List of honorary fellows of the British Academy

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. 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."How our Fellowship is organised", British Academy. Retrieved 28 April 2018.

List Names, titles and additional information are formatted as they appear in the cited source(s). Year electedName and additional information1916Rt Hon. the Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM1916Rt Hon. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, GCMG1921Rt Rev. Bishop G. Forrest Browne1922Dr Charles Montagu Doughty1922Rt Hon. Lord Phillimore1923Dr Francis Herbert Bradley, OM1929Rev. Professor A. H. Sayce1938The Viscount Wakefield1949The Earl Russell1950Sir Frederic Kenyon1952Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM1953The King of Sweden1954Senator Luigi Einaudi, President of the Italian Republic1962Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of the Republic of India1976Dr Walter Pagel1978Dr Marc Fitch1978Dr Constantine Trypanis1979The Lord Denning1980Dr M. Aylwin Cotton1980Sir William Deakin1980Sir Geoffrey Keynes1981Harold Macmillan1981Sir Peter Medawar1982A. W. Lawrence1982W. P. Thesiger1983Hon. The Lord Cameron1983The Lord Ramsey of Canterbury1984Professor E. T. Hall1984Professor D. B. Quinn1985Professor K. Glamann1986Dr H. E. Richardson1986The Lord Wolfson1986Professor J. Z. Young1987Dr D. B. Harden1987Professor Otto Skutsch1988J. S. Morrison1988O. C. Tanner"Mr Obert Tanner FBA", The British Academy. Retrieved 1 October 2021.1990Sir Rex Richards1993The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead1994Paul Mellon1995The Lord Young of Dartington1997Sir David Cox1997Sir Kenneth Durham1998Lee Seng Tee1998The Lord Rothschild2000Dr N. MacGregor2000The Baroness Warnock2000The Lord Woolf2002Professor R. A. Hinde2002Professor D. W. Rhind2002Sir Michael Rutter2003The Lord Bingham of Cornhill2004Sir Nicholas Goodison2004The Baroness Hale of Richmond2005The Lord Windlesham2006Dr David Packard2006Dr Lisbet Rausing2008Professor Sir Michael Marmot FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, Director, International Institute for Society and Health; MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London2010Lord Bragg of Wigton, FRS, FRSL, FRTS, Chancellor, University of Leeds; independent writer and broadcaster2011Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, Director, World Wide Web Consortium; 3Com Founders Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory2011Professor Sir Richard Brook, OBE, ScD, FREng, Emeritus Professor, Department of Materials, University of Oxford; formerly Director of the Leverhulme Trust2012The Lord Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge; former President, Royal Society2012Dame Fiona Reynolds, DBE, Master, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; former Chief Executive, The National Trust2013The Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, QC, FRSA, barrister and human rights campaigner2013Robert B. Silvers2014Dame Liz Forgan, DBE2014The Lord O'Donnell, GCB2015Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, FRSA, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford2015Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE, FRSL, Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Manchester Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University; Poet Laureate2015Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE, founder and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique2016Sir Paul Nurse2016Justice Kate O'Regan2016Lord Sainsbury of Turville2016The Honorable Janet L. Yellen2017Dame Antonia Byatt DBE, CBE, FRSL, novelist2017Graça 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 Trust2017George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management; founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations2017Sir 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. "59 new Fellows welcomed by the British Academy". British Academy. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2016. "British Academy New Fellows 2015". British Academy. Retrieved 23 October 2016. "British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows", The British Academy, 15 July 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016. "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research", British Academy, 21 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

Footnotes

Further reading "One Hundred Years of Honorary Fellows", British Academy Review, vol. 28 (Summer 2016), pp. 62–63.