Honorary awards

Photo gallery to 1951

There was no provision before 1951 for conferring of honorary degrees by the University of Sydney. A small number of University of Sydney ad eundem degrees were conferred in lieu of honorary degrees. In general the degree of Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum was conferred in this capacity upon members of the Royal Family, Governors-General, distinguished soldiers and leaders of industry ... see full list.

1920

• Captain Allen, President of the Undergraduates Association, reading an address in June 1920 to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), on whom the degree of Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum had just been conferred at a ceremony held in the Great Hall, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives ... More

1927

• His Royal Highness the Duke of York (later King George VI) on whom the degree of Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum was conferred at a ceremony held on 29 March 1927 in the Great Hall, photo, Hood collection, State Library of New South Wales, HA 6634 ... More

1934

• His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester (third from the left) on whom the degree of Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum was conferred at a ceremony held on 23 November 1934, photo, Hood collection, State Library of New South Wales, HA 3547 ... More

1938

Sir Percival Halse Rogers, Chancellor 1936-41, with Viscount Nuffield, on whom the degree of Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum was conferred on 21 February 1938, photo, Hood Collection, State Library of New South Wales.

The Right Hon Viscount Jowitt (Lord High Chancellor of England), and Dean Erwin Griswold (Dean of Harvard Law School), on each of whom the degree of Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum was conferred on 16 August 1951, with Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn in the centre, photo, University Archives.