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Honorary Degrees
Trinity College Honorary Degree Recipients by year. Commencement speakers are listed in bold type.
Degree abbreviations: DD – Doctor of Divinity; LHD – Doctor of Humane Letters; DHum – Doctor of Humanities; LittD – Doctor of Letters; LLD – Doctor of Laws; ScD – Doctor of Science; DFA – Doctor of Fine Arts; DM – Doctor of Music; DST – Doctor of Sacred Theology; DPH – Doctor of Public Health; JCD – Doctor of Canon Law; MA – Master of Arts; MFA – Master of Fine Arts; MLitt – Master of Letters; MM – Master of Music; MS - Master of Science; BA – Bachelor of Arts; BM – Bachelor of Music; BS – Bachelor of Science
Not included: ad eundem degrees
2020s
2024
- Luke A. Bronin, LLD, Attorney, politician, 67th mayor of Hartford
- Sara C. Bronin, LLD, Architect, attorney, professor, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
- Danny Meyer, '80, LHD, Leader, author, humanitarian, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group
2023
- Sidnie White Crawford, 1981, DD, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism, Emerita, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Nicole Hockley, '92, LHD, Advocate for gun violence prevention, co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise
2022
- Lloyd Alexander Lewis Jr., '69, DD, Episcopal Church preacher, scholar
- Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh, '80, LHD, Executive, philanthropist, Trinity College Board chair emeritus
- Raja Changez Sultan, '72, DFA, Painter, poet, journalist
2021
- James Hanley, BA, Co-founder, Cinestudio
- Peter McMorris, BA, Co-founder, Cinestudio
- Francisco L. Borges, '74, LHD, Business executive, politician, former Connecticut State Treasurer
- The Most Reverend Michael Bruce Curry, DD, Bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church
- 1Judy Dworin, '70, DFA, Dancer, educator
- 1Elizabeth Martin Gallo, '70, LLD, Civil rights advocate
- 1Judith Odlum Pomeroy, '70, LHD, Volunteer, counselor
- 1Roberta Russell, '70, LHD, Psychotherapist, social worker
- Jeffrey A. Flaks, LHD, President and CEO, Hartford HealthCare
- Philip O. Geier, LHD, International educator, Executive Director of the Davis-UWC Scholars Program
- Katharine Hayhoe, ScD, Scientist, advocate, author
- Philip S. Khoury, '71, LHD, Historian, educator
1: Honored as first four women to receive undergraduate degrees
2020
A delayed commencement ceremony was held in June 2022 due to the Covid pandemic.
2010s
2019
- Bruce N. Whitman, '55, LHD, Aviation industry executive, CEO FlightSafety International
- Nancy Beth Lublin, LHD, Entrepreneur, author, board chair Change.org
- Samuel H. Kennedy, '95, LHD, President and CEO of Boston Red Sox
2018
- Walter Harrison, '68, LHD, President, University of Hartford, English professor
- Ralph V. Katz, '65, ScD, Researcher in dental medicine and epidemiology, co-author “The Tuskegee Legacy Project”
- William Palmer Scully, '61, LHD, Financial executive, philanthropist
2017
- D. David Dershaw, '70, ScD, Doctor, innovator in health care
- LaTanya Langley, '97, LLD, Vice president and general counsel at BIC Corporation, community leader
- Daniel C. Dennett, LHD, Philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist
2016
- Miriam Colón-Valle, LHD, Founder of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, and stage, film, and television actress
- Michael P. Conforti, '68, DFA, Museum director, art historian
- William K. Marimow, '69, LittD, Journalist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
2015
- JoAnne A. Epps, '73, LLD, Law professor, legal author, and executive vice president and provost of Temple University
- Jon A. Reynolds, '59, LHD, Air Force brigadier general, Vietnam war veteran, vice president at Raytheon Company
- George Allen Weiss, LHD, Philanthropist, chairman/CEO, founder of Say Yes to Education
- James Morris Lawson Jr., DD, Preacher, nonviolent strategist, activist and university professor
2014
- Julieta Castellanos, LHD, Honduran sociologist, activist, Dean of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH)
- Eric Roy Fossum, '79, ScD, Engineer, inventor CMOS image sensor
- James F. Jones, Jr., LHD, Scholar, 21st President of Trinity College
- Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., LLD, Business executive, civil rights activist, U.S. Presidential advisor
- Paul E. Raether, '68, LHD, Executive, philanthropist, Trinity College Board chair
- Katherine A. Couric, LittD, Award-winning journalist, presenter, producer, and author
2013
- Michael Stanley Dukakis, LLD, Lawyer, politician, Governor of Massachusetts
- Margaret Ann Farley, DD, Member of the Sisters of Mercy, professor, author
- Elizabeth Kolbert, LittD, Journalist, environmental writer
- Bridget Mary McCormack, '88, LLD, Lawyer, professor, Michigan Supreme Court judge
2012
- Ward Schenk Curran, '57, LHD, American economist, educator, professor
- Ingrid Mary Mattson, LLD, Professor of Islamic studies, scholar, author
- Anne Fadiman, LittD, Journalist, editor, Yale University's first Francis Writer in Residence
2011
- Michael A. Battle, '73, DD, Diplomat, chaplain, academic administrator, United States Ambassador to the African Union
- Walter John Lamb, LittD, Educator, novelist, author
- Scott Walton Reynolds, '63, LHD, Financial analyst, Trinity College interim vice president for finance
- Patrick Joseph Wilson, DFA, Stage and film actor, director, singer
2010
- Edward Hamilton Cumming III, DM, Musician, conductor, music director of Hartford Symphony Orchestra
- Gary John Dorrien, DD, Social ethicist, theologian, author
- Hannah Susannah Heschel, '73, DD, Scholar, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
