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Honorary Doctorate Degrees Conferred

By Date of Award/Summary by Year/Summary by Degree

Alphabetical Listing

Thomas Perkins Abernethy (Doctor of Letters)
Nicholson Barney Adams (Doctor of Letters)
Theodore Floyd Adams (Doctor of Divinity)
Walter E. Addison (Doctor of Letters)
Charles Beattie Alexander (Doctor of Letters)
William McFaddin Alexander (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander Alison (Doctor of Divinity)
William Allan (Doctor of Science)
E. A. Allen (Doctor of Letters)
S. Z. Ammen (Doctor of Letters)
Benjamin L. Ancell (Doctor of Divinity)
D. L. Anderson (Doctor of Divinity)
Douglas Smith Anderson (Doctor of Science)
Henry W. Anderson (Doctor of Laws)
Matthew Page Andrews (Doctor of Letters)
Moss William Armistead (Doctor of Laws)
Anne Armstrong (Doctor of Laws)
George D. Armstrong (Doctor of Laws)
J. G. Armstrong (Doctor of Divinity)
Oscar Vance Armstrong (Doctor of Divinity)
Richard Armstrong (Doctor of Divinity)
William Waddell Arrowood (Doctor of Divinity)
Thomas A. Ashley (Doctor of Laws)
John M. P. Atkinson (Doctor of Divinity)
Brown Ayres (Doctor of Laws)
Jonathan W. Bachman (Doctor of Divinity)
Newton D. Baker (Doctor of Laws)
L. G. Barbour (Doctor of Laws)
Philip Bard (Doctor of Letters)
Thomas Van Braam Barrett (Doctor of Divinity)
Edward Powers Bassett (Doctor of Laws)
Leon Bates (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Frank Batten (Doctor of Letters)
G. W. Beale (Doctor of Divinity)
Jesse Wakefield Beams (Doctor of Science)
James Edwin Bear (Doctor of Divinity)
Ernest Lovell Becker (Doctor of Science)
James Brian Bell, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Wilbur Cosby Bell (Doctor of Divinity)
Judah P. Benjamin (Doctor of Laws)
Reginald Victor Bennett (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander J. Beresford-Hope (Doctor of Laws)
Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy (Doctor of Laws) 
James Edwin Bethea (Doctor of Divinity)
L. M. Blackford (Doctor of Laws)
Robert E. Blackwell (Doctor of Laws)
Daniel Blain (Doctor of Divinity)
Daniel Blain (Doctor of Science)
J. Mercer Blain (Doctor of Divinity)
Cary Randolph Blain (Doctor of Divinity)
Walter Blair (Doctor of Letters)
George Boas (Doctor of Laws)
John H. Bocock (Doctor of Divinity)
Derek Bok (Doctor of Laws)
Victoria E. Bond (Doctor of Fine Arts)
J. E. Booker (Doctor of Divinity)
Augustus Lea Booth (Doctor of Laws)
Wood Bouldin (Doctor of Laws)
John R. Bowman (Doctor of Divinity)
Reginald Brack (Doctor of Letters)
Gamaliel Bradford (Doctor of Letters)
Vincent L. Bradford (Doctor of Laws)
Edward Cabell Brand (Doctor of Letters)
J. Alfred Broaddus (Doctor of Laws)
John W. Brockenbrough (Doctor of Laws)
William Emerson Brock III (Doctor of Laws)
Albert Compton Broders (Doctor of Science)
F. J. Brooke (Doctor of Divinity)
Cleanth Brooks (Doctor of Letters)
James Moore Brown (Doctor of Divinity)
Samuel Brown (Doctor of Divinity)
Paula Pimlott Brownlee (Doctor of Letters)
David K. E. Bruce (Doctor of Laws)
Helm Bruce (Doctor of Laws)
Philip Alexander Bruce (Doctor of Laws)
John Stewart Bryan (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph Bryan (Doctor of Laws)
Archibald C. Buchanan (Doctor of Laws)
E. C. Burks (Doctor of Laws)
Martin P. Burks (Doctor of Laws)
Martin Parks Burks III (Doctor of Laws)
M. Caldwell Butler (Doctor of Laws)
Harry Flood Byrd (Doctor of Commercial Science)
James Francis Byrnes (Doctor of Laws)
George W. Cable (Doctor of Letters)
A. M. Cackley (Doctor of Divinity)
John Caldwell Calhoun (Doctor of Letters)
Edmund D. Campbell (Doctor of Laws)
Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell (Doctor of Letters)
John A. Campbell (Doctor of Laws)
W. A. Campbell (Doctor of Divinity)
Hadley Cantril (Doctor of Laws)
Nahum Capen (Doctor of Laws)
John G. Carlisle (Doctor of Laws)
Edward W. Carmack (Doctor of Laws)
T. M. Carson (Doctor of Divinity)
Turner Catledge (Doctor of Letters)
George Law Cawkwell (Doctor of Humane Letters)
George Earle Chamberlain (Doctor of Laws)
John Chamberlain (Doctor of Divinity)
Leslie Cheek, Jr. (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Bennett Champ Clark (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Dionysius Clark (Doctor of Letters)
