Graces

Graces to be submitted to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on 21 February 2015

The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 21 February 2015.1

1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Rabbi Julia Babette Sarah, Baroness Neuberger, D.B.E., M.A., of Newnham College, Senior Rabbi to the West London Synagogue, formerly Chief Executive of the King’s Fund, and sometime Chancellor of the University of Ulster, rabbi and medical ethicist.

2. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Judge Hisashi Owada, LL.B., Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Judge and sometime President of the International Court of Justice, formerly Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, and sometime Representative at and President of the Security Council, judge and diplomat.

3. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Sir James Alexander Mirrlees, M.A., Ph.D., F.B.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, Distinguished Professor-at-Large and Master of Morningside College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Macau, Nobel Laureate, economist.

4. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Sir Michael David Rawlins, F.R.C.P., F.Med.Sci., Chair of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and formerly Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Emeritus Professor and former Ruth and Lionel Jacobson Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, and Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, physician and pharmacologist.

5. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Robert Neil MacGregor, O.M., A.O., F.S.A., Hon. F.B.A., Director of the British Museum and formerly Director of the National Gallery, art historian.

6. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego, D.B.E., Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College, painter and printmaker.

7. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Judith Jarvis Thomson, M.A., of Newnham College, Professor of Philosophy Emerita and formerly Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moral and metaphysical philosopher.

8. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Sir John Eliot Gardiner, C.B.E., M.A., Hon. F.R.A.M., 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, conductor.