- John Clifton Bogle, LHD, Investor, philanthropist, founder of The Vanguard Group
2000s
2009
- Deborah Bial, LHD, Educator, MacArthur Fellow, founder and president of the Posse Foundation
- Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher, ScD, Mathematician, educator, professor emeritus of Trinity College
- Joanna Jeanne Scott, '82, LittD, Novelist and essayist, educator
2008
- Douglas Joseph Bennet, LLD, President, Wesleyan University, political official
- Robert B. Pippin, '70, LHD, Philosopher, professor
- John Emmett Simmons, ScD, Biologist and neuroscientist, professor emeritus of Trinity College
2007
- Christine Burchyett Brewer, DM, Grammy Award-winning opera singer
- William Julius Wilson, LHD, Sociologist, professor, 80th President of the American Sociological Association
- Tom Wolfe, LittD, Best-selling author and journalist
2006
- Shirin Ebadi, LHD, Iranian political activist, lawyer, former judge and human rights activist
- Thomas Matthew Chappell, '66, LHD, Businessman, manufacturer, co-founder of Tom's of Maine
- John Heron Biggs, LHD, Former Chairman, President and CEO of TIAA-CREF
2005
- Judith Mbula Bahemuka, LHD, Sociologist, professor, United Nations Representative
- Thomas S. Johnson, '62, LHD, Financier, philanthropist, Trinity College Board chair
- Henry Kaufman, LHD, Economist, philanthropist
2004
- Edward S. Cabot, LLD, Attorney, professor, co-founder Trinity College Public Policy and Law Department
- John J. Meehan, LHD, President and CEO, Hartford Health Care Corp.
- Denise L. Nappier, LLD, Political pioneer, 82nd Treasurer of the State of Connecticut
- Ruth K. Westheimer, LittD, Social scientific expert on human sexuality, lecturer, and author
2003
- William Chase Richardson, '62, LHD, President and CEO of the WK. Kellogg Foundation, former President of John Hopkins University
- Roxanne Spillett, LHD, President of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America
- Garry B. Trudeau, LittD, Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist and political commentator
2002
- Frank Deford, LittD, Preeminent American sportswriter, novelist, and culture critic
- David Li Kwok-Po, LHD , Chairman and CEO of The Bank of East Asia, Ltd., global philanthropist
- Eugene F. Rivers III, DD, Pastor, nationally-recognized community organizer
- John G. Rowland, LLD, Statesman, Governor of Connecticut
- The Honorable Jane Maria Swift, '87, LLD, Public servant, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Ronald R. Thomas, LHD, Scholar, teacher, former Acting President of Trinity College
2001
- Robert A. Daly, LHD, Leader of Warner Brothers, Chairman and CEO of LA Dodgers
- Daniel Ken Inouye, LLD, War hero, public servant, civil rights, U.S. Senator from Hawaii
- Claudia Jean Kennedy, LLD, Soldier, career intelligence officer, first women to serve the U.S. Army as lieutenant general
- Joseph I. Lieberman, LLD, Legislator, candidate for U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- Martin E. Marty, DD, Historian, author, Lutheran religious scholar
- Mario J. Molina, ScD, Scientist, discoverer of ozone depletion in Earth's atmosphere, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- R. E. Turner, LHD, Entrepreneur, founder of Cable News Network, sportsman, philanthropist
2000
- Richard C. Atkinson, ScD, President of University of California system
- Lloyd N. Cutler, LLD, Attorney, public servant, advisor and council to presidents
- Elizabeth Brenner Drew, LittD, Award-winning journalist, commentator, and author
- Peter John Gomes, DD, Biblical scholar, acclaimed preacher, minister, and professor
- Richard C. Holbrooke, LLD, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, diplomat
- Alfred James Koeppel, '54, LLD, Business executive, civic and religious leader, former Trinity Board chair and interim President
- Nguyen Xuan Oanh, LLD, Economist, teacher-scholar, and architect of Vietnam's new market-oriented economy
- Henry B. Schacht, LHD, Manufacturing executive, philanthropist
- Rose Styron, LittD, Human rights advocate, poet, and journalist
1990s
1999
- Chinua Achebe, LittD, Prize-winning author, professor, and dominant figure of modern African literature
- Ricardo E. Alegría, LHD, Anthropologist, author, professor, father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology
- Stephen John Brademas, LLD, President emeritus of New York University, former U.S. Congressman and Majority Whip
- James A. Calhoun, LHD, Head Coach, University of Connecticut's NCAA championship-winning men's basketball team
- The Ven. S. Chusang Rinpoche, DD, Abbot of Chusang Monastery, spiritual leader and teacher
- Marsha Johnson Evans, LHD, National Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., retired Navy Rear Admiral
- Lorraine Monroe, LHD, Educator, author, founding principal of the Frederick Douglass Academy, Harlem
- Rita Moreno, DM, Award-winning actress, dancer and singer
- Walter A. Persegati, LLD, Former secretary general and treasurer of the Vatican Monuments, Museums and Art Gallerie s
- 1Yo-Yo Ma, DM, World famous musician
- 2William Colón, DM, Grammy nominee, salsa recording artist, advocate/pioneer for Latin music
- 2Leon Golub, DFA, Widely-exhibited artist who addresses issues of violence and misuse of power
- 2Dollie McLean, LHD, Hartford community leader and co-founder of the Artists' Collective
- 2Jackie McLean, DM, Hartford jazz musician, teacher, and co-founder of the Artists' Collective
- 2Susan Clay Meiselas, DFA, Award-winning photojournalist
- 2Patrick O'Connell, '75, LHD, Arts activist and administrator, founding director of Visual AIDS
- 2Tina Packer, LHD, Founder, president, and artistic director of Massachusetts' Shakespeare & Co.
