The
Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the
Sheldonian TheatreThe Sheldonian Theatre, located in Oxford, England, was built from 1664 to 1668 after a design by Christopher Wren for the University of Oxford. The building is named after Gilbert Sheldon, chancellor of the university at the time and the project's main financial backer...
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OxfordOxford is a city, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. The city has a population of just under 165,000, with 151,000 living within the district boundary. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre...
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The lecture series was founded by, and named after, the biologist
George RomanesGeorge John Romanes FRS was a Canadian-born English evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and animals.He was the youngest of Charles Darwin's academic...
, and has been running since 1892. Over the years, many notable figures from the Arts and Sciences have been invited to speak. The lecture can be on any subject in science, art or literature, approved by the
Vice-ChancellorJohn Hood was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 5 October 2004 until 30 September 2009. He was the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body, and the first to have addressed the scholars' congregation via a webcast...
of the
UniversityThe University of Oxford , located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back...
.
- 1892 William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...
— Mediæval Universities (A report of the speech is available in the digital archive of The Nation.)
- 1893 Thomas Henry Huxley — Evolution and Ethics (See also a contemporary review of Huxley's lecture)
- 1894 August Weismann
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin....
— The Effect of External Influences upon Development
- 1895 Holman Hunt — The Obligations of the Universities towards Art
- 1896 Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton was an English historian and bishop in the Church of England. The son of a Carlisle cabinetmaker and upholsterer, he was a gifted child who won scholarships to Durham School and Oxford University...
— The English National Character
- 1897 John Morley — Machiavelli
- 1898 Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS , was a Scottish geologist and writer.- Life and work :Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. The elder brother of James Geikie, he was educated at the high school and University of Edinburgh, and in 1855 was appointed an assistant on the British Geological Survey...
— Types of Scenery and their Influence on Literature
- 1899 Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, OM was a British classical scholar and politician.He was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father was a well-known barrister, and his grandfather a judge. His sister was the social reformer Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, founder of the Home Arts and Industries Association...
— Humanism in Education
- 1900 James Murray
James Augustus Henry Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death.-Life and learning:...
— The Evolution of English Lexicography (Also available at The Oxford English Dictonary site.)
- 1901 Lord Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL , known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869, was an English historian, the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet...
— The German school of history
- 1902 James Bryce
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, OM, GCVO, FRS, PC, FBA was a British jurist, historian and politician.- History :...
— The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind
- 1903 Oliver Lodge — Modern views on matter
- 1904 Courtenay Ilbert
Sir Courtenay Ilbert, GCB KCSI CIE, was a distinguished British lawyer and civil servant.Ilbert served as the legal adviser to the Viceroy of India's Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England...
— Montesquieu
- 1905 Ray Lankester
Sir E. Ray Lankester KCB, FRS was a British zoologist, born in London.An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal...
— Nature and Man
- 1906 William Paton Ker
William Paton Ker was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist.-Life:He was born in Glasgow in 1855. He studied at Glasgow Academy, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford....
— Sturla the Historian
- 1907 Lord Curzon — Frontiers
- 1908 Henry Scott Holland
Henry Scott Holland was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford....
— The optimism of Butler's Analogy
- 1909 Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...
— Questionings on Criticism and Beauty
- 1910 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Bull Moose Party...
— Biological Analogies in History
- 1911 J.B.
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The
Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the
Sheldonian TheatreThe Sheldonian Theatre, located in Oxford, England, was built from 1664 to 1668 after a design by Christopher Wren for the University of Oxford. The building is named after Gilbert Sheldon, chancellor of the university at the time and the project's main financial backer...
,
OxfordOxford is a city, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. The city has a population of just under 165,000, with 151,000 living within the district boundary. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre...
.
The lecture series was founded by, and named after, the biologist
George RomanesGeorge John Romanes FRS was a Canadian-born English evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and animals.He was the youngest of Charles Darwin's academic...
, and has been running since 1892. Over the years, many notable figures from the Arts and Sciences have been invited to speak. The lecture can be on any subject in science, art or literature, approved by the
Vice-ChancellorJohn Hood was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 5 October 2004 until 30 September 2009. He was the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body, and the first to have addressed the scholars' congregation via a webcast...
of the
UniversityThe University of Oxford , located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back...
.
1890s
- 1892 William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...
— Mediæval Universities (A report of the speech is available in the digital archive of The Nation.)
