1980
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Professor Harry Ansoff* |
DSc |
Sir Raymond Brown OBE* |
DSc |
Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS FIBiol* |
DSc |
Prof Eur Ing Frei Otto DSc* |
DSc |
Harold Wassell OBE* |
MEng |
Professor Geoffrey Wilkinson* |
DSc |
The Rt Hon The Baroness Williams of Crosby CH PC* |
DLitt |
1981
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS |
DSc |
Dr William Brandt* |
DLitt |
Professor Gillian Brown CBE* |
LLD |
Dr Duncan Davies* |
DSc |
Dr Glyn England FREng FIEE FIMechE* |
DSc |
Sir William Hawthorne CBE FRS FREng FIMechE* |
DSc |
Sir Douglas Henley KCB* |
LLD |
Sir Richard Morris CBE FREng* |
DSc |
Sir Richard O'Brien DSO MC* |
LLD |
Professor Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Bt DSc FRS* |
DSc |
1982
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Sir Kenneth Corfield KT CE FEng FInstBM FIMechE* |
DSc |
Professor John Heslop-Harrison* |
DSc |
Reginald Parker MIMechE MIProdE* |
MSc |
Sir Peter Parker KBE* |
LLD |
Sir D'Arcy Reilly* |
DLitt |
Sir Derek Roberts FRS FREng FInstP |
DSc |
Baroness Nancy Seear of Paddington* |
DLitt |
1983
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Dr Rudolf Augstein* |
DLitt |
Professor Peter Danckwerts* |
DSc |
Professor Paul Matthews* |
DSc |
Dame Iris Murdoch* |
DLitt |
Sir Clive Sinclair* |
DSc |
Baroness Eirene White of Rhymney* |
LLD |
1984
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Sir Roger Bannister CH CBE DM (Oxon) FRCP* |
DSc |
Professor Sir Basil Blackwell* |
DSc |
Professor Barry Cunliffe CBE FBA FSA |
DSc |
Sir William Glock* |
DLitt |
Dr Simon Nora* |
DLitt |
Sir Kenneth Selby* |
LLD |
Professor Amartya Sen Hon CH FBA |
DSc |
Sir Robert Telford CBE DL FREng FIEE* |
DSc |
1985
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Professor Sir Geoffrey Allen FRS FREng FRSC |
DSc |
Stanley Hamilton* |
MSc |
Professor Fritz John* |
DSc |
Dr Peter King DSc* |
DSc |
Dr James Nisbet* |
DSc |
The Lord Quirk CBE FBA* |
DLitt |
Professor David Tabor* |
DSc |
Sir Douglas Wass GCB* |
DLitt |
1986
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Professor Heather Angel MSc FRPS FBIPP |
DSc |
Professor Sir James Baddiley FRS FRSE* |
DSc |
Sir William Barlow FREng FIMechE FIEE FCGI* |
DSc |
Pat Bishop |
MA |
Dr John Bolton CBE* |
DSc |
The Rt Hon The Lord Chilver FRS FREng* |
DSc |
The Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM |
DSc |
Professor David Kendall FRS* |
DSc |
June Mendoza AO OBE RP ROI |
DLitt |
Dame Maggie Smith CBE |
DLitt |
1987
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Kate Adie OBE |
MA |
Sir John Banham DL* |
LLD |
Sir John Burgh KCMG CB* |
LLD |
Professor Margaret Gowing* |
DSc |
Dr Bob Holder* |
LLD |
Sir David Jack CBE FRS FRSE |
DSc |
Sir Denis Rooke OM CBE FRS FREng* |
LLD |
The Baroness Warnock CH DBE* |
DLitt |
Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes FRS FEng FIEE FBCS* |
DSc |
Youyun Zhang |
MA |
1988
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Dr Robert Ballard |
DSc |
Sir Walter Bodmer FRS FIBiol FRCPath |
DSc |
Sir Arthur C Clarke CBE* |
DLitt |
Isabel Colegate* |
MA |
Sir John Egan DL |
LLD |
Professor Fritz Leonhardt* |
DSc |
Professor Golo Mann* |
DLitt |
Fay Weldon CBE FRSL* |
DLitt |
Dr Andreas Whittam Smith CBE |
LLD |
1989
Honorary graduate |
Degree conferred |
Professor Thomas Benjamin* |
DSc |
John F Coates DSc OBE* |
DSc |
The Rt Hon The Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge* |
LLD |
Professor John Morrison* |
DLitt |
Barbara Robertson* |
MA |
Alan Rousell |
DSc |
The Earl of Snowdon GCVO* |
LLD |
An asterisk (*) appears after the name of a deceased honorary graduate.