- 2Peter Schumann, LHD, Creator of Vermont's Bread & Puppet Theater
1: Awarded at September 1999 concert, 2: Awarded at November 1999 convocation "The Art of Courage"
1998
- Calvin Otis Butts III, DD, Senior Minister, Abyssinian Baptist Church New York, New York
- Jimmy Carter, LHD, 39th President of the United States, professor at Emory University, chairman of the Carter Center
- Ronald E. Compton, LHD, Retired Chairman, President and CEO Aetna Inc.
- Arie Lova Eliav, LHD, Teacher, author, peacemaker
- Louis Harry Feldman, '46, LHD, Author, professor of classics at Yeshiva University
- Leonard Eli Greenberg, '48, LHD, Business executive, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Jane Pauley, LHD, Television host, journalist
- Herman Wouk, LittD, Pulitzer prize-winning author
- 1Marilyn K. Bergman,DM, Oscar-winning lyricist, President of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- 1Cathleen P. Black, LittD, President, Hearst Magazines
- 1,2Johnnetta Betsch Cole, LHD, Anthropologist, educator, President of Spelman College
- 1Billie Jean King, LHD, Pioneer of women's sports
- 1Susan M. Love, ScD, Surgeon and researcher, best-selling author
- 1Mildred Torres Soto, LHD, Hartford community leader and manager of community affairs, The Hartford Courant
- 1Helen A. Thomas, LittD, White House bureau chief of United Press International
1: Awarded at “Women at the Millennium” Convocation, November 1998, 2: Commencement speaker in 2018
1997
- Douglas G. Brinkley, LHD, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, professor of history, University of New Orleans
- William Michael Bulger, LHD, President of the University of Massachusetts
- Chiu Chuang-Huan, LHD, Senior advisor to the President of Taiwan
- John H. Dalton, LLD, Secretary of the Navy
- Robert F. Drinan, S.J., LLD, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center
- Myrlie Evers-Williams, LHD, Chairman of the National Board of Directors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Luis A. Ferré, LLD, Industrialist, humanist, former Governor of Puerto Rico
- Ellen V. Futter, LHD, President of the American Museum of Natural History
- Béatrice Rosenberg, LHD, Civic leader, philanthropist
- Pierre Rosenberg, DFA, Président-Directeur of the Musee du Louvre, member French Academy
- William D. White, LHD, Former President National Baseball League
- 1Victor Borge, LHD, Musician, humorist, goodwill ambassador
- 1Bent Melchior, LHD, Former chief rabbi of Denmark, human rights advocate
- 2Norman R. Augustine, LHD, Chairman of the Board, Lockheed Martin Corporation
- 2Eleanor Baum, LHD, Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
- 2George Bugliarello, LHD, Chancellor, Polytechnic University in New York City
- 2Lynn Conway, LHD, Professor of electrical engineering, associate dean, University of Michigan.
- 2Joseph Engleberger, LHD, “Father of robotics,” Chairman of HelpMate Robotics, Inc.
- 2Glen H. Hiner Jr., LHD, Chairman and CEO, Owens Corning
- 2Howard St. Clair Jones Jr., LHD, Chief of microwave research, U.S. Army's research and development lab
- 2Henry Petroski, LHD, Professor of history and civil engineering, Duke University
1: Ceremony in September 1997, 2: “Century of Engineering” Convocation, November 1997
1996
- Michael Richard Campo, '48, LHD, Professor of modem languages, emeritus, and founder of the Rome Campus, Trinity College
- Alfred Gottschalk, DD, Chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
- Herbert A. Granath, LLD, President of ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group
- Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz, LHD, Humanities professor, Wellesley College
- Roger Tory Peterson, ScD, Ornithologist, conservationist and artist
- John Ratté, LHD, Headmaster, Loomis Chaffee School
- Strobe Talbott, LLD, Deputy U .S. Secretary of State, Russian scholar and author
- 1Rev. Dr. Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba, DD, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
- 1Rev. Dr. Nyanmeko Barney Pityana, DD, Attorney, Chair of the South African Human Rights Commission
- 2Alice Rivlin, LHD, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve
- 2Rudolph Crew, LHD, Chancellor, New York Public Schools
- 2Rembert Weakland, DD, Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee
- 2Elliot Richardson, LLD, Former U.S. Ambassador, Secretary of Defense and Attorney General
- 2William Donald Schaefer, LLD, Former governor of Maryland, former mayor of Baltimore
- 2William Gorham, LLD, President of the Urban Institute
1: Ceremony in April 1996, 2: “Public Policy” Convocation, September 1996
1995
- John H. Ewing, '41, LLD, New Jersey Senator, retired chairman and CEO, Abercrombie & Fitch
- Fred Fwu-Tyan Ho, LittD, President of National Pingtung Teachers College, Taiwan
- Emily Goodwin Holcombe, '74 DD, Pastor, Stamford First Congregational Church, board member
- Walter J. “Doc” Hurley, Sr., LHD, Hartford coach, school administrator and mentor
- Barbara B. Kennelly, M'71, LLD, U.S. Representative for Connecticut, alumni volunteer
- Edward A. Montgomery, Jr., '56, LLD, Former banker and Trinity trustee board chair, vice president, United Way of SE Pennsylvania
- Denis Francis Mullane, LLD, Retired president and board chair, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
- Borden W. Painter, Jr., '58, LHD, Trinity history professor, ltalian program director, and former interim president of the College
