A.L. Rowse heads University list in New Year's Honours

Dr A.L. Rowse

Professor Sir Guenter Treitel

A companion of Honour for the distinguished historian, A.L. Rowse, and two knighthoods were among a clutch of awards for university figures, including one for Pembroke College's head chef, given in this year's New Year's Honours List. Dr A.L. Rowse, FBA, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls, has been made a Companion of Honour, for services to history and literature. The historian has spent the greater part of his academic life at All Souls, of which he became a Fellow at the age of 22, but he now lives in Cornwall. His subjects in more than 90 books of history, poems, biography, and criticism have been diverse, but he remains, primarily, a historian of the Elizabethan age. Professor Guenter Treitel, DCL, FBA, QC, who retired as Vinerian Professor of English Law last September, has been awarded a knighthood for services to law. Professor Treitel has held the Chair and been a Fellow of All Souls College since 1979. He is the author of the standard work, The Law of Contract, which is now in its ninth edition. He was previously a Fellow of Magdalen College from 1954 to 1979. The Chairman of the Board of Isis Innovation Ltd, Dr Brian Richards, CBE, was also awarded a knighthood for services to the biotechnology industry. Dr Richards, who was elected Chairman of Isis Innovation, the University's technology transfer and intellectual property company, in April 1996, is co-founder of the Oxford drugs firm, British Biotech, and currently Chairman of Peptide Therapeutics Group PLC, based in Cambridge. Mr Timothy Rix, a member of the Finance Committee of the Delegacy of OUP since 1992, has been awarded a CBE. Mr Rix has had a distinguished career in publishing and was Chairman of Longman Group Ltd. from 1984 to 1990. A CBE also went to Dr Dermot Roaf, a Lecturer in Physics and Fellow of Exeter College. Dr Roaf, the Liberal Democrat leader on Oxfordshire County Council, received the award for public and political service. Mr Martin Biddle, FBA, FSA, F.R.Hist.S., Astor Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Medieval Archeology at Hertford College, has been awarded an OBE for services to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. He has been a member of the Commission since 1984. An MBE has been awarded to Mr Derrick Cox, Head Chef at Pembroke College, for services to higher education. Mr Cox started work in the college kitchens more than 40 years ago as a young apprentice, rising to the position of Head Chef in 1975.