List of honorary fellows of the British Academy explained

The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. A varying number of fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting.^[1] Honorary fellows are "expected to have 'contributed signally to the promotion of the purposes for which the Academy was founded', either as persons of academic distinction in other fields whose work has a bearing on the humanities or social sciences; or as leading figures or philanthropists who have themselves done distinguished work in the Academy's fields of interest or promoted or advanced the causes for which the Academy was founded." Up to four may be elected each year.^[2]

List

Names, titles and additional information are formatted as they appear in the cited source(s).

Year elected	Name and additional information
1916	Rt Hon. the Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM
1916	Rt Hon. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, GCMG
1921	Rt Rev. Bishop G. Forrest Browne
1922	Dr Charles Montagu Doughty
1922	Rt Hon. Lord Phillimore
1923	Dr Francis Herbert Bradley, OM
1929	Rev. Professor A. H. Sayce
1938	The Viscount Wakefield
1949	The Earl Russell
1950	Sir Frederic Kenyon
1952	Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM
1953	The King of Sweden
1954	Senator Luigi Einaudi, President of the Italian Republic
1962	Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of the Republic of India
1979	The Lord Denning
1980	Dr M. Aylwin Cotton
1980	Sir William Deakin
1980	Sir Geoffrey Keynes
1981	Harold Macmillan
1981	Sir Peter Medawar
1982	A. W. Lawrence
1982	W. P. Thesiger
1983	Hon. The Lord Cameron
1983	The Lord Ramsey of Canterbury
1984	Professor E. T. Hall
1984	Professor D. B. Quinn
1985	Professor K. Glamann
1986	Dr H. E. Richardson
1986	The Lord Wolfson
1986	Professor J. Z. Young
1987	Dr D. B. Harden
1988	J. S. Morrison
1988	O. C. Tanner[3]
1990	Sir Rex Richards
1994	Paul Mellon
1995	The Lord Young of Dartington
1997	Sir David Cox
1997	Sir Kenneth Durham
1998	Lee Seng Tee
1998	The Lord Rothschild
2000	Dr N. MacGregor
2000	The Baroness Warnock
2000	The Lord Woolf
2002	Professor R. A. Hinde
2002	Professor D. W. Rhind
2002	Sir Michael Rutter
2003	The Lord Bingham of Cornhill
2004	Sir Nicholas Goodison
2004	The Baroness Hale of Richmond
2005	The Lord Windlesham
2006	Dr David Packard
2006	Dr Lisbet Rausing
2008	Professor Sir Michael Marmot FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, Director, International Institute for Society and Health; MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
2010	Lord Bragg of Wigton, FRS, FRSL, FRTS. Chancellor, University of Leeds; independent writer and broadcaster.
2011	Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, Director, World Wide Web Consortium; 3Com Founders Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
2011	Professor Sir Richard Brook, OBE, ScD, FREng, Emeritus Professor, Department of Materials, University of Oxford; Formerly Director of The Leverhulme Trust.
2012	The Lord Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge; Former President, Royal Society.
2012	Dame Fiona Reynolds, DBE. Master, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Former Chief Executive, The National Trust.
2013	The Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, QC, FRSA, Barrister and human rights campaigner
2013	Robert B. Silvers
2014	Dame Liz Forgan, DBE
2014	The Lord O'Donnell, GCB
2015	Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, FRSA. Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
2015	Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE, FRSL. Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Manchester Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University; Poet Laureate
2015	Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE. Founder and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
2016	Sir Paul Nurse
2016	Justice Kate O'Regan
2016	Lord Sainsbury of Turville
2016	The Honorable Janet L. Yellen
2017	Dame Antonia Byatt DBE, CBE, FRSL, novelist
2017	Graça Machel Hon DBE, Chancellor of the University of Cape Town; President of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; Founder and Chair, The Graça Machel Trust
2017	George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management; Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations
2017	Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL, Playwright and screenwriter; Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre, St Catherine's College, Oxford.

References

In addition to sources cited below, the main sources used to compile the above list are:

• Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. xviii (1932), pp. vii–xi, for all corresponding fellows elected from Foundation to 1932 inclusive.
• The annual Proceedings of the British Academy (appendix for the annual report; for the years 1933–70).
• The British Academy's Annual Reports (for the years 1971–98).
• "Review July 1998 – July 1999: AGM 1999, The Fellowship", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 12 December 2000.
  • "Review July 1998 – July 1999: AGM 1999, The Fellowship", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 12 December 2000.
  • "Annual elections at the British Academy's AGM", British Academy. 7 July 2000. As archived at the Internet Archive on 6 September 2004.
  • "AGM 2001", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 4 August 2002.
  • "Fellows Elected 2002", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 26 October 2002.
  • "Fellows Elected 2003", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 3 June 2004.
  • "Fellows Elected 2004", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 3 June 2004.
  • "Fellows Elected 2005", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 12 May 2006.
  • "Elections to the Fellowship 2006", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 4 August 2008.
  • "Elections to the Fellowship 2007", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 3 June 2008.
  • "Elections to the Fellowship 2008", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 6 August 2008.
  • "Elections to the Fellowship 2009", British Academy. As archived at the Internet Archive on 3 June 2012.
  • British Academy Annual Report 2010/11 (London: The British Academy, 2011), p. 47.
  • British Academy Annual Report 2011/12 (London: The British Academy, 2012), p. 49.
  • British Academy Annual Report 2012/13 (London: The British Academy, 2013), pp. 37–38.
  • "British Academy Welcomes 59 New Fellows". British Academy. 18 July 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  • "British Academy New Fellows 2014". British Academy. Retrieved 23 October 2016.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: About the British Academy. British Academy. 27 July 2016.
2. https://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship "How our Fellowship is organised"
3. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/obert-tanner-FBA-hon/ "Mr Obert Tanner FBA"
4. http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/59-new-fellows-welcomed-british-academy "59 new Fellows welcomed by the British Academy"