- William Weaver, LittD, Writer, critic, and acclaimed translator of contemporary Italian literature
1994
- Anne Braden, LHD, Civil rights activist, author
- Robert W. Brown, ScD, Physician and President, American League Baseball Club
- Madeleine May Kunin, LLD, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education
- Madeleine L'Engle, LittD, Award-winning author
- Andrea Marcovicci, DM, American actress and singer
- Sidney W. Mintz, LittD, Anthropology professor, Johns Hopkins University
- Robert Bromley Oxnam, LLD, President emeritus, The Asia Society
- Lobsang Samten, DD, Founder and spiritual director, Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center
- Esmeralda Santiago, LittD, Award-winning screenwriter, essayist and novelist
- Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., LLD, Governor, State of Connecticut
1993
- Mary D. Fisher, LHD, AIDS activist, artist, author
- James W. Flannery, '58, LittD, Chairman and artistic director, theater studies, Emory University
- Eula Riley Hall, LHD, Founder and social director, Mud Creek Clinic, Kentucky
- Milton John Hinton, DM, Jazz musician, photographer
- Thomas Lanier Hoyt, Jr., DD, Professor of biblical studies, director of Black Ministries certificate program, Hartford Seminary
- Mark Lamos, LittD, Artistic director, actor, Hartford Stage Company
- Ann Petry, LittD, Author
1992
- Steven Charleston, '71, DD, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Alaska
- Alice Frey Emerson, LHD, President emerita, Wheaton College
- William Kennedy, LittD, Author
- Brendan Kennelly, LittD, Poet, dramatist and professor, Trinity College, Dublin
- Stanley M. Kessler, DD, Rabbi, Beth El Temple West Hartford
- Orlando Patterson, LHD, Sociologist, author, Harvard University
- Joan Argetsinger Steitz, ScD, Molecular biochemist, Yale University
- George Strawbridge, Jr., '60, LHD, Corporate director and educator
- Wilson Wilde, LHD, President and CEO, Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co.
1991
- Rosamond Bernier, LHD, Editor and art lecturer
- James Alexander Forbes, Jr., DD, Senior Minister, The Riverside Church New York City
- Jerome Isaac Friedman, ScD, Physicist, Nobel Laureate
- Clara McBride Hale, LHD, Founder, Hale House Center, New York City
- Henry Dubois Kisor, '62, LittD, Journalist and author
- M. Kathleen McGrory, LHD, President, Emerita, Hartford College for Women
- Charles Osgood, LHD, Broadcast journalist, columnist
- Synn Ilhi, '62, LHD, President, Keimyung University, Republic of Korea
1990
- Gwendolyn Brooks, LittD, Poet
- José Alberto Cabranes, LLD, U.S. District Judge District of Connecticut
- Barbara Clementine Harris, DD, Suffragan Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
- Liu Binyan, LittD, Journalist and author
- D. Holmes Morton, '79, ScD, Pediatrician and medical researcher
- Peter R. Pouncey, LHD, President, Amherst College
- Gwendolyn Miles Smith, LHD, Community volunteer and friend of the college
1980s
1989
- James Fairfield English, Jr., LHD, 16th President, Trinity College
- Elizabeth D. Hay, ScD, Professor of embryology, chair of anatomy and cellular biology, Harvard Medical School
- J. Bryan Hehir, DD, Professor, Georgetown University, counselor, U.S. Catholic Conference
- James Thomas Lynn, LLD, Chairman and CEO, Aetna Life and Casualty
- Edna Negron, LHD, Principal, Ramon E. Betances School
- William Atchison O'Neill, LLD, Governor, State of Connecticut
- André Watts, DM, Concert pianist
1988
- David Allan Bromley, ScD, Professor, director of the A.W. Wright Nuclear Laboratory, Yale University
- Edmond Lee Browning, DD, Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church
- Genevieve Harlow Goodwin, DFA, Philanthropist, friend of the arts
- Eugene M. Lang, LLD, Industrialist, founding sponsor “I Have a Dream” education program
- Andrew Aitken Rooney, LittD, Writer-producer, news correspondent, CBS News
- Sonia Sanchez, LittD, Poet, professor of English, Temple University
- Isabelle S. English, DFA, First lady of Trinity College
- Thomas Aloysius Smith, '44, LHD, Vice president, Trinity College
1987
- John Fellows Akers, LLD, Chairman, CEO and president, IBM Corp.
- Michael Steven Harper, LittD, Professor of English, Brown University
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault, LHD, National correspondent, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
- Jaroslav Pelikan, DD, Professor of history, Yale University
- Ellen Ash Peters, LLD, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Nathaniel Pryor Reed, '55, LLD, Environmentalist, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior
1986
- William Barrett, LittD, Philosopher, author
- Constance Elaine Clayton, LHD, Superintendent of schools, Philadelphia, PA
- David Linwood Coffin, LLD, Chairman, The Dexter Corporation
- Robert Fisher Daniell, LLD, President, CEO, COO, United Technologies Corp.
- Christopher John Dodd, LLD, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- David Elliot Johnson, 1955 DD, Bishop Coadjutor, The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
- Ellen Stewart, DFA, Founder, artistic director, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, LHD, President, University of Hartford
- 1Rt. Rev. Desmond M. Tutu, DD, Bishop of Johannesburg, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
1: “A Time for Reconciliation” convocation, January 1986
1985
- Arthur C. Banks, Jr., LHD, President, Greater Hartford Community College
- Walter Justin Connolly, Jr., LLD, Chairman, CBT Corp.
