Honorary degrees

University of Bristol DEng: Ronald Hobbs, former director, Ove Arup and Partners, chairman of the university's buildings committee; John Taylor, head of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and visiting industrial professor in the faculty of engineering.

DSc: Richard Chorley, professor of physical geography, University of Cambridge (1974-95); Donald Perkins, former professor of elementary particle physics, University of Oxford; Richard Leakey, palaeontologist and conservationist.

LLD: Stella Clarke, chairman of the university's council; Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, minister of health in the Republic of South Africa, Bristol graduate; Joanna Foster, former chair, Equal Opportunities Commission; Adrian Noble, theatre director and artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Cliff Morgan, former rugby international, broadcaster and sports patron; Helena Kennedy, Queen's counsel and author; Robert Goff, lord of appeal in ordinary.

MD: Beryl Corner, retired paediatrician, pioneer in the treatment of prematurity.

MA: Elisabeth Leschke, retired schoolmistress and member of convocation; Peter Harris, local historian, former secretary of Bristol Historical Association.

MLitt: Roy Avery, headmaster, Bristol Grammar School (1975-86) and a member of the university's council (1983-95).

STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY DTech: Parmjit Singh, managing director of the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology.

University of Edinburgh DD: Bartholomew I, archbishop of Constantinople and ecumenical patriarch; Ursula King, professor of theology and religious studies, University of Bristol; Choan-Seng Song, professor of theology and Asian cultures, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California; T. F. Torrance, professor of Christian dogmatics, University of Edinburgh, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1976-77).

Doctor honoris causa: John Bellamy, artist; Leonard Wolfson, founder trustee of the Wolfson Foundation; Peter Schwarz, retired vice-dean of the faculty of science and engineering at the university; Ronald King Murray, senator of the College of Justice, Scotland (1979-95), former lord advocate and former vice chairman of the university's court, member of the General Synod Commission on Doctrine (chairman 1992); Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, managing director, Hopewell Holdings, Hong Kong; Thomas Farmer, chairman and founder of Kwik-Fit.

DLitt: George Mackay Brown, author; Moussa Ebrahim Jogee, Scottish commissioner for racial equality.

DMus: Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, professor of musicology and director of the Institute of Musicology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

DSc: H. John Evans, retired director of the MRC human genetics unit, Edinburgh; Bernard Dixon, science journalist and author; Max Birnstiel, director of the Institute for Molecular Pathology, Vienna.

DSS: Christopher Smout, director of St. John's House, University of St. Andrews; Peter Townsend, professor of social policy, University of Bristol; Frederick Barth, professor of anthropology, Emory University.

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery: Ian Aitken, director of the Moredun Research Institute.

MA: Robert Sandilands, retired member of the university's works department.

BSc: Allan Cameron, retired senior meat inspector.