Honorary Fellows 2011 programme - Royal Holloway, University of ...

WelcomeSir Andrew Burns KCMGChairman of CouncilProfessor Paul LayzellThe PrincipalWelcome to the 2011 Honorary Fellows Ceremony. Honorary Fellowships are awarded to thosewho have achieved eminence and those who have made an outstanding contribution to the life andwork of the College, or either of the parent Colleges, or to the cause of education generally.This year Royal Holloway will be conferring titles on five Honorary Fellows: Mr L. Preston Bryant Jr,Ms Janice Hadlow, the Lady Heseltine, Professor Fred Piper and Professor Jim Rose.It is particularly befitting that in the year when we are celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the merger ofRoyal Holloway and Bedford Colleges as well as the 125th Anniversary of the founding of theRoyal Holloway College, Honorary Fellowships are awarded to those who have enjoyed a longrelationship with Royal Holloway be it as alumni or staff.The College greatly values its Honorary Members and their contribution to the life of the institutionand hopes that those accepting the honours today find fulfilment for many years to come in theirassociation with Royal Holloway.1

Order of proceedingsPlease be seated in the Chapel by 5.45pm andensure that all mobile phones are switched off.ProcessionsPlease rise for the processionsMusic: I was Glad by Charles Hubert ParryThe audience stands until the Chairman of Councilhas taken his seatOpening RemarksMaster of Ceremony, Mr Chris HoworthDeputy Dean, Faculty of History and Social SciencesWelcomeSir Andrew Burns KCMG, Chairman of CouncilInduction AddressProfessor Paul Layzell, PrincipalPresentation of Honorary FellowsMr L. Preston Bryant Jrby Professor Adam TickellPro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Knowledge Transfer)University of BirminghamFormer Vice-Principal (Research, Enterprise and Communications)Royal HollowayMs Janice Hadlowby Professor Jonathan PowellHead of the Department of Media ArtsThe Lady Heseltineby Professor Francis Robinson CBESultan of Oman Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies andProfessor of the History of South Asia, Royal Holloway4

Musical InterludeThe Chapel Choir sing Gaudens Gaudeboby Peter PhilipsSeek Him That Maketh the Seven Starsby Jonathan DoveDirector of Choral Music and College Organist:Rupert GoughPresentation of Honorary Fellows(cont’d)Professor Fred Piperby Professor Philip BeesleyDean of ScienceProfessor Jim Roseby Professor Felix DriverProfessor of Human Geography, Department of GeographyResponse on behalf of Honorary FellowsProfessor Jim RoseFormer Head of the Department of GeographyClosing RemarksMaster of Ceremony, Mr Chris HoworthRecessionsPlease rise for the RecessionsMusic: Allegro Maestoso e Fuga, from Sonata II in Cby Felix MendelssohnReceptionAll welcome – Picture Gallery5

Honorary FellowsMr L. Preston Bryant Jr was awarded an MA in English Literary Studiesfrom Royal Holloway in 1990. He is a founding member and President of theRoyal Holloway and Bedford College American Foundation. Preston is SeniorVice-President for Economic and Infrastructure Development at McGuireWoods Consulting, where he advises on a wide range of issues includingwater and wastewater facilities, conventional and renewable energy, andcommercial and industrial development. From 2005 to 2010 Preston wasSecretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia and ledthe state’s six environmental, recreational, wildlife, and historic resourcesagencies with a staff of nearly 2,500 and a budget of approximately $400million. In 2009 he was appointed by President Obama as Chairman of theNational Capital Planning Commission, the central agency for all federal landsand buildings in Washington, DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.Ms Janice Hadlow is a Royal Holloway College alumna who has retainedlinks with the Department of Media Arts, which she opened in its revampedvenue in 2005. Since 2008 Janet has been Controller of BBC2. She wasController of BBC4 from 2004 until 2008 where successes included ‘LostDecade’, ‘Inside the Medieval Mind’, ‘Edwardians’, ‘Atom’, ‘Parallel Lives’,‘Blood and Guts’, ‘Arts of Eternity’, ‘Genius of Photography’, ‘The ChatterleyAffair’, ‘Vivaldi’s Women’ and ‘Fear of Fanny’. The channel’s achievementshave been recognised with awards for Non-terrestrial Channel of the Year(Broadcast 2008, MGEITF 2006). During Janice’s tenure, BBC4 createdhigh-profile themed seasons which have transformed the impact of thefactual. Drama grew into one of the key treasures of the schedule and musicprogramming reached new heights of popularity.The Lady Heseltine is a Bedford College alumna (BA French and German).In the 1990s she agreed to be one of the original patrons of the Annual Fund.Anne is an art historian, having taken courses at the Courtauld and Christie’s.She co-ran an art gallery in St James’s and has been a Trustee of the NationalGallery since 2008. Previously she was a Trustee of both the Victoria andAlbert Museum and the Imperial War Museum. From 1988 to 2007 the6