- 1893 Thomas Henry Huxley — Evolution and Ethics (See also a contemporary review of Huxley's lecture)
- 1894 August Weismann
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin....
— The Effect of External Influences upon Development
- 1895 Holman Hunt — The Obligations of the Universities towards Art
- 1896 Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton was an English historian and bishop in the Church of England. The son of a Carlisle cabinetmaker and upholsterer, he was a gifted child who won scholarships to Durham School and Oxford University...
— The English National Character
- 1897 John Morley — Machiavelli
- 1898 Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS , was a Scottish geologist and writer.- Life and work :Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. The elder brother of James Geikie, he was educated at the high school and University of Edinburgh, and in 1855 was appointed an assistant on the British Geological Survey...
— Types of Scenery and their Influence on Literature
- 1899 Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, OM was a British classical scholar and politician.He was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father was a well-known barrister, and his grandfather a judge. His sister was the social reformer Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, founder of the Home Arts and Industries Association...
— Humanism in Education
1900s
- 1900 James Murray
James Augustus Henry Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death.-Life and learning:...
— The Evolution of English Lexicography (Also available at The Oxford English Dictonary site.)
- 1901 Lord Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL , known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869, was an English historian, the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet...
— The German school of history
- 1902 James Bryce
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, OM, GCVO, FRS, PC, FBA was a British jurist, historian and politician.- History :...
— The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind
- 1903 Oliver Lodge — Modern views on matter
- 1904 Courtenay Ilbert
Sir Courtenay Ilbert, GCB KCSI CIE, was a distinguished British lawyer and civil servant.Ilbert served as the legal adviser to the Viceroy of India's Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England...
— Montesquieu
- 1905 Ray Lankester
Sir E. Ray Lankester KCB, FRS was a British zoologist, born in London.An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal...
— Nature and Man
- 1906 William Paton Ker
William Paton Ker was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist.-Life:He was born in Glasgow in 1855. He studied at Glasgow Academy, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford....
— Sturla the Historian
- 1907 Lord Curzon — Frontiers
- 1908 Henry Scott Holland
Henry Scott Holland was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford....
— The optimism of Butler's Analogy
- 1909 Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...
— Questionings on Criticism and Beauty
1910s
- 1910 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Bull Moose Party...
— Biological Analogies in History
- 1911 J.B. Bury — Romances of chivalry on Greek soil
- 1912 Henry Montagu Butler
Henry Montagu Butler was an English academic. He was the son of the Headmaster of Harrow School, George Butler. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he married Georgina Elliot in 1861...
— Lord Chatham as an orator
- 1913 William Mitchell Ramsay
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. He was the first Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oxford University and pioneered the study of antiquity in what is today western Turkey.-Life:Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the youngest son of a...
— The imperial peace: an ideal in European history
- 1914 J. J. Thomson
Sir Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson, OM, FRS was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer...
– The atomic theory
- 1915 E. B. Poulton
Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton was a British evolutionary biologist who was a life-long advocate of natural selection...
– Science and the Great War
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918 Herbert Henry Asquith — Some Aspects of the Victorian Age
- 1919
1920s
- 1920 William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, and professor of divinity at Cambridge. He was nicknamed The Gloomy Dean.- Life :...
— The Idea of Progress
- 1921 Joseph Bédier
Joseph Bédier was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France.-Biography:Bédier was born in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. He was a professor of medieval French literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland ...
— Roland à Roncevaux
- 1922 Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.He is famous for his work regarding the Theory of...
— The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought
- 1923 John Burnet
John Burnet may refer to:* John Burnet * John Burnet , Pastor in Camberwell; abolitionist* John Burnet...
— Ignorance
- 1924 John Masefield
John Edward Masefield, OM, was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967...
— Shakespeare & spiritual life
- 1925 William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE was a British physicist and chemist who uniquely shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, in 1915.-Early years:...
— The Crystalline State
- 1926 G.M. Trevelyan — The Two-Party System in English Political History
- 1927 Frederick George Kenyon — Museums and National Life
- 1928 D. M. S. Watson — Palaeontology and the Evolution of Man
- 1929 Sir John William Fortescue
1930s
- 1930 Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer...
— Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem
- 1931 John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter...
— The Creation of Character in Literature
- 1932 Berkley Moynihan
- 1933
- 1934 William Rothenstein
Sir William Rothenstein, , was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on art.-Life and work:...
— Form and content in English Painting
- 1935 Gilbert Murray
George Gilbert Aimé Murray was an Australian born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century...