- Jill K. Conway, LHD, President, Smith College
- Ellen Goodman, LittD, Columnist and author
- Gary Graffman, DM, Concert pianist
- William M. Polk, '62, LHD, Headmaster, Groton School
- Kenyon J. Wildrick, '55, DD, Senior Minister, Community Congregational Church Short Hills, NJ
- 1Guy Carlton Shafer, LLD, Senior executive vice president, Colt Industries
- 1Arthur Winograd, DM, Conductor laureate, Hartford Symphony Orchestra
1: Fall convocation, October 1985
1984
- Bernard Bailyn, LHD, Professor of history, Harvard University
- Clarence Nicholas Coleridge, DD, Bishop Suffragan Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
- Samuel Herbert Evison, Class of 1912, LHD, Former Chief of Information, U.S. National Park Service
- Brendan Gill, LittD, Theatre critic, The New Yorker
- William Henry Mortensen, LLD, First managing director, Horace Bushnell Hall
- Margaret E. Murie, LHD, Conservationist and author
- 1William Gaylord Conway, ScD, General director, New York Zoological Society
1: Awarded at ceremony honoring donation of Enders Natural History Collection, March 1984
1983
- Jewel Plummer Cobb, LHD, President California State University, Fullerton
- Gerson D. Cohen, DD, Chancellor, professor of history, Jewish Theological Seminary
- George Brinton Cooper, LHD, Professor of history, Secretary of Trinity College
- Dorothy Cheney Goodwin, LLD, State Representative Connecticut General Assembly
- Robert Chester Knox, Jr., LLD, Insurance executive
- Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, LittD, Broadcast journalist
- George Wallace Bailey Starkey, '39, ScD, Surgeon
1982
- John Wesley Chandler, LHD, President, Williams College
- Eleanor Jack Gibson, ScD, Professor emeritus of psychology, Cornell University
- Gerald Holton, LittD, Professor of physics and history of science, Harvard University
- Pauli Murray, LittD, Priest, educator, author
- Peter Anthony Rosazza, DD, Auxiliary Bishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford
- Arthur Edward Walmsley, '48, DD, Twelfth Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
1981
- Colin Goetze Campbell, LHD, President, Wesleyan University
- T. Mitchell Ford, LLD, Chairman, president and CEO, Emhart Corp.
- Amalya Lyle Kearse, LLD, U.S. Circuit Judge
- Juanita Morris Kreps, LLD, Educator, economist, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- James Patrick Murray, '43, LittD, Sports columnist, Los Angeles Times
- Morgan Porteus, DD, Eleventh Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
- Theodore D. Lockwood, '48, LittD, 15th President, Trinity College
1980
- Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., LLD, Business leader, retired professional tennis player
- John Bowen Coburn, DD, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
- Tila Maria de Hancock, LLD, Asst. to the Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Develop.
- Robert Donald Kilpatrick, LLD, President and CEO, Connecticut General Life Insurance Corp.
- Lewis Thomas, M.D., LittD, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Mildred Dunnock Urmy, DHum, Actress, teacher
1970s
1979
- John Maury Allin, DD, Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church
- John Donnelly, ScD, Psychiatrist-in-Chief and CEO, Institute of Living, Hartford
- Constance Baker Motley, LLD, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York
- Willis Livingston Mesier Reese, LLD, Professor of Law, Columbia University, Dir. of Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law
- George Frederick Will, '62, LHD, Syndicated columnist and television commentator
1978
- June Jackson Christmas, ScD, Commissioner, New York City Dept. of Mental Health
- Edmund Clayton Gengras, LLD, Chairman of the Board, Transit, Inc.
- Hanna Holborn Gray, LittD, Provost, (Acting President) of Yale University, President-Designate of University of Chicago
- Joseph Thomas Heistand, '45, DD, Bishop Coadjutor, Episcopal Diocese of Arizona
- Peter Van Metre, '50, LLD, Senior Judge, First Judicial District of Iowa
1977
- Carlyle Fuller Barnes, LLD, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Barnes Group, Inc.
- Frank Stanley Cerveny, '55, DD, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida
- Ella Tambussi Grasso, LLD, Governor of the State of Connecticut
- Sister Mary Consolata O'Connor, DHum, President, Saint Joseph College
- Harry Reasoner, LLD, ABC news correspondent
- Sidney Dillon Ripley II, ScD, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
- Ousman Ahmadou Sallah, '65, LLD, Ambassador from the Republic of Gambia to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1976
- Mary Ellen Avery, ScD, Professor of pediatrics, Harvard University
- Ostrom Enders, LLD, Retired business executive and civic leader
- Harry Jack Gray, LLD, Chairman, President and CEO, United Technologies Corp.
- Frank Sidney Jones, LHD, Professor of urban affairs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Robert Shaw Kerr, '40, DD, Episcopal Bishop of Vermont
- Robert Barnard O'Connor, Class of 1916, LittD, Consultant, Kilham, Beder and Chu, Architects
- William Anthony Paddon, '35, ScD, Director of Northern Medical Services, The International Grenfell Assoc.
1975
- Stewart Prestley Blake, '38, LLD, Chairman of the Board, Friendly Ice Cream Corp.
- Loren Corey Eiseley, LHD, Professor of anthropology and the history of science, University of Pennsylvania
- George Mallette Ferris, Class of 1916, LLD, Chairman of the Board, Ferris & Company, Inc.
