Honorary graduates: 1904 to present  1941-1960

1941

Emeritus Professor Paul Barbier (DLitt)
Emeritus Professor John William Cobb (DSc)
Emeritus Professor Alexander Thompson (LLD)

1942

John Winant (LLD)

1943

Col. Hugh Delabere Bousfield (LLD)
Sir Charles Travis Clay (DLitt)
Edward Victor Evans (DSc)
Rev. Cyril Forester Garbett (DD)
Margaret Storm Jameson (DLitt)
Henry Raper (LLD)

1944

Gordon Bottomley (DLitt)
Sir Montague Burton (LLD)
Jessie Kitson (LLD)
Harold Whitaker (PhD)
Sir Percy Winfield (LLD)

1945

Sir Robert Anthony Eden (LLD)
Elinor Lupton (LLD)
Henry Moore (DLitt)
George Thompson (MA)
Sir Henry Cherry Tizard (DSc)
Gerard Veale (LLD)

1946

Herbert Vere Evatt (LLD)
The Viscount Leathers (LLD)
Sir Frederick Pile (LLD)
Lord (William) Slim (LLD)
Arthur Tedder (LLD)
Lord Waverley (LLD)

1947

Charles Frederick Ratcliffe Brotherton (LLD)
Professor Henry Buckley Charlton (DLitt)
Andrew Browne Cunningham (LLD)
Lt. General Sir William George Dobbie (LLD)
Wilfred Joseph Halliday (PhD)
Thomas Edmund Harvey (LLD)
Lt. Col. Sir John Alexander Dunnington-Jefferson (LLD)
Henry Mahony (PhD)
Professor Sigurdur Nordal (DLitt)
Michael Polanyi (DSc)
William Goodwin Senior (PhD)
Croydon Whittaker (DSc)

1948

Lewis William Douglas (LLD)
Sir Percival Hartley (DSc)
Rev. William Hughes (DD)
Lord MacKintosh of Halifax (LLD)
Dame Edith Sitwell (DLitt)
Sir Bracewell Smith (LLD)
Terry Thomas (LLD)

1949

Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (DLitt)
Professor James Couper Brash (DSc)
Sir James Chadwick (DSc)
General Dwight David Eisenhower (LLD)
Arnold Trevor Green (DSc)
Bernard Jones (LLD)
Dame Lillian Penson (LLD)
Emile Victor Rieu (DLitt)

1950

Sir Robert Birley (LLD)
Lord (David) Cecil (DLitt)
Lord (Francis Raymond) Evershed (LLD)
Professor Barker Fairley (DLitt)
Emeritus Professor Robert Whytlaw-Gray (DSc)
Alexander Lindsay (LLD)
Louis Harold Mountbatten (LLD)
William Pickles (DSc)
Major Walter Pothecary (LLD)

1951

Alderman David Beevers (LLD)
Viscountess Margaret Boyne (LLD)
Kathleen Chambers (LLD)
The Rt. Rev. George Armitage Chase (DD)
Lady Helen Cynthia Colville (LLD)
Dame Julia Myra Hess (LLD)
Sir Hubert Houldsworth (LLD)
Sir John Huggins (LLD)
John James Ilett (MA)
Gertrude Illingworth (MA)
James Laybourn (MA)
Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd (LLD)
Thomas Lodge (DLitt)
The Rt. Hon. Lawrence Lumley (LLD)
Sir George Martin (LLD)
John Morrell (LLD)
The Rt. Hon. Angela Pery (LLD)
Brigadier James Noel Tetley (LLD)

1952

Albert Herman Aldridge (LLD)
Professor Marius Adolphus Van Bouwdijk Bastiaanse (LLD)
Ernest Green (LLD)
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (DSc)
Sir Eardley Holland (LLD)
Wyndham Lewis (DLitt)
Arthur Ransome (DLitt)
William Riley-Smith (LLD)
Sir James Turner (LLD)

1953

Professor John Baker (DSc)
Goodwin Batterson Beach (DLitt)
Professor Petrus Johannes Enk (DLitt)
Margot Fonteyn (DLitt)
Eugene Freyssinet (DSc)
Thomas Girtin (LLD)
Eric Craven Gregory (LLD)
Professor Charles Huggins (DSc)
Professor Christopher Kelk Ingold (DSc)
Cyril Meggitt (MA)
Lord Milner of Leeds (LLD)
Alfred Prior (MA)
William Hunter Rose (MSc)
Viscount Herbert Louis Samuel (DLitt)
Percy Scholes (DLitt)
Ronald Ogier Ward (DSc)
John Wilkinson (MSc)

1954

Duchess of Devonshire (widow of 10th Duke) (LLD)
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (LLD)
Professor Evarts Ambrose Graham (LLD)
The Rt. Hon. John Hindley (LLD)
Sir David Owen (LLD)
Professor Wilder Graves Penfield (LLD)
Fred Rankin (LLD)
Sir Harry Shackleton (LLD)
Sir Arthur Trueman (LLD)
Sir Cecil Wakeley (LLD)

1955

Sir William Linton Andrews (DSc)
Major Philip Maurice Beachcroft (LLD)
Sydney Clayton Fryers (MA)
Lord Middleton (LLD)
Emeritus Professor William Milne (LLD)
Edwin Muir (DLitt)
John Henry Nicholson (LLD)
Dorothy Phillips (LLD) Joseph Slepian (DSc)
Professor Bruno Snell (DLitt)

1956

Alderman/Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd (LLD)
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (DSc)
James Bryant Conant (LLD)
Sir George Dyson (LLD)
James Digby Firth (MA)
Walter Freudenberg (DSc)
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (LLD)
The Rt. Rev. Arthur Reeve (DD)
Professor Sir Ian Richmond (DLitt)
Edward Rickerby (MA)
Sir Oliver Graham Sutton (DSc)

1957

Lord Janner (LLD)
Sir Ivor Jennings (LLD)
Margaret Mead (DSc)
Professor Gunnar Myrdal (LLD)
Lord Ramsey of Canterbury (DD)
Mary Stocks (LLD)
E. W. Taylor (DSc)
Lord Weeks (LLD)

1958

Professor Oene Bottema (LLD)
Mary Lucy Cartwright (DSc)
Frederick Donald Coggan (DD)
Professor Sir John G Edwards (DLitt)
Professor Peter Racine Fricker (DMus)
William Harrison (LLD)
George Kirk (MA)
Professor Walter Von Wartburg (DLitt)

1959

Professor Alfred Ewert (DLitt)
Sir Edward Hale (LLD)
Earl of Harewood (LLD)
Sir George Raymond Hinchcliffe (LLD)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (DSc)
Sir Rudolph Peters (DSc)
Jonas Edward Salk (DSc)
Sir Phillip Manderson Sherlock (LLD)
Sir Harold Smith (LLD)
Norma Sykes (DLitt)

1960

Ivy Compton-Burnett (DLitt)
Barker Thomas Clegg (LLD)
Philip Gooding (MSc)
Sir Edwin Herbert (LLD)
William Colley Monckton Matterson (MSc)
Sir John Neale (DLitt)
Sir George Sansom (DLitt)