22 October 1966

Sir John Adams, CMG, FRS
Austen Harry Albu
Sir Leon Bagrit
Sir Alec Issigonis, CBE
The Rt Hon the Earl of Munster, KBE
Dame Sybil Thorndike, DBE

6 January 1968

Julian Bream, OBE
Professor Joseph Cathala, Officier Legion d'Honneur
Sidney Frank Rich, OBE
Dr Ralph Winton West, CBE (Posthumous)

2 December 1968

Professor Carl Hirsh
Sir William Houghton
Dr Francis Edgar Jones, MBE, FRS
Rt Hon the Lord Nugent of Guildford
Lady Ruth Nugent
Professor Sir Alfred Grenville Pugsley, OBE, FRS

3 December 1969

Sir Harold Montague Finniston, FRS
Professor Sir Michael James Lighthill, FRS
Dr Arthur Douglas Merriman, GC, OBE
Dr Edward John Victor Pasmore, CBE
Dr Beatrice Shilling, OBE

5 December 1970

Professor Etienne Paul Grandjean
Professor Sir George Porter, FRS
The Rt Rev George Edmund Reindorp
Sir Ernest George Woodroofe

4 December 1971

Professor Stephane du Chateau
Sir Edward Fennessy, CBE
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE

1 December 1972

Professor Dennis Gabor, CBE, FRS
Philip Victor Marchant
Dr Charles Garrett Williams

1 December 1973

Yehudi Menuhin
Dr Rendel Sebastian Pease

30 December 1974

Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS
Philip Sydney Henman
John William Penycate

27 August 1975

Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, OBE, FRS
Sir Frederick Lincoln Ralphs
Lady Jackson DBE (Barbara Ward)

29 November 1975

Sir Charles Forte
The Rt Hon Lord Gardiner of Kittisford
Dr Douglas Malcolm Aufrere Leggett
Sir Ronald Wallace Wates
The Rt Hon Viscount Watkinson of Woking
Lt Col Herbert James Wells, CBE, MC

4 December 1976

Sir Kenneth George Corfield
Professor Thorold Dickinson, CBE
Dr Joseph Needham, FRS

26 January 1977

The Rt Hon Lord Robens of Woldingham

3 December 1977

Sir Frederick Charles Frank, FRS
Elisabeth Frink, CBE
Sir Claus Adolf Moser, Comdr de l’Ordre Nat Du Merite (Fr)

1 December 1978

Professor Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf
Sir Ralph Freeman, CBE
Professor William Valentine Mayneord, CBE, FRS

30 November 1979

Sir Henry Frederick Ross Catherwood
Professor Otto Gustaf Edholm
Sir George Robert Edwards, OM, CBE, FRS
Professor Reginald Victor Jones, CB, CBE, FRS
Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal, CMG

28 November 1980

Dr Duncan Sheppey Davies
Dr Eric Duckworth
Vernon Handley
Sir Francis Avery Jones, CBE

4 December 1981

Dr Jack Birks, CBE
Sir Ernest Thomas Harrison, OBE
Dr Richard Hoggart

3 December 1982

John Eveleigh Bolton, CBE, DSC
Professor Sir David Gwynne Evans, CBE, FRS
John Royden Maddox
Sir David Alexander Orr, MC

2 December 1983

Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen, FRS
Viscount Etienne Davignon
Sir Ieuan Maddock, CB, OBE, FRS, FREng
Sir Georg Solti, KBE

7 December 1984

Professor Rosalinde Hurley
Robert Malpas, CBE, FREng
Thomas Irvine Smith, OBE
Sir John Vane, FRS

6 December 1985

Dr ir Hendrikus Ludovicus Beckers
Dennis Joseph Enright
Sir John Harvey-Jones, MBE
Samuel Curtis Johnson

12 December 1986

Anthony Alfred Caro, KB
Dr Ronald Frederick Coleman
Dr Desmond George King-Hele
Professor Sir William Macdonald Paton, CBE, FRS

11 December 1987

Bernard Albert Eastwell, OBE
Dr Kevin William Keohane, CBE
Sir John Emms Read
Henri Charles Vidal

9 December 1988

Professor Ke Jun (Tsun Ko)
Sir Richard Anthony Meyjes
Brian Frederick Street
Sir Francis Leonard Tombs

8 December 1989

Sir Geoffrey Allen, FRS
The Rt Hon Lord Cockfield of Dover
Sir Charles Hugh Reece

6 July 1990

The Rt Hon Lord Wolfson of Marylebone

20 July 1990

John Stuart Bevan
The Rev Dr Donald English

7 December 1990

Sir Walter Bodmer, FRS
Baroness Cumberlege of Newick, CBE
Sir Denis Rooke, CBE, FRS, FREng
Professor Jon Stallworthy

19 July 1991

Professor Paul Joseph Black, OBE
Dr Gerhard Weiler

29 November 1991

Professor George Alfred Hugh Elton, CB
Sir Charles Barnard Groves, CBE
Dr Carole Jordan, FRS
The Lord Rayner of Crowborough
The Rt Rev & Rt Hon the Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon
Leonard John Weaver, CBE

17 July 1992

Academician Igor Semyonovich Kon

24 July 1992

The Very Rev Desmond Anthony Beirne

31 July 1992

Richard John William Alston
Professor Robert Anthony Bernard Leaper, CBE

4 December 1992

Professor Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya
His Eminence Cardinal (George) Basil Hume
Leonard John Kail
Professor Claude Levy-Leboyer
Professor Howard Joseph Newby
Professor Alexander Michael Ross
Professor William Duncan Paterson Stewart

