Honorary Graduates 2009
Alastair Stuart Curtis - 2009
Alastair Curtis is currently Head of Design for Nokia, the mobile phone giant. He was born and grew up in Leeds, moving south in 1986 to study at Brunel, graduating in 1990 with a BSc in Industrial Design. After Brunel, Alastair was ... read full details
Dame Kelly Holmes - 2009
Dame Kelly Holmes secured her place in history by becoming the first British female athlete to win both the 800m and 1500m in the 2004 Olympic Games. One of her most successful seasons ever, Kelly's achievements on the track in 2004 set ... read full details
James Samuel Younger CBE - 2009
James Samuel Younger - known as Sam - was born in 1951 and attended Westminster School and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
His early career was spent in journalism and then the BBC ... read full details
Jeffrey Ellwood - 2009
Jeffrey Ellwood was educated at Eltham College, leaving in 1963 to take up a management trainee post at Berk Ltd, a company involved in the distribution of chemicals. Three years later he joined the Chemical Division of BASF UK, one of ... read full details
Jenni Murray OBE - 2009
Jenni Murray is known to millions of radio listeners as the voice of Woman's Hour on Radio 4. She was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire in 1950, four years after Woman's Hour first came on the air.
Jenni attended Barnsley ... read full details
Kelly Sotherton - 2009
One of Britain's leading female athletes, Kelly Sotherton is a Commonwealth gold medallist and Olympic bronze medallist. After a the toughest year of her career plagued with injury and illness, Kelly battled back to form to take part in the ... read full details
Lord Sainsbury of Turville - 2009
David Sainsbury was educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained a BA in History and Psychology. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia’s Graduate School of Business in 1971. After graduation, he joined the family ... read full details
Margaret Ann Burgess - 2009
Margaret Burgess - known as Maggie - grew up in Canada and trained as a nurse. She qualified as an open-heart intensive care nurse and spent several years working in Saudi Arabia, organising trips to Nepal in her spare time.
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Mark Rylance - 2009
Actor, theatre director and playwright Mark Rylance was born in England but grew up in America. He studied at RADA in the 1970s.
A professional actor since 1980, Mark has acted in 48 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He ... read full details
Peter John Galloway OBE - 2009
The Revd Professor Peter Galloway OBE was born in 1954 and educated at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he read history, and St Stephen's House, Oxford. He was awarded a PhD from King's College, University of London in 1987.
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Rt Hon Malcolm Wicks MP - 2009
Malcolm Wicks was born in 1947 and is Labour Member of Parliament for Croydon North. He was educated at North West London Polytechnic and the London School of Economics, obtaining a BSc degree in Sociology.
His early career was in academia ... read full details
Sir Craig Reedie CBE - 2009
Sir Craig Reedie was born in 1941 in Stirling, Scotland and educated at Stirling High School and the University of Glasgow where he obtained both MA and LLB degrees.
Sir Craig has enjoyed a long career in Sports Administration. A former ... read full details
The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE - 2009
Lord Hurd, now 79, retired as Foreign Secretary in July 1995, after a distinguished career in Government.
After positions as Minister of State in the Foreign Office and the Home Office, he served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1984-1985, ... read full details