William Mead Clark (Doctor of Divinity)
John William Claudy (Doctor of Divinity)
Lucius C. Clay (Doctor of Laws)
A. R. Cocke (Doctor of Divinity)
William Horner Cocke (Doctor of Laws)
W. G. Coe (Doctor of Divinity)
Harry Scott Coffey (Doctor of Divinity)
John Sanford Cohen (Doctor of Laws)
Fred Carrington Cole (Doctor of Laws)
Almand Rouse Coleman (Doctor of Laws)
Edward D. Colston (Doctor of Laws)
Asbury Christian Compton (Doctor of Laws)
Paul Dulaney Converse (Doctor of Laws)
Fielder Cook (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Elizabeth Helen Cooper (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph Cottrell (Doctor of Divinity)
George Barksdale Craddock (Doctor of Science)
Robert Glenn Craig (Doctor of Science)
W. P. Craighill (Doctor of Laws)
Lloyd Rutherford Craighill (Doctor of Divinity)
John Letcher Crist (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Charles G. Crooks (Doctor of Laws)
Merle D'Aubigne (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles William Dabney (Doctor of Laws)
John W. Daniel (Doctor of Laws)
Josephus Daniels (Doctor of Letters)
Colgate Whitehead Darden (Doctor of Laws)
E. C. Dargan (Doctor of Divinity)
Donald Grady Davidson (Doctor of Letters)
John William Davis (Doctor of Laws)
Richard T. Davis (Doctor of Divinity)
W. E. Davis (Doctor of Divinity)
Westmoreland Davis (Doctor of Laws)
John Henry Day (Doctor of Divinity)
Collins Denny (Doctor of Divinity)
George Hutcheson Denny (Doctor of Laws)
HomerEdwin Derrick, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
William Clyde DeVane (Doctor of Humane Letters)
James H. Dillard (Doctor of Letters)
A. C. Dixon (Doctor of Divinity)
Harold Willis Dodds (Doctor of Laws)
Wendy Doniger (Doctor of Letters)
Rita Frances Dove (Doctor of Letters)
J John Yates Downhan (Doctor of Divinity)
W. F. Draper (Doctor of Laws)
John Wilson Drye, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Richard L. Duchossois (Doctor of Laws)
Edward Theodore Dumble (Doctor of Science)
Melville Irvine Dunn (Doctor of Science)
Jessie Ball duPont (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Henry E. Dwight (Doctor of Divinity)
T. T. Eaton (Doctor of Divinity)
Theodore J. Edlich III (Doctor of Letters)
John William Eggleston (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph D. Eggleston (Doctor of Laws)
Archdeacon Elliott (Doctor of Divinity)
Wade Hampton Ellis (Doctor of Laws)
Mimi Cobb Milner Elrod (Doctor of Letters)
Theodore Hubbard Evans (Doctor of Divinity)
Thomas T. Everett (Doctor of Divinity)
William Maurice Ewing (Doctor of Science)
Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas William Fawthrop (Doctor of Divinity)
James Corner Fenhagen (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Payne Fenner (Doctor of Laws)
Homer Lenoir Ferguson (Doctor of Commercial Science)
John T. Fey (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Herndon Fife (Doctor of Letters)
G. W. Finley (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert McElwee Firebaugh (Doctor of Divinity)
Junius Blair Fishburn (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Junius Parker Fishburn (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Charles Cochran Fishburne, Jr. (Doctor of Divinity)
Jake Fisher (Doctor of Laws)
John Palmer Fishwick (Doctor of Letters)
Herbert Ferrell Fitzpatrick (Doctor of Laws)
John Clement Fitzpatrick (Doctor of Letters)
George Allen Fleece (Doctor of Divinity)
R. H. Fleming (Doctor of Divinity)
Henry D. Flood (Doctor of Laws)
Wiley Davis Forbus (Doctor of Science)
Kenneth Joseph Foreman (Doctor of Divinity)
Alcee Fortier (Doctor of Letters)
Carol Spaulding Fox (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph Carter Fox (Doctor of Letters)
John Hope Franklin (Doctor of Letters)
Vincent Chesley Franks (Doctor of Divinity)
Douglas Southall Freeman (Doctor of Laws)
Francis Pendleton Gaines (Doctor of Laws)
Edgar Graham Gammon (Doctor of Laws)
Paul Neff Garber (Doctor of Divinity)
J. S. Gardner (Doctor of Divinity)
Frank Arthur Geldard (Doctor of Science)
Churchill J. Gibson (Doctor of Divinity)
Frank Johnson Gilliam (Doctor of Laws)
Graham Gilmer (Doctor of Divinity)
