Acta
Approval of Graces submitted to the Regent House on 10 June
2015
The Graces submitted to the Regent House on 10 June 2015
(Reporter, 6390, 2014–15, p. 629) were approved at 4 p.m. on
Friday, 19 June 2015.
Congregation of the Regent House on 17 June 2015: Honorary
Degrees
A Congregation of the Regent House was held this day at 2.45 p.m. The
Chancellor was present. Processions formed in the Schools Arcade at 2.25 p.m. and
entered the Senate-House by the East Door.
Music was performed at the Congregation by His Majesty’s Sagbutts and
Cornetts, and members of the choirs of King’s College and Trinity College. The programme
of music was arranged by the University Organist Stephen Cleobury, C.B.E., of King’s
College.
The following titular degrees were conferred:
Doctor of Divinity
(honoris
causa)
Rabbi Julia Babette Sarah, Baroness Neuberger, d.b.e., m.a.
Senior Rabbi to the West London Synagogue and medical ethicist, of
Newnham College, formerly Chief Executive of the King’s Fund and sometime Chancellor of
the University of Ulster
Doctor of Law (honoris
causa)
Judge Hisashi Owada, ll.b.
Judge and diplomat, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, sometime
President of the International Court of Justice and formerly Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Japan to the United Nations
Doctor of Science
(honoris
causa)
Professor Sir James Alexander Mirrlees, m.a., ph.d.,
f.b.a.
Economist, Fellow of Trinity College and Professor of Political
Economy Emeritus, Distinguished Professor-at-Large and Master of Morningside College,
the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Distinguished Professor of Economics,
University of Macau, Nobel Laureate
Doctor of Science
(honoris
causa)
Sir Michael David Rawlins, f.r.c.p.,
f.med.sci.
Physician and pharmacologist, Chair of the Medicines and Healthcare
Products Regulatory Agency and formerly Chair of the National Institute for Health and
Care Excellence, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle, and Honorary Professor,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Doctor of Letters
(honoris
causa)
Mr Robert Neil MacGregor, o.m., a.o., f.s.a., hon.
f.b.a.
Art historian, Director of the British Museum, and formerly Director
of the National Gallery
Doctor of Letters
(honoris
causa)
Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego, d.b.e.
Painter and printmaker, Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College
Doctor of Letters
(honoris
causa)
Professor Judith Jarvis Thomson, m.a.
Moral and metaphysical philosopher, of Newnham College, Professor of
Philosophy Emerita and formerly Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Music (honoris
causa)
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, c.b.e., m.a., hon.
f.r.a.m.
Conductor, Honorary Fellow of King’s College and sometime Visiting
Fellow of Peterhouse, Founder and Artistic Director of the Monteverdi Choir, the English
Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et
Romantique
The Orator delivered the following speeches when presenting to The
Chancellor the recipients of the Honorary Degrees.
Honorary Degree Congregation – June 2015
J. W. NICHOLLS, Registrary
END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE ‘REPORTER’
