Honorary Graduates 1997

Alan Pascoe - 1997
Citation It is a particular pleasure to present one of our own for an honorary degree. Alan Pascoe is not only a graduate of Borough Road College - and he will be pleased to know that more people use that ... read full details

Clare Spottiswoode - 1997
Graduating from Cambridge in Economics, Clare Spottiswood started her career at HM Treasury in 1977. She has been Director General of Gas Supply since 1993 where she has transformed the world energy market by the introduction of choice and competition in the ... read full details

Dr Peter Williams CBE - 1997
Peter Williams Trained as a physicist and graduated from Cambridge with an MA and PhD. He has been Chief Executive of Oxford Instruments Group plc, the first Oxford University spin-off company, since 1985 and Chairman since 1991. He has been Chairman of ... read full details

Judi Clements - 1997
Judi Clements became Chief Executive of MIND in 1992. Her commitment to see people with mental health problems get a fairer deal in society has promoted the belief that user perspective should be at the heart of all mental health policy ... read full details

Kenneth Pearce - 1997
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Lady Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns - 1997
Baroness Anelay is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. She was Chairman of the Conservative Woman's National Committee 1993-96 and Vice-President of the National Union 1996-97. She was knighted in 1995 and made a life peer in 1996. DSocSci ... read full details

Oswald Morris - 1997
Citation Vice-Chancellor, Oswald Morris is one of Britain's most distinguished post-war directors of film photography, or - as they are more grandly titled -cinematographers. It is hard to overestimate the impact which the skills of cinematographers have on a ... read full details

Professor James Mirrlees - 1997
Having spent most of his career at Oxford, where he was Edgeworth Professor of Economics and Fellow of Nuffield College from 1968 to 1995, James Mirrlees has been Professor of Political Economy and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1995. In 1996 he ... read full details

Revrd Dr John R W Stott - 1997
John R W Stott was born in London in1921 and educated at Rugby School and Trinity College Cambridge. He was ordained in 1945 and became curate and then Rector at the Church of All Souls, Langham Place. He founded the Langham ... read full details

Sir Christopher Lewinton - 1997
Sir Christopher Lewinton joined TI Group plc in 1986 as Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman and was promoted to Chairman in 1989. He had previously been responsible for building up the international business of Wilkinson Sword. He was knighted in 1993 and appointed ... read full details

Sir John Cassels - 1997
Citation Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Cassels is a distinguished public servant who has made significant contributions to policy making in the post-war period, especially in connection with employment and education. After gaining a first-class honours in the Cambridge Classical Trypos, he ... read full details

Sir John Egan - 1997
Citation Virtually everybody sat in this hall has, at one time or another, sat nervously in one of our airports, run by the British Airports Authority, waiting to fly somewhere or other. It is an experience which frequently catches us ... read full details

Sir Peter Bonfield - 1997
Peter Bonfield worked for Texas Instruments USA from 1966 until 1981 when he became Group Executive Director of ICL plc. In 1985 he became Chairman and Chief Executive of ICL and was responsible for the company's change from mainframe specialist to a ... read full details