- Laura Alice Johnson, DHum, President, Hartford College for Women
- Charles Andrew Ryskamp, LittD, Director, The Pierpont Morgan Library
- Kenneth John Woollcombe, DD, The Lord Bishop of Oxford
1974
- Edward Franklin Albee, LittD, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright
- Edward Brill Bates, LLD, President, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
- Irving Spencer Cooper, ScD, Director, Dept. of Neurosurgery, St. Barnabas Hospital, New York City
- John Hope Franklin, LittD, Professor of history, The University of Chicago
- Robert Henry Krieble, ScD, President and Board Chair, Loctite Corp.
- Robert Ray Parks, DD, Rector, Parish of Trinity Church, New York City
- Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, LHD, Professor of classical philology and archaeology, Harvard University
1973
- John Melville Burgess, DD, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
- Shelby Cullom Davis, LLD, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
- Fred Michael Hechinger, LHD, Editorial Board, The New York Times
- Barbara Warne Newell, LHD, President, Wellesley College
- Roger Carson Wilkins, LLD, Board Chair, The Travelers Insurance Companies
- Vertrees Young, Class of 1915, ScD, Retired industrialist, civic leader
1972
- Richard Lloyd Aiken, '52, DD, Dean of Students, The Choate School
- John Moore Kelso Davis, LLD, Chairman, Connecticut Printers, Inc.
- Ada Louise Huxtable, DFA, Architecture Critic, The New York Times
- Lucius James Kellam, '35, ScD, President, Kellam Distributing Co.
- Archibald Mulford Woodruff, LHD, President, University of Hartford
1971
- Bradford Hastings, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Greenwich
- Thomas Joseph Meskill, '50 LLD, Governor of the State of Connecticut
- Frank Stanton, DFA, President, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Edward Allen Suisman, LLD, Hartford civic leader, philanthropist, industrialist
1970
- John Morton Blum, LHD, Professor of history, Yale University
- Francis Goodwin II, DFA, Hartford civic leader
- Harold Clark Martin, LHD, President of Union College, Chancellor of Union University
- Cedric Earl Mills, DD, Bishop of the Missionary Diocese, Virgin Islands
- Henry Reginald Roberts, LLD, President, Connecticut General Insurance Corp.
1960s
1969
- Homer Daniels Babbidge, LLD, President, University of Connecticut
- Stephen Fielding Bayne, DD, Vice president executive council of the Episcopal Church
- Pomeroy Day, LLD, Executive officer and director, Connecticut Bank and Trust Co.
- Robert Anderson Magowan, LLD, Board Chair, Safeway Stores, Inc.
- William Bertalan Walsh, LLD, President and founder, Project HOPE
1968
- Robert Sloan Beecher, DD, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral
- Henry Samuel Beers, Class of 1918, LLD, Trustee, former president and chairman of Aetna Life and Casualty Co.
- George Arthur Boyce, Class of 1921, LHD, Native American historian, former Director of Navajo Education, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
- John Vernon Butler, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, New York City
- Paul Wilfred Morency, LLD, Retired president of Broadcast Plaza, Inc.
- Allan Kellogg Smith, Class of 1911, LLD, Attorney, educator, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut
- Melvin Weismann Title, Class of 1918, LLD, Businessman, distinguished alum and Eigenbrodt Trophy winner
- Jerome Pierce Webster, Class of 1910, ScD, Trustee emeritus, physician, professor, writer
- Albert Charles Jacobs, LittD, 14th President, Trinity College
1967
- John Noel Dempsey, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
- Edwin Deacon Etherington, LLD, President, American Stock Exchange, President-elect, Wesleyan University
- Pauline Seavey Fairbanks, LHD, Headmistress of Saint Margaret's School, Waterbury, CT
- Robert Bruce Hall, '43, DD, Coadjutor Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
- Charles Martin, DD, Headmaster, St. Alban's School, Washington, D.C., Canon of Washington National Cathedral
- Charles Harting Percy, LLD, U.S. Senator from Illinois, Chairman of the Ford Foundation Fund
- Vernon Davis Roosa, ScD, Designer and inventor of fuel injection systems
- Paul Holmes Twaddle, '31, ScD, Cardiologist, professor, Yale Medical School, Chairman, Trinity Board of Fellows
1966
- John Patrick Cotter, '33, LLD, Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
- Right Reverend Ralph Stanley Dean, DST, Bishop of Cariboo, Canada, Anglican Executive Officer
- Albert Edward Holland, '34, LLD, President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, former Trinity College vice president
- Philip Kappel, DFA, Artist
- Karl Fred Koenig, Class of 1929, LittD, Professor of German, Colgate University
- Calvin Hastings Plimpton, ScD, President, Amherst College
- Appleton Hillyer Seaverns, M.A.,'50, LHD, Headmaster, Suffield Academy, Suffield, CT
- Olcott Damon Smith, LLD, Chairman of Aetna Life and Casualty
- Cyrus Roberts Vance, LLD, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Charles William Wilding, '35, DD, Rector, St. John's Church in West Hartford, Trustee, Berkeley Divinity School
1965
- Gladden Whetstone Baker, LLD, Economist, Chairman of the Urban Development Comm., Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce
- Robert Sumter Brawley, LHD, Organist, teacher, Director of Hartford Conservatory
- John Elbridge Hines, DST, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
- Edward Charles Horn, '38, ScD, Professor of zoology, Duke University
- Asger Funder Langlykke, ScD, Biomedical researcher, committee chair on Trinity's new Life Sciences Center
- Franze Edward Lund, LLD, President, Kenyon College
- Clifford Colmer Nelson, '37, LHD, Professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, President of the American Assembly
- Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, ScD, Aeronautical scientist, aircraft inventor and designer
- 1Robert Seymour Morris, Class of 1916, LLD, Businessman, Trustee emeritus, Chairman of the Fine Arts Steering Committee, Trinity College
- 1Charles Hill Morgan, LittD, Professor of Fine Arts, Amherst College, Acting Chairman, Dept. of Fine Arts, Trinity College
1: Awarded at dedication for Austin Arts Center, May 15, 1965
1964
- Kingman Brewster Jr., LLD, President, Yale University
- Howard Hewlett Clark, DST, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
- John Kapp Clark, '36, ScD, Vice president of research, board member Smith, Kline and French Laboratories
- Sherman Post Haight, Class of 1911, LHD, Chairman of the board of E-Z Mills, Inc., book collector
- John Caldwell Parsons, LLD, Lawyer, charter member of the Trinity College Library Associates
- Whitney North Seymour, LLD, President of the American Association of Trial Lawyers
1963
- Robert Bracewell Appleyard, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Greenwich, CT
- Harry Hayden Clark, Class of 1923, LittD, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin
- Milton Hugo Glover, LLD, President, Hartford National Bank and Trust Co.