Lady Heseltine was on the Board of Visitors for the Ashmolean Museum,Oxford, becoming Chair of its Fundraising Committee and a Fellow of theMuseum. In 1999 she received the Distinguished Friend of Oxford Awardfrom the University of Oxford in recognition of her fundraising.Professor Fred Piper is an internationally recognised authority oncryptography and information security. Prior to the 1970s cryptography wasregarded as a ‘black art’ practised almost exclusively by governments, themilitary and financial institutions. Fred was one of the main forces in the driveto make cryptography more widely understood not only by practitioners butalso by academics and the general public. Fred was awarded a First ClassHonours degree in Mathematics at Imperial College in 1962 followed by aPhD in 1964. He is Director of the Royal Holloway Information Security Groupthat was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and FurtherEducation in 1998. Fred has served on a number of committees offeringsecurity advice to the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry. In 2002 he wasawarded the first, and so far the only one, honorary CISSP for a European, forleadership in information security. Fred is a member of the Board of Trusteesat Bletchley Park.Professor Jim Rose joined Royal Holloway in 1989 as Head of theDepartment of Geography. Under his leadership the Department became oneof the top Geography Departments in the UK with a worldwide reputation.Within his field of research Jim has contributed to our understanding of howglaciers and rivers shape the landscape and how the landscape has changedover recent geological time, including the discovery of the largest river thatexisted in Britain before glaciations. This discovery subsequently proved to beof significance in providing the evidence for the earliest humans in northernlatitudes, which has totally changed our understanding of human activity anddevelopment. Jim has also acted as member and chair of research councilscommittees, deputy chair of UK and Netherlands Research AssessmentExercises for Geography and Earth Sciences respectively, Earth ScienceAdvisor to Natural England and a member of Council of Royal Holloway.7

Honorary Fellows and Honorary GraduatesHonorary FellowsKate Adie OBEClive AllenSir Robert Andrew KCBSurinder AroraThe Rt Hon The Baroness Bakewell DBETony BathewsProfessor Henry BekerProfessor David J Bellamy OBESir Louis Blom-Cooper QCProfessor Derek J BlundellProfessor Sir Drummond Bone FRSAPaul Bosonnet CBEPatricia BrownProfessor Peter Brown FBARevd Dr Arnold BrowneDr Sheila J Browne CBSusan Bullock FRAMProfessor William Chaloner FRSRobert ChildsElizabeth M ChilverDonald R ClarkeProfessor Sir Ronald U CookeProfessor Sir Peter Crane FRSJanet DagnallRoger DavidgeBruce deGraziaDame Judi Dench CH DBEStuart Errington CBE DLMary EstroThe Rt Hon Sir Terence EthertonProfessor Yoon-Dae EuhProfessor Dame Janet Finch DBE DLNicholas FirthThe Baroness Fookes of Plymouth DBE DLProfessor Norman GowarAlec GrantFather Robert HamiltonDr Richard HancockProfessor Barbara G HardyKitty Hart-Moxon OBEMajid HawaAnna Hemmings MBEDr David Hilling MBEProfessor Dame Olwen Hufton DBE FBASimon HughesSir Andrew Huxley OM FRSHE Edmée LeventisJason LewisEnid LightKevin F LiveseyDame Felicity A E Lott DBE FRCMHilary Mantel CBESir Jonathan W Miller CBEMichael MillerDr Roy MillerAir Commodore Ruth MontagueYazan MuftiDinah Nichols CBKit Oliver OBE DLDr Grace M PageMarigold A Pakenham-WalshProfessor Lionel Pike FRCOProfessor Jack PridhamDr John PrebbleDr Alice ProchaskaProfessor The Lord Quirk CBE FBA8

Helene RaynsfordSir Alec Reed CBEBridget L Riley CH CBEProfessor David G RobertsRaymond G H SeitzSir Neil ShawBrian SmethurstProfessor Alec SmithAnn SteptoeProfessor F Michael L Thompson CBE FBADr Simon ThurleyProfessor A Charles TomlinsonPatricia TomsRita TownsendLes P TurnbullSarah Tyacke CBSir Derek WanlessThe Baroness Warnock of Weeke DBEProfessor Dorothy E C WedderburnRosemary Westley MBEFrancis WheenSid White MBEBarry WintourCllr Geoffrey WoodgerProfessor Katharine J WorthRoger WrightHonorary GraduatesThe Rt Hon Dame Mary Arden DBE LLDSir Peter Bonfield CBE DSc (Econ)Bill Bryson DLitJonathan Burrows DLitProfessor Terence Cave FBA DLitThe Rt Revd Dr Christopher Cocksworth DDProfessor Joe Mordaunt Crook CBE FBA DLitProfessor Hermann Danuser DMusProfessor Whitfield Diffie DScProfessor Pat Easterling DLitDr Frances Fergusson DLitJane Gardam DLitProfessor Tony Garnett DLitBaroness Susan Greenfield DBE DScJocelyn Hicks DScPhilip Hughes CBE DSc (Econ)Sir Mark Jones DLitMichael Kustow DLitThe Lord Laming CBE DSc (SocSc)Dr Raghunath A Mashelkar FRS DScAngela Mason CBE LLDIan McEwan CBE DLitSir Mark Moody-Stuart DScDame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG DSc (Econ)Professor Sir Keith O’Nions FRS DScDr George Poste FRS DScProfessor Dame Jessica Rawson DBE FBA DLitProfessor David Rhind FRS FBA DS (Econ)Prunella Scales DLitDr Charles Saumarez Smith CBE DLitDr Andrew Sentance DSc (Econ)Professor Simon Schama CBE DLitDr Simon Singh MBE DScSir John Sulston FRS DScSir John Walker FRS DScThe Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe DSc (SocSc)Timothy West CBE DLit9

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