30 July 1993

Professor David Burman Edgar
Professor Alexander Shurbanov

3 December 1993

Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
Zena Oxlade, CBE
Professor Kenneth Packer, FRS
Sir Austin William Pearce, CBE
Professor Roger Penrose, FRS
Dr Heinz Riesenhuber

8 July 1994

Dr Peter Brinson
Geoffrey Lomer, CBE, FREng
Chikahisa Nagai
Professor Yasuharu Suematsu

22 July 1994

Professor Peter Clifford McIntosh

29 July 1994

Professor Henry Chadwick

9 December 1994

Peter Bonfield, CBE, FREng
Bryan Hildrew, CBE, FREng
Dr Zenon Jagodzinski
Professor Anthony Kelly, CBE, FREng, FRS
Dr Alan Rudge, OBE, FREng, FRS
Charles Sandbank, FREng

27 July 1995

Baroness Perry of Southwark

1 December 1995

The Rt Rev Michael Adie, CBE
Dr Cham Tao Soon
Professor Rita R Colwell
Baroness Caroline Cox of Queensbury
Sir Diarmuid Downs, CBE, FRS

1 July 1996

Judith Olivia Dench, OBE

19 July 1996

The Rt Hon Baron Nolan of Brasted

25 July 1996

Monica Mason

20 December 1996

Professor Sir David Davies, CBE, FREng, FRS
Professor Patrick Boulter, FRCSE, FRS

12 June 1997

Professor Ernst-Ulrick Schlünder

13 June 1997

Sir Rocco Forte

30 June 1997

David Miller
Nicholas Serota

23 July 1997

Rt Rev John Jukes, OFM.Conv
(Sir) Trevor McDonald, OBE

24 July 1997

Marilyn Speers Butler
Iona Margaret Balfour Opie

5 December 1997

Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

12 December 1997

Ivor Forbes Guest
Nabil Mohammed Shaban
Sir John Meurig Thomas, ScD, FRS

19 June 1998

Sir Richard Eustace Thornton OBE

3 July 1998

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE

22 July 1998

Professor Hendrick Cornelis Gerard Kemper

24 July 1998

Rev Dr Kenneth Gerald Greet

4 December 1998

Dr Paul Bélanger
Peter Kenneth Blair OBE, FREng
Dr Sam Ramsamy

17 June 1999

Siobhan Davies, MBE

18 June 1999

General Sir Rupert Anthony Smith, KCB, DSO, OBE, QGM
Professor Akito Arima

22 July 1999

Professor John Race Godfrey Tomlinson, CBE

3 December 1999

Mary Patricia McAleese
Professor Stephen Campbell Holt
Sir Richard Sykes, DsC FRS
Dr John Michael Taylor, OBE, FRS

10 December 1999

Margaret Mary Douglas, CBE

3 July 2000

Patrick Caulfield

14 July 2000

Tanni Grey-Thompson, OBE

21 July 2000

Michael David Wheeler

1 December 2000

Ron Dennis

15 June 2001

Sir Eric Ash, CBE, FREng, FRS

2 July 2001

Professor Anthony Douglas Cragg
Jocelyn Herbert

27 July 2001

Michael Marland CBE

30 November 2001

Sir John Parker, FREng, FRINA, EIMarE
Dr Andrew G Rickman

13 June 2002

Dr Alan Hayes CBE
Dr Robert Hawley CBE

17 July 2002

Professor John Stephen Morrill

25 July 2002

Professor John Andrew Sutherland

26 July 2002

Brian Wouldhave Alderson

6 December 2002

Penelope Anne Keith OBE
HE Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
Peter Saraga

19 June 2003

The Hon Judge David Edward, CMG, QC, FRSE

20 June 2003

Professor Michael Baker

Mary Baker

Professor Otto Pick

30 June 2003

David Terence Puttnam Kt CBE

16 July 2003

Gerald O’Collins SJ

24 July 2003

Philip Pullman

25 July 2003

Steven Pinker

2 April 2004

Sir David Martin Brown, FREng

Professor Roger Howard Clarke

Dr Lennart Meri

Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

17 June 2004

Sir Daniel Norton Idris Pearce, CBE, TD, DL
Derek John Thomas, CBE, DL

28 June 2004

Terry Gilliam

22 July 2004

Sir David Attenborough

8 April 2005

Professor Michael Gibbons MBE

Dr Ernest Littauer

Professor David Wood

17 June 2005

Sir Harold Kroto

Alec James Stewart OBE

28 June 2005

Richard Bayliss Hudson

21 July 2005

Nancy J Lane OBE

22 July 2005

Paula Rego

15 June 2006

Professor Patrick Joseph Dowling, CBE

Janet Marion Gaymer, CBE

Professor Jerrold Eldon Marsden

22 July 2006

Brenda Blethyn, OBE

30 March 2007

Claire Rayner, OBE

Sir David Varney

21 June 2007

Thomas Joseph Black

Peter Molyneux, OBE

22 June 2007

The Rt Hon the Lord Browne of Madingley

James Douglas Moir Robertson, CBE

Lord Sainsbury of Turville

4 April 2008

Neil James Kipling

drs Jan Derwig

17 June 2008

Professor Richard Casten

18 June 2008

Professor Jean Hooper, CBE

19 June 2008

Arie de Geus

Sir Ray Tindle

Sir George Martin, CBE

20 June 2008

James Page, OBE

2 April 2009

Professor Peter Bunyan

Martin Earwicker

3 April 2009

Jonny Wilkinson, OBE

24 June 2009

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26 June 2009

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