— Then and Now
- 1936 Donald Francis Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer and pianist. He is best known for his Essays in Musical Analysis.- Career :...
— Normality and Freedom in Music
- 1937 Harley Granville-Barker
Harley Granville-Barker was an English actor, director, producer, critic and playwright.Born in London, Harley Granville Barker made his first debut and appearance onstage there at the age of 14. His acting work led to increasing discontent with the low standards of the commercial theatre...
— On Poetry in Drama
- 1938 Lord Robert Cecil
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC, QC , known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom...
— Peace and Pacifism
- 1939 Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist, and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....
— Art and freedom
1940s
- 1940
- 1941 William Hailey — The position of colonies in a British commonwealth of nations
- 1942 Norman H. Baynes
Professor Norman Hepburn Baynes was a noted 20th century British historian of the Byzantine Empire.-Career:Baynes was Professor of Byzantine History at University College London from 1931 until 1942...
— Intellectual liberty and totalitarian claims
- 1943 Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis...
— Evolutionary Ethics (50 years after his grandfather gave the lecture)
- 1944
- 1945
- 1946 John Anderson
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC was a Scottish politician who served under Winston Churchill as Lord President of the Council, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary, Due to his service to Government during the Second World War he was often dubbed as 'The Home...
— The machinery of government
- 1947 Lord Samuel — Creative Man
- 1948 Lord Brabazon of Tara — Forty years of flight
- 1949 Claud Schuster
Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, GCB, CVO, KC was a British barrister and civil servant noted for his long tenure as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office. Born to a middle-class Mancunian family, Schuster was educated at St. George's School, Ascot and Winchester College before...
— Mountaineering
1950s
- 1950 John Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE was a British physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power....
— The development and future of nuclear energy
- 1951 Maurice Hankey
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.The third son of R. A. Hankey, Maurice Hankey was born at Biarritz...
— The science and art of government
- 1952 Lewis Bernstein Namier
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is part of modern day Poland.-Life:...
— Monarchy and the party system
- 1953 Viscount Simon
John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC was a British politician and statesman.-Biography:...
— Crown and Commonwealth
- 1954 Kenneth Clark
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation...
— Moments of Vision
- 1955 Albert Richardson
Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century...
— The significance of the fine arts
- 1956 Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH was a British conductor and impresario. From the early twentieth century until his death, Beecham was a major influence on the musical life of Britain and, according to Neville Cardus, was the first British conductor to have a regular international career.From...
— John Fletcher
- 1957 Ronald Knox
Msgr. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English theologian, priest and crime writer.-Life:Ronald Knox was born in Leicestershire, England into an Anglican family , and was educated at Eton College, where he took the first scholarship in 1900 and Balliol College, Oxford, where again he...
— On English translation
- 1958 Edward Bridges
Edward Ettingdene Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges, KG, GCB, GCVO, PC, MC was a British civil servant.Born in Yattendon in Berkshire, Bridges was the son of Robert Bridges, later Poet Laureate, and Mary Monica Waterhouse, daughter of the architect Alfred Waterhouse. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen...
— The State and the Arts
- 1959 Lord Denning — From Precedent to Precedent
1960s
- 1960 Edgar Douglas Adrian — Factors in mental evolution
- 1961 Vincent Massey
Charles Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who, until 15 September 1959, served as the Governor General of Canada. He was appointed as such by George VI, King of Canada, on the recommendation of then Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent to replace as viceroy Harold Alexander,...
— Canadians and Their Commonwealth
- 1962 Cyril Radcliffe
Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe GBE, PC was a British lawyer and law lord most famous for his partitioning of the British Imperial territory of India.-Birth and early career:...
— Mountstuart Elphinstone
- 1963 Violet Bonham Carter — The impact of personality in politics (45 years after her father gave the lecture)
- 1964 Harold Hartley
Sir Harold Brewer Hartley was a British physical chemist. He moved from academia to important positions in business and industry.He was educated at Mortimer College, Dulwich College, and Balliol College, Oxford...
— Man and Nature
- 1965 Noel Annan
Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan, OBE was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic. During his military career, he rose to the rank of Colonel and was appointed OBE...
— The Disintegration of an Old Culture
- 1966 Maurice Bowra
Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954....
— A case for humane learning
- 1967 Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH DL PC , who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician...
— The Difficult Art of Autobiography
- 1968 Peter Medawar
Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS was a British zoologist. Medawar's work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet...
