993 |
Sir Cyril Smith MBE DL |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1993 |
Sir David Tweedie |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1993 |
Dr Robert Woof |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1993 |
Professor Sir Walter Bodmer FRS |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1994 |
The Most Rev the Rt Hon Lord Eames OM |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1994 |
Helena Kennedy QC, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1994 |
Jeanne Moreau |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1994 |
Geoffrey Thompson OBE DL |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1994 |
Sir Simon Towneley KCVO DL |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1994 |
Denis Buczynski |
MSc (Honoris Causa) |
1995 |
The Rt Hon the Lord Chorley |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1995 |
Professor Keith Clayton CBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1995 |
Professor Harry Hanham |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1995 |
Sir Martin Holdgate CB |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1995 |
Professor Ninian Smart |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1995 |
Cedric Robinson MBE |
MSc (Honoris Causa) |
1996 |
The Rt Hon Lord Taylor of Blackburn CBE DL |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1996 |
Father John Turner |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1996 |
Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1996 |
Mary Burkett OBE |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1997 |
Professor Marilyn Butler FBA |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1997 |
Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1997 |
William Pearson |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1997 |
Robert Rubin |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1997 |
Dr Tan Sri Datuk Zahid |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1997 |
Professor Anthony Bradshaw FRS |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1998 |
Tony Cann CBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1998 |
Dr James Dearden |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1998 |
Professor Henry Mintzberg |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1998 |
Joss Naylor MBE |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1998 |
Hon Mrs Elizabeth Robins |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1998 |
Michael Brearley |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1999 |
Professor Hugh Pennington |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
1999 |
His Honour Judge Phillip Sycamore |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
1999 |
Yan Pascal Tortelier |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
1999 |
Professor Martin Trow |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
1999 |
Tom Watkinson |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
1999 |
2000s |
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Michael Berry |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
2000 |
Professor Peter Dornan |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2000 |
Professor Jaroslav Krejci |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2000 |
Alan Milburn |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2000 |
Jason Queally |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
2000 |
Professor Stephen Sparks |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2000 |
Mr Charles Wilson |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
2000 |
Councillor Abbott Bryning |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
2001 |
Satish Kumar |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2001 |
Professor Michael Brennan |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2002 |
Professor Naifang Chen |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2002 |
Professor Constantine Evangelides |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2002 |
Gordon Inkster |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2002 |
David Martin |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2002 |
Edward Stobart |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2002 |
Antony Burgmans |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2003 |
Stephen Cox CVO |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2003 |
Professor William Ritchie OBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2003 |
Gay Webb |
MA (Honoris Causa) |
2003 |
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2004 |
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2004 |
Professor David Lee |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2004 |
Sir Ian McKellen |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2004 |
Dr Ahdaf Soueif |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2004 |
Dr David Starkey |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2004 |
Brian Heron |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2005 |
Professor Sir John Krebs |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2005 |
Clive Lloyd CBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2005 |
Professor Robert May, Lord May of Oxford |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2005 |
HRH Princess Alexandra KG, GCVO |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
2005 |
The Rt Hon Lady Justice Smith DBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2005 |
Professor Robert Winston, Lord Winston of Hammersmith |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2005 |
Professor Nicholas Abercrombie |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2006 |
Professor Raymond Bradley |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2006 |
Dr Michael Dexter |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2006 |
Philip French |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2006 |
Professor Edward Gregson |
DMus (Honoris Causa) |
2006 |
Josephine Farrington, Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2007 |
Professor Matti Krusius |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2007 |
Professor Steven Long |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2007 |
Sir Thomas McKillop |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2007 |
Narayana Murthy |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2007 |
Michael Wood |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2007 |
Professor Mary Barth |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Professor Dame Carol Black DBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Sir Christopher Frayling |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Gerardine Hemingway MBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Wayne Hemingway MBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Jane Horrocks |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Professor Noreen Murray CBE FRS |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Miss Patricia Routledge CBE |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2008 |
Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale CBE |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
Professor W Brian Arthur |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell DBE FRS |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
Professor Sir Drummond Bone FRSA |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
Mary Cadogan |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
Fiona Chadwick |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
Edward Milligan |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
Kevin Roberts |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2009 |
2010s |
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Dame Joan Bakewell DBE |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2010 |
Edwin Booth DL |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2010 |
Terry Hill |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2010 |
Professor Averil Mansfield CBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2010 |
James May |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2010 |
Professor Kang Shaozhong |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2010 |
Jimmy Armfield CBE DL |
LLD (Honoris Causa) |
2011 |
Professor Dame Sally Davies DBE |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2011 |
Dame Sue Ion DBE FREng |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2011 |
The Rt Hon The Lord Smith of Finsbury PC |
DLitt (Honoris Causa) |
2011 |
Professor Lonnie Thompson |
DSc (Honoris Causa) |
2011 |