University

15 Jun 09

Christopher Ricks, Oxford's Professor of Poetry, has received a knighthood

Five Oxford academics have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Three were knighted, one was made a CBE and one was made an OBE in the 2009 list. Professor Ian Brownlie, Chichele Professor Emeritus of Public International Law, Fellow of All Souls College, and former member and chairman of the UN International Law Commission, was knighted for services to public international law.

Professor David Hendry, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Nuffield College, was knighted for services to social science. He said: ’I was absolutely delighted and honoured. It was wonderful recognition and I feel proud.’

Oxford’s Professor of Poetry, Professor Christopher Ricks, Fellow of Balliol College and Professor of the Humanities, Boston University, received a knighthood for services to scholarship.

Professor Andrew Ashworth, QC, Vinerian Professor of English Law ,Fellow of All Souls and Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel, was made a CBE for services to the administration of justice.

Dr Alan Milner, Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College and member of the Faculty of Law, was made an OBE for services to good governance in Africa, the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

And Mitsuko Uchida, who will receive an honorary DMus at this year’s Encaenia ceremony, was made a DBE for services to classical music.