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Honorary DegreesThe University has conferred the following Honorary Degrees at Academic Ceremonies on the dates shown. Doctor of Laws 19 October 1967 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Nelson Thomas Carne, OBE, JP The Rt Hon The Earl of Dalhousie, KT, GBE. MC, LLD Sir Malcolm Knox, MA, LLD, DLitt, FRSE Ronald Buchanan McCallum, MA Brigadier James Alexander Oliver, CB, CBE, DSO, TD, DL The Rt Hon George Morgan Thomsoll, PC, MP Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley, CB, DSO, MC, DL, LLD 2 July 1968 Mrs Agnes Watson Dow, MA, MB, ChB The Rt Hon Lord Fulton of Falmer, MA, LLD, DLitt Professor William James Millar Mackenzie, CBE, MA, LLB Sir William Stuart Murrie, GCB, KBE, MA 21 August 1968 The Rt Hon Lord Jackson of Burnley, FRS Professor Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS Sir Peter Brian Medawar, CBE, FRS 1 July 1969 Cedric Thorpe Davie, OBE, FRAM, ARCM Miss Ursula Katherine Duncan, MA, FLS Robert Brockie Hunter, MBE, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPE, FACP Councillor Maurice McManus, CBE, JP, DL Jiri Mucha Peter Ustinov, FRSA 6 July 1970 Professor Gerald Jean Antoine, DesL John Berry, CBE, PhD Angus Anderson Fulton, CBE, BSc, FICE, FIME, FIEE, FRSE The Very Rev Alastair lan Macdonald Haggart, MA James Roy Lindsay Halley, OBE Emeritus Professor Sir lan George Wilson Hill, CBE, TD, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPE, FRSE 12 July 1971 Professor Lars Goran Borg The Very Rev Hugh Osborne Douglas, CBE, MA, DD Lewis Findlay Robertson, CBE John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph, MA, PhD Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater, CBE, MA, MD 14 July 1972 Professor William Fisher Cassie, CBE, BSc, PhD, FRSE, FICE, MlStructE, FlnstHE, AMTPI Sorley Maclean Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, GCMG, CBE Sir George Taylor, DSc, FRS, FRSE, FLS 12 July 1973 Brigadier The Rt Hon Lord Ballantrae, GCMG, GCVO. DSO, OBE, DCL, LLD The Rt Hon Lord Guest, PC, QC, MA, LLB The Rt Hon Roy Harris Jenkins, PC, MP, BA, DCL James Mclntosh Patrick, RSA 12 July 1974 The Hon James Alexander Charles Auld Professor Lothar Gollatz Professor Gordon Elliot Fogg, PhD, ScD, FRS, CBE Sir Dingle Macintosh Foot, PC, QC, MA Colonel Charles Newbigging Thomson, CBE, DSO, TD, DL, CA George Waterston, OBE, FRSE 18 July 1975 Sir William Hardie Kininmonth, PRSA, FRIBA, FRIAS, RA, RSW Douglas Moul Mclntosh, CBE, MA, BSc, PhD, FRSE, FEIS Sir Walter Laing Macdonald Perry, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCPE, FRSE 9 July 1976 Sir William Melville Arnott, TD, BSc, MD, Hon DSc, Hon LLD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPath, FRSE, Hon FRCPC, Hon FACP Sir Charles Gibson Connell, BL, WS, JP Robert Kemsley Orr, CBE, MA, MusD, FRCM, Hon RAM Lewis Guy Melville Thorpe, BA, LesL, PhD, D de l'U, FRHistS, FIAL, FRSA 15 July 1977 George Mackay Brown, OBE, MA John Belford Wilson Christie, BA, LLB The Rt Hon The Earl of Elgin, DL, JP, MA Sir Basil Henry David Montgomery, Bt, DL, JP Mrs Sybil Douglas Murray, MBE, BA, Hon FEIS Sir Rex Edwards Richards, MA, DSc, FRS The