— Science and Literature
- 1969 Lord Holford — A World of Room
1970s
- 1970 Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM was a philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the twentieth century...
— Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament (Broadcast on BBC Radio 3BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music, but jazz, world music, drama and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation Artists scheme...
on 14 February 1971)
- 1971
- 1972 Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is considered one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy...
— On the Problem of Body and Mind
- 1973 Ernst Gombrich
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE was an Austrian-born art historian who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom...
— Art History and the Social Sciences
- 1974 Solly Zuckermann — Advice and Responsibility
- 1975
- 1976 Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch DBE was an English author and philosopher, best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 2001 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100...
— The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato banished the artists
- 1977
- 1978 George Porter
George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry...
— Science and the Human Purpose
- 1979 Hugh Casson
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, KCVO, RA, RDI, was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and influential writer and broadcaster on 20th century design. He is particularly noted for his role as director of architecture at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.Casson's family...
— The arts and the academies
1980s
- 1980 Jo Grimond
Joseph "Jo" Grimond, Baron Grimond CH, CBE, PC was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly in 1976.-Early life:...
— Is political philosophy based on a mistake?
- 1981 A.J.P. Taylor — War in Our Time
- 1982
- 1983 Owen Chadwick
William Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, FBA, FRSE is a British professor, writer and prominent historian of Christianity.-Early life and education:...
— Religion and Society
- 1984–5 Miriam Louisa Rothschild — Animals and Man
- 1986 Nicholas Henderson
Sir John Nicholas Henderson, GCMG, KCVO was a distinguished British career diplomat and writer who served as British ambassador to the United States from 1979 to 1982....
— Different Approaches to Foreign Policy
- 1987 Norman St. John-Stevas
Norman Anthony Francis St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL , is a British Conservative politician, author, constitutional expert and barrister. His surname was compounded from his father's and mother's surnames.-Education:St.John-Stevas was educated at two independent schools, St...
— The Omnipresence of Walter Bagehot
- 1988 Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton was a British historian of Early Modern Britain and Nazi Germany.-Early life and education:...
— The Lost Moments of History (A revised version at the NYRBNYRB can refer to:*The New York Review of Books, a literary magazine.*Red Bull New York, a football team from New York that competes in the United States as a part of Major League Soccer....
.)
- 1989
1990s
- 1990 Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
— The Distracted Public
- 1991 Gianni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat...
— Europe: Many Legacies, One Future
- 1992 Robert Blake
Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake was an English historian. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures...
— Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria (The Centenary Lecture)
- 1993 Henry Harris — Hippolyte's club foot: the medical roots of realism in modern European literature
- 1994 Lord Slynn of Hadley — Europe and Human Rights
- 1995 Walter Bodmer
Sir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the HLA system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human linkage studies. In 1985 he chaired a Royal Society committee which wrote The Bodmer Report; this has been...
— The Book of Man
- 1996 Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he became the first British President of the European Commission and one of the four principal founders of the Social...
— The Chancellorship of Oxford: A Contemporary View with a Little History
- 1997 Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish senate...
— Realizing Human Rights:"Take hold of it boldly and duly..."
- 1998 Amartya Kumar Sen — Reason before identity
- 1999 Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
— The Learning Habit
2000s
- 2000 William G. Bowen
William G. Bowen is President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he served as President from 1988 to 2006. He was the president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988....
— At a Slight Angle to the Universe: The University in a Digitized, Commercialized Age
- 2001 Neil MacGregor
Robert Neil MacGregor is an art historian and museum director. He was the Director of the National Gallery in London from 1987 to 2002, and then became Director of the British Museum...
— The Perpetual Present. The Ideal of Art for All
- 2002 Tom Bingham — Personal Freedom and the Dilemma of Democracies
- 2003 Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, FRS is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.Nurse's mother came from Norfolk...
— The great ideas of biology
- 2004 Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams is an Anglican bishop and theologian. He is the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003....
— Religious lives
- 2005 Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley Marie Tilghman FRS is a scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. Tilghman is serving as the president of Princeton University...
— Strange bedfellows: science, politics, and religion
- 2007 Dame Gillian Beer
Dame Gillian Beer, DBE is a British literary critic.-Career:Born as Gillian Patricia Kempster Burley , Beer studied English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford....
— Darwin and the Consciousness of Others
- 2008 Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concept of microcredit. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank...
— Poverty Free World: When? How?
- 2009 Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party...
— Science and our Economic Future