J. H. Gilmore (Doctor of Laws)
Abram David Pollock Gilmour (Doctor of Divinity)
Arthur Graham Glasgow (Doctor of Science)
Samuel M. Glasgow (Doctor of Divinity)
William A. Glasgow (Doctor of Laws)
Carter Glass (Doctor of Laws)
Edward Christian Glass (Doctor of Laws)
John M. Glenn (Doctor of Laws)
Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph Leonard Goldstein (Doctor of Science)
George Evans Goodwin, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Armistead Churchill Gordon (Doctor of Letters)
Franklin B. Gowen (Doctor of Laws)
Henry Tucker Graham (Doctor of Divinty)
John Grammar (Doctor of Divinity)
James Grammer (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles H. Grasty (Doctor of Letters)
W. L. Gravatt (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Alfred Graves (Doctor of Laws)
Elmon Taylor Gray (Doctor of Laws)
Jeffrey Gray (Doctor of Science)
Berryman Green (Doctor of Divinity)
Edward Luther Green (Doctor of Letters)
Fletcher Melvin Green (Doctor of Letters)
Charles Sylvester Green (Doctor of Divinity)
Herbert Bailey Gregory (Doctor of Laws)
LeRoy Gresham (Doctor of Divinity)
J. Calvin Grier (Doctor of Divinity)
Duncan Lawrence Groner (Doctor of Laws)
Devall Langhorne Gwathmey (Doctor of Divinity)
John Hall (Doctor of Laws)
Lyman Hall (Doctor of Laws)
Wilbur C. Hall (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton (Dr of Letters)
Charles S. Hamlin (Doctor of Laws)
William Soule Hammond (Doctor of Divinity)
John W. Hancock, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
William Thomson Hanzsche (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander Marrs Harman, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
H. Herbert Harris (Doctor of Divinity)
Elias Harrison (Doctor of Divinity)
James A. Harrison (Doctor of Laws)
Abner McGehee Harvey (Doctor of Science)
Thomas H. Harvey (Doctor of Laws)
Paul H. Hayne (Doctor of Laws)
James William Head III (Doctor of Science)
F. G. R. Henderson (Doctor of Laws)
John Hendren (Doctor of Divinity)
William Wirt Henry (Doctor of Laws)
William Uhler Hensel (Doctor of Laws)
Andrew Herron (Doctor of Divinity)
William Best Hesseltine (Doctor of Letters)
Harold Nelson Hill, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Oliver White Hill (Doctor of Laws)
Omer Lee Hirst (Doctor of Laws)
LeRoy Hodges (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Henry William Hoffman (Doctor of Letters)
Walter Edward Hoffman (Doctor of Laws)
Moses D. Hoge (Doctor of Laws)
Addison Hogue (Doctor of Letters)
Jerome Heartwell Holland (Doctor of Laws)
Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Henry Winston Holt (Doctor of Laws)
Linwood Holton (Doctor of Laws)
Arthur Hopkins (Doctor of Laws)
Farris Pierson Hotchkiss (Doctor of Letters)
Samuel R. Houston (Doctor of Divinity)
James Lewis Howe (Doctor of Science)
Oscar Caperton Huffman (Dr of Commercial Science)
Robert Morton Hughes (Doctor of Laws)
Edgar Erskine Hume (Doctor of Science)
Milton W. Humphreys (Doctor of Laws)
William Jackson Humphreys (Doctor of Science)
John Thomas Trible Hundley (Doctor of Divinity)
J. H. Hundley (Doctor of Divinity)
Gaillard Hunt (Doctor of Letters)
George R. Hunt (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Edward Royall Huntley (Doctor of Laws)
Alton Rufus Hyatt (Doctor of Laws)
Edwin Hyde (Doctor of Laws)
Richard Logan Irby (Doctor of Laws)
Leonidas Willson Irwin (Doctor of Divinity)
Samuel MacCaullay Jackson (Doctor of Laws)
T. M. Jackson (Doctor of Science)
G. Watson James (Doctor of Letters)
Robert Carter Jett (Doctor of Divinity)
L. E. Johnson (Doctor of Commercial Science)
William Preston Johnston (Doctor of Laws)
Carter Helm Jones (Doctor of Divinity)
J. William Jones (Doctor of Divinity)
William Strother Jones (Doctor of Divinity)
William T. Joynes (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Alexander Juhan (Doctor of Divinity)
Daniel Penick Junkin (Doctor of Divinity)
Francis T. A. Junkin (Doctor of Laws)
Marion Montague Junkin (Doctor of Arts)
William F. Junkin (Doctor of Divinity)
James Keith (Doctor of Laws)
Christoph Keller, Jr. (Doctor of Divinity)
Howard A. Kelly (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph Luther Kelly (Doctor of Laws)