Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 7 March 2012

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 16 March 2012

1. That Regulation 2(b) for the School of the Biological Sciences (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 557) and Regulation 3 for the Oliver Gatty Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 790) be amended by replacing the references to the Chairman of the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute by reference to the Director of that Institute.1

2. That on the recommendation of the General Board, the Montague Burton Professorship of Industrial Relations be retitled the Montague Burton Professorship of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics.2

3. That the recommendations in paragraph 3 of the Report of the General Board, dated 11 January 2012, on the establishment of an MRC Research Professorship of Biostatistics (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 388) be approved.3

4. That a Sir William Wade Fund be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:4

Sir William Wade Prize for Civil Liberties and Human Rights

1. The sum of £20,000 bequeathed by Mr Joseph Petty shall form a fund called The Sir William Wade Fund in memory of Professor Sir William Wade.

2. The income of the Fund shall be used to provide a prize called The Sir William Wade Prize to be awarded annually by the Examiners for the LL.M. Examination to the candidate who has shown the greatest distinction in Civil Liberties and Human Rights in that subject in the LL.M. Examination provided a candidate of sufficient merit presents his or her self.

3. The value of the prize, provided there is a candidate of sufficient merit, shall be divided between the prize-winner and the Squire Law Library.

4. If, in any year, the Prize is not awarded, the unexpended income shall be added to the capital of the Fund.

5. That the regulations for the Olga Youhotsky and Catherine Matthews Fund and Prize be retitled as the Olga Youhotsky, Catherine Matthews, and Irene Gore Fund and Prize.5

Graces to be submitted to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on 24 March 2012

The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 24 March 2012.1

1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon The Right Honourable Igor, Baron Judge of Draycote, M.A., Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, President of the Selden Society.

2. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Brigitte Alice Askonas, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci., Honorary Fellow of Girton College and of Murray Edwards College, formerly Director of Immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research.

3. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Uta Frith, Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, F.R.S., F.B.A., F.Med.Sci., Research Foundation Professor in the Faculties of Humanities and Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Professor of Cognitive Development Emerita, University College London, developmental psychologist.

4. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir Richard Lavenham Gardner, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, formerly Edward Penley Abraham Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Honorary Professor in the University of York, physiologist.

5. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Peter Ware Higgs, F.R.S., F.R.S.E., Hon. F.Inst.P., Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh.

6. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Roger Yonchien Tsien, Ph.D., Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and of Churchill College, Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry and Biochemistry in the University of California, San Diego, Nobel Laureate.

7. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Phillip Kenneth King, C.B.E., M.A., P.P.R.A., Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College, formerly President of the Royal Academy and Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Academy Schools, Professor of Sculpture Emeritus in the Royal College of Art, sculptor.

8. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Alfred Brendel, Hon. K.B.E., pianist.

J. W. NICHOLLS, Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE ‘REPORTER’