- Sidney Wilmot Goldsmith Jr., LHD, Rector and Headmaster, Shattuck School, Faribault, MN
- Reginald Herber Gooden, DD, Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary District of the Canal Zone
- James Lippincott Goodwin, LLD, Former president, State Forest and Park Commission
- James Robert Kerr, ScD, President, CEO and board member, Avco Corp.
- Edwin Norman Nilson, '37, ScD, Scientist, Advanced Power Systems Group, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Div., United Aircraft Corp.
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg, ScD, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
1962
- John Crocker, DD, Headmaster, Groton School, MA
- John Doyle DeWitt, LLD, President, Travelers Insurance Co.
- George Keith Funston, '32, LLD, President, New York Stock Exchange, Former President, Trinity College
- Thomas Stewart Hamilton, ScD, Executive director, Hartford Hospital
- Jacob Coleman Hurewitz, '36, LittD, Professor of political science, Columbia University
- Joseph Warren Hutchens, DD, Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
- Donald Frizell Hyde, LittD, Partner, McKenzie, Hyde, Willson, French and Poor of New York
- Joseph Verner Reed, LHD, Executive producer, American Shakespeare Festival Theater, Stratford, CT
1961
- Leonard Dawson Adkins, Class of 1913, LLD, Partner, Cravath, Swaine and Moore law firm
- Francis Boyer, ScD, Chairman of the Board, Smith, Kline & French Laboratories
- Joost de Blank, DD, Lord Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
- Francis Olmsted Grubbs, LHD, Headmaster, Loomis School, CT
- William Persons Gwinn, ScD, President, United Aircraft Corp.
- William Larimer Mellon, Jr., LHD, Founder and chief administrator, Albert Schweitzer Hospital of Haiti
- James Archibald Mitchell, Class of 1915, DD, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Englewood, NJ
- Howard Archibald Rusk, ScD, Founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
1960
- John Baird Byrne, LLD, Bank commissioner, Connecticut, former president and board chair, Hartford-Connecticut Trust Co.
- Leonard Carmichael, ScD, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, former president, Tufts University
- Glover Johnson, Class of 1922, LLD, Lawyer, President of Trinity College National Alumni Association
- Arthur Lichtenberger, DST, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church
- Rainsford Mowlem, ScD, Distinguished plastic surgeon, fourth president, British Association of Plastic Surgeons
- Stuart Thomas Saunders, LLD, President, Norfolk & Western Railway
- Leslie Richard Severinghaus, LHD, Headmaster, Haverford School, PA
- William John Wolf, '40, DST, Professor of theology, Episcopal Theological School
1950s
1959
- Newton Case Brainard, LLD, Chairman of board of trustees, Connecticut Printers, Inc.
- John Nicholas Brown, LLD, Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air
- John Henry Esquirol, DD, Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut
- Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, LLD, President, American National Red Cross
- Horace Mansfield Horner, ScD, Chairman and CEO, United Aircraft Corp.
- Harry Irl Maxson, Class of 1909, LLD, Community and business leader, Dallas, Texas
- John Shapleigh Moses, Class of 1914, DD, Former rector of Christ Church, Andover, MA
- Hugh Compton Riddleberger, LHD, Headmaster of Trinity School, New York City
- George Dunton Widener, LLD, Chairman of the board, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1958
- Roger Miles Blough, LLD, Chairman and CEO, United States Steel Corp.
- Charles Francis Boynton, DD, Suffragan Bishop of New York
- Francis James Braceland, ScD, Psychiatrist-in-chief, Institute of Living, Hartford
- Thomas Neely Carruthers, DST, Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina
- John Ray Dunning, ScD, Dean of Engineering, Columbia University
- Robert Francis Goheen, LittD, President, Princeton University
- Allerton Cushman Hickmott, LittD, Vice president, Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., Hartford
- Allen Northey Jones, Class of 1917, LLD, Financier, Life Trustee
- Harold Leonard Smith, Class of 1922, LLD, Lawyer, Hughes, Hubbard & Ewing, New York City
- Edgar Francis Waterman, Class of 1898, LLD, Former Trinity College treasurer, past president, Connecticut Historical Society
- Thomas John Watson Jr., ScD, President and director, International Business Machines Corp.
1957
- Daniel Alpert, 1937, ScD, Physicist, Westinghouse Research Labs
- Brand Blanshard, LHD, Chairman, Philosophy Dept., Yale University
- William Edward Buckley, M.A., Class of 1927, LHD, History teacher, Hartford Public High School
- Charles Walter Deeds, LLD, Industrialist, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Denison University
- Ethel Collins Dunham, ScD, Pediatrician and pioneer neonatologist
- Frederick Edward Hasler, LLD, Former chairman, Continental Bank & Trust Co.