Very Rev David Steel, MA, BD, Hon DD 14 July 1978 The Hon Mark Raymond Bonham Carter, MA Professor Donald Johan Kuenen, PhD, DSc David Fleming McCurrach, OBE, BL Professor Patrick Dunbar Ritchie, BSc, PhD, FRIC, FPI, MlChemE, FRSE 13 July 1979 Emeritus Principal James Drever, MA, FRSE Hamish Scott Henderson, MA Andrew Short, MSc Sir Leonard Gordon Wolfson, Hon FRCP, Hon PhD, Hon DCL, Hon LLD, Hon DSc 11 July 1980 James Whyte Black, MB, ChB, Hon DSc, Hon DTech, FRS, FRCP The Rt Hon The Lord Boyle of Handsworth, PC, MA, Hon LLD, Hon DLitt, Hon DSc, Hon FRCS Mark James Walter Cameron, Hon DLitt Edward Edmund Kemp, MBE, VMH, DPH Albert Morrocco, RSA 10 July 1981 Professor John Russell Anderson, BSc, MD, MRCP, FRCPG, FRCPath, FRSE Sir Neil Cameron, GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC, AE William Knight Fitzgerald, CBE, JP, DL Emeritus Professor Hubert Horace Lamb, MA, FRMetS, FRGS Dorothea, Countess of Mansfield and Mansefield The Very Rev Principal James Aitken Whyte, MA 5 May 1982 Professor Christopher Charles Booth, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, HonFACP, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite Charles Dargie Brown, BSc, FFE Geoffrey Kemp Caston, MA, MPA Professor Walter Joseph Kamba, BA, LLB, LLM Professor Malcolm Sim Longair, BSc, MA, PhD Lord Mackie of Benshie, CBE, DSO, DFC Dame Kiri Ti Kanawa, OBE 16 July 1982 John Harrison Burnett, MA, DPhil, FRSE, FlBiol David Carnegy-Arbuthnott, CA, DL Laszlo Gombos, Dr rer jur, Barrister Dame Margaret Kidd, QC Joan Macintosh, CBE, MA 15 July 1983 Hew Martin Lorimer, RSA, FRBS Lord Mackay of Clashfern, PC, QC, BA, MA, LLB George Ross Mathewson, BSc, PhD, MBA John Angus Macbeth Mitchell, CB, CVO, MC, BA William Nicoll, CMG, MA lain Crichton Smith, OBE, MA, FRSL 13 July 1984 Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, MA, PRS Jessie Kesson Sir Fitzroy Hew MacLean of Dunconnel, Bt, CBE Virindar Mohan Malhotra, PEng, BSc, BE Lech Walesa 12 July 1985 Sir Kenneth John Wilson Alexander, BSc(Econ), Hon LLD, Hon DUniv, FRSE Sir Herbert Vernon Bonar, CBE, BA, Hon LLD The Rt Hon Lord Flowers, CBE, MA, MSc, DSc, Hon DSc, FlnstP, Hon FIEE, Hon FCGI, FRS Lady Naomi Margaret Mitchison, CBE, QC, Hon LLD, Hon DUniv Sir Alan Marshall Muir Wood, MA, FICE, FRS John James Andrew Reid, CB, TD, BSc, MD, Hon DSc, FRCP, FRCPE, DPH,FFCM, FRCPS 11 July 1986 Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest, MD, FRCS, FRCSE, FRCSG, Hon DSc, Hon FACS Norman Alexander MacCaig, OBE, MA, FRSL, Hon DUniv James Paton McPherson Brigadier Helen Guild Meechie, CBE, MA Robert Gordon Wilson, BL, MP 10 July 1987 Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, BA, FRSL Gene Howard Golub, MA, PhD The Most Rev Lawrence Edward Luscombe, CA, ASAA, FSAScot Ivar Andreas Mjor, BDS, MSD, DrOdont Geoffrey Donald Sims, OBE, MSc, PhD, FEng, FIEE, FIERE, FCGI Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, PhD, DIC, DSc(Eng), DipEng, FICE, FASCE, FCGI, FRS, FEng 15 July 1988 Robert Baynes Horton, BSc, SM Hans W Kosterlitz, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCPE, FRS, FRSE Sir Malcolm Campbell MacNaughton, MD, FRCPG, FRCOG, FRSE David Morrison Walker, DA, CertEd, Hon FRIAS 14 July 1989 William Fyffe Morrison Dorward, MB, ChB, FRCGP Donald Blane Grant, CA, TD The Rt Hon Lord McCluskey of Churchhill, QC Bruce Millan, CA Sir Laurens van der Post, CBE, FRSL, Hon DLitt DUniv 13 July 1990 Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC Peter Bryan Garland, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, FRSE Rev William Boyd Robertson MacMillan, MA, BD Sir Alan Turner Peacock, MA, DSc, FBA The Rt Hon. Lord Scarman, KT, PC, OBE Elizabeth Ward, MBE 12 July 1991 James Adamson, OBE, DEng The Rt Hon Jack Ashley, CH, PC, MP Baroness Carnegy of Lour, DL Stuart Hood, MA, MBE David Jack, BSe, PhD, DSc, FRSC, FlBiol, FRSPharm, FRSE The Rt Hon Lord Ross, QC, PC 29 April 1992 Robert Campbell Garry, OBE, MB, ChB, DSc, FRCPG, FRSE Barbara Hendricks, BSc, BMus Jean-Pierre Changeux, DR, ES SC 10 July 1992 Donald Eric Broadbent, CBE, MA, ScD, FRS, FBPsS Roger Geoffrey Gibbs Sir Douglas Hardie, CBE, FRSA Rosalyn Higgins, BA, LLB, JSD, QC Sir Robert Kilpatrick, CBE, MB, ChB, MD, FRCPE, FRCP Ronald H Coase, BSc(Econ) 16 July 1993 Sir Walter Bodmer, FRS, FRCPath, CBiol, FIBiol Sir Gordon Borrie, QC Brian Cox Professor Peter Hewlett, BSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, FInstCeram, FICT, APRI William Low, CBE, JP, CBIM Professor Sir David Mason, CBE, BDS, FRCS, FDSRCPSG, FDSRCSE, FRCPath Jean Morris, CBE, MA, MEd Imre Makovecz 14 July 1994 Lady Duncan of Jordanstone Jean Muir, CBE, RDI, FCSD The Lord Rix, CBE, DL 15 July 1994 James Stuart Fair, MA, LLB The Most Revd Trevor Huddleston, CR 13 July 1995 Alan William Cuthbert, BPharm, BSc, MA, PhD, FRS, HonDSc Peter Doyle, BSc, PhD, FRSE, HonDSc Sir William Duncan Paterson Stewart, BSc, PhD, DSc, FIBiol, FRS, FRSE 14 July 1995 Ibrahim Shihata, SJD Albert Watson, DA, MA Stephen Fry, MA 11 July 1996 Michael Rosen, CBE, MBChB, FRCA, FRCOG, FRCS Datuk Kamal Salih, BA, MA, PhD Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, OBE, GRSM(Hons), LRAM, ARAM, HonDMus 12 July 1996 Michael John Hamlin, CBE, BSc, HonLLD, FEng, FICE, FIWEM, FRSE Ronald Bonar Richard Demarco, OBE, RSW, SSA 10 July 1997 Sir David Carter, MBChB, MD David S Wilson, DipM 11 July 1997 Susan K MacGregor, OBE John R Postage, FRS David G Robertson, CBE, MA, MEd 1 May 1998 Emeritus Principal Adam Matthew Neville, CBE, MC, TD, PhD, DSc, FEng, FIStructE, FAmSocCE, FRSE Dame Bridget Ogilvie, SCD, FIBiol. FRCPath Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, FRS George Henry Poste, FRS, DSc, HonLLD Bruce Rappaport Ruth Rappaport Emeritus Professor Geoffrey John Fraser Dutton, BSc, PhD, DSc, HonDPhilD, Dde l'Univ, FRSE 9 July 1998 James W Duncan Ronald Stevenson, PhD, FRMCM, HonFRIAS Euan Baird Sir Edmund John Phillip Browne 10 July 1998 Professor Sir David P Tweedie Annie Jarvie Russell A Leather 8 July 1999 Professor Sir Hans Kornberg Elaine C Smith Professor David E Sugden 9 July 1999 Sir William Macpherson of Cluny Sir Jonathon Porritt Mrs Carole J Wood 12 July 1999 Gary Player 13 July 2000 Leslie Bisset Lord Cullen Sir Kenneth Murray Lord George Robertson, MA (Dundee) John Suchet, MA (St Andrews) 14 July 2000 Helen Bamber Liz Locchead 12 July 2001 Sydney Scroggie Ian Graham-Bryce, CBE, MA, BSc, DPhil, CChem, FRSC, FRSA, FRSE Professor Salvador Moncada 13 July 2001 Sir Robert Wilson Xu Ya-Fen 11 July 2002 Professor Margaret Alexander Dr Bonnie Dunbar Herbie Haxton David Mach Robert Seaton, MA, LLB 12 July 2002 Sir Bob Geldof Dr Timothy Hunt Professor Donald McIntyre Professor Wilson Sibbett Sheridan Snyder Lady Strathmore 5 February 2003 John Simpson 8 July 2003 Stella McCartney 10 July 2003 Peter Baillie Michael S Gordon 11 July 2003 Seamus Justin Heaney John Bell Tuckwell Valerie Jennifer Tuckwell Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop 26 September 2003 Frank Owen Gehry 30 June 2004 Catherine Lockerbie Duncan Macmillan 1 July 2004 Gavin Brown Colin Malcolm Campbell Alison Jane Patricia Goligher Lawrence A L Rolland 2 July 2004 Hamish MacInnes Andrew Marr Lord Naren Patel Jane Emily Tomlinson 11 May 2005 Baroness Susan Greenfield 23 June 2005 Edward de Bono Professor Julian C R Hunt 24 June 2005 Noerine Kaleeba Frederick MacAulay 12 July 2005 Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge Sir John Edward Sulston 31 May 2006 Baroness Caroline Cox Anna Glasier 22 June 2006 Zhores Alferov Suzanne Lacasse Jimmy Murakami Iain Ovens 23 June 2006 Sydney Brenner Christopher Lipinski Sheena Wellington 11 July 2006 Catherine Hamlin Sybill Storz Andrew Thomson 9 February 2007 Baroness Lynda Clark of Calton Professor Sir Philip Cohen John Letford Bishop Vincent Logan Michael Marra Elizabeth McColgan Russell Reid Norman Robertson 20 June 2007 Margaret Catley-Carlson 21 June 2007 Carol Ann Duffy Georges Henry Erasmus Thomas Heatherwick Philip Pullman Gerald Scarfe Ettore Sottsass 22 June 2007 Sir Tom Blundell Piet Borst Joyce Thompson Jacqueline Wilson 10 July 2007 Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri 18 June 2008 Nicola Benedetti Lord Turnbull QC 19 June 2008 William Boyd Alan Johnston Dame Vivienne Westwood 20 June 2008 Professor Edmund Fischer Lord Foster or Thames Bank Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys Lorraine Kelly Dr Walter C Willett 8 July 2008 Professor Alastair Wood Professor Margaret Wood 24 June 2009 Richard Holloway 25 June 2009 Professor Matthias Mann Professor Frank Walsh 26 June 2009 Wendy Houvenaghel Sir Paul Nurse Sir David Weatherall 22 June 2010 Roberto Lenton Rosamunde Pilcher OBE 23 June 2010 Bahia Hariri Bruce Johnston 24 June 2010 Gosta Walin 25 June 2010 Nick Cave Sir Alan Langlands 16 November 2010 John Milligan CBE 22 June 2011 Dr Nicholas Lydon Dr Martin Mackay Jim McLean 23 June 2011 Professor James Murray John Byrne 24 June 2011 Dr Kazem Behbehani Professor Douglas Hanahan Professor Sir David Lane 16 November 2011 Professor Sir John Bell 2 February 2012 Dr Andom Ogbamariam Doctor of Science 12 July 2005 Sir James Whyte Black Master of Arts 9 July 1976 Harry Russell Halkerston Woolford, OBE, FMA, FIIC 12 July 1985 Jimmy Shand, MBE 15 July 1994 Jenny Wood Allen, JP Master of Medical Science 18 July 1975 Douglas Swan Fraser 14 July 1978 Judy Peden Greig, MA Master of Science 12 July 1971 George Hendry, BEM 13 July 1979 Colin Hutcheon Gibson, DA |
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