Cambridge University Reporter


Graces to be submitted to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on 24 March 2007

The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 24 March 2007.1

1. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon HANS MARTIN BLIX, Ph.D., of Trinity Hall, Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency and formerly Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission for Iraq.

2. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon ANN COTTON, O.B.E., Entrepreneur in Residence at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning in Judge Business School, founder and Executive Director of the Campaign For Female Education (CAMFED International).

3. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon The Right Honourable ONORA SYLVIA, Baroness O'NEILL OF BENGARVE, C.B.E., M.A., Litt.D., formerly Principal of Newnham College, Honorary Professor of Ethical and Political Philosophy, President of the British Academy.

4. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir NICHOLAS HERBERT STERN, M.A., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Second Permanent Secretary and Head of the Government Economic Service, HM Treasury.

5. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon RICHARD ERSKINE FRERE LEAKEY, formerly Permanent Secretary, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Public Service of Kenya and sometime Director of the Kenya National Museums and of the Kenya Wildlife Service.

6. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir JOHN BERTRAND GURDON, Ph.D., F.R.S., formerly Master and now Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, sometime Fellow of Churchill College, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Cell Biology Emeritus, and formerly Chairman of the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology.

7. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon DAVID HOCKNEY, C.H., R.A., artist.

8. That the title of the Degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon MURIEL CLAIRE TOMALIN, M.A., F.R.S.L., Honorary Fellow of Newnham College and of Lucy Cavendish College and Honorary Member of Magdalene College, writer.

1 It is expected that these Honorary Degrees will be conferred at a Congregation to be held on Monday, 25 June (see the Vice-Chancellor's Notice on p. 494).