- Harry Sherbourne Kennedy, DD, Bishop of the Missionary District of Honolulu
- Joseph Anthony Racioppi, Class of 1917, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Bridgeport, CT
- Howard Lane Rubendall, LHD, Superintendent, Northfield Schools, MA
- Charles McElroy White, DHum, Chairman, Republic Steel Corp.
- Lewis Bliss Whittemore, DST, Bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Michigan
1956
- Frederick Augustus Grant Cowper, Class of 1906, LHD, Professor emeritus of romance languages, Duke University
- William McChesney Martin, Jr., LLD, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
- Maxwell Davenport Taylor, LLD, U.S. Chief of Staff of the Army
- Charles DuBois Broughton, Class of 1895, DD, Rector emeritus, Church of the Ascension, Buffalo, N. Y.
- Elden Halford Mills, DD, Pastor, First Congregational Church, West Hartford
- Theodore Otto Wedel, DD, Canon of Washington Cathedral
1955
- John Franklin Enders, ScD, Nobel laureate in medicine
- Karl William Hallden, Class of 1909, ScD, Inventor and manufacturer, Thomaston, CT
- Fred Donald Carpenter, Class of 1910, LHD, Professor of German and literature, University of Vermont
- Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr., LittD, President, Steuben Glass, Inc.
- Frank Diehl Fackenthal, LLD, Acting President, Columbia University, past president, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Frederick Braut Rentschler, LLD, Aviation pioneer, Chairman of the board, United Aircraft Corp.
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, LLD, Governor, State of Connecticut
- James Miller Symes, LLD, President, Pennsylvania Railroad
- Louis Melbourne Hirshson, DD, Dean, Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford
- Robert Johnston Plumb, Class of 1922, DD, Executive secretary, Armed Forces Div., National Council of the Episcopal Church
- 1Perrin H. Long, ScD, Physician and educator, College of Medicine, State University of New York
- 1A. Blair Knapp, LHD, President, Denison University
- 1E. Wilson Lyon, LHD, President, Pomona College
- 1Francis H. Taylor, LHD, Director, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
- 1Lionel Trilling, LittD, Author, critic, professor of English, Columbia University
- 1Peter M. Fraser, LLD, Chairman, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
- 1John A. Krout, LLD, Vice president and provost of Columbia University
- 1Harold R. Medina, LLD, Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- 1Orie Leon Phillips, LLD, Chief Justice, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- 1Carlos P. Romulo, LLD, Philippine ambassador to the United States
- 1Sir Percy Spender, LLD, Australian ambassador to the United States
- 1Kenneth D. Wells, LLD, President of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
- 1Daniel A. Poling, DD, Editor of The Christian Herald
- 1Lawrence Rose, DD, Dean, General Theological Seminary, New York City
1: Awarded at "The Challenges to Liberal Education" convocation, November 10 - 13, 1955
1954
- Raymond John Wean, ScD, Founder, president and director, Wean Engineering Co., Warren, OH
- Frank Davis Ashburn, LHD, Founder, headmaster, Brooks School, North Andover, MA
- Walter Paul Paepcke, LHD, Chairman of the board, Container Corp. of America
- Julius Goebel, Jr., LLD, Director, Foundation for Research in Legal History, Columbia University
- Lewis Gildersleeve Harriman, Class of 1909, LLD, Chairman of the Board, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co., Buffalo, NY
- George David Hardman, Class of 1929, DD, Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Grand Rapids, MI
- Lyman Cunningham Ogilby, DD, Suffragan Bishop of the Philippines
- 1Dwight David Eisenhower, LLD, 34th President of the United States
1: Special convocation, October 20, 1954
1953
- John Blair Barnwell, Class of 1917, ScD, Chief of the Tuberculosis Division, Veterans Administration, Wash., D.C.
- Charles Woolsey Cole, LHD, President, Amherst College
- Karl Fenning, Class of 1903, LLD, Retired professor of law, Georgetown University
- John Jay McCloy, LLD ,Former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany
- Irving Sands Olds, LLD, Retired chairman of the board, United States Steel Corp.
- William Arthur Purtell, LLD, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- Abraham Jehiel Feldman, DST, Rabbi, Congregation Beth Israel, Hartford
- Paul Humphrey Barbour, Class of 1909, DD, Missionary, South Dakota
- James Albert Pike, DD, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York City
- 1Earl Daniel Babst, LLD, Lawyer and industrialist
- 1Prescott Sheldon Bush, LLD, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- 1Robert Livingston Johnson, LLD, President of Temple University
1: Awarded at Inauguration of Pres. Albert Jacobs, May 16, 1953
1952
- George Malcolm-Smith, Class of 1925, MA, Author, assistant publicity manager, Travelers Insurance Co.
- Clarence Newton Wesley, MA, Manager, Walter P. Murphy Foundation, Chicago
- Frazar Bullard Wilde, MA, President, Connecticut General Life Insurance Co.
- Anson Theodore McCook, Class of 1902, LLD, Hartford civic and church leader
- Lucius Dubignon Clay, LLD, Former commander-in chief, U.S. forces in Europe
- Stephen August Hurlbut, LHD, Retired head, Classics Dept., St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
- Frank Learoyd Boyden, LHD, Headmaster, Deerfield Academy, MA
- Helen Childs Boyden, LHD, Headmistress, Deerfield Academy, MA
- Rosemary Park, LittD ,President, Connecticut College for Women
- John Heuss, Jr., DD, Rector of Trinity Church, New York City
1951
- Alfred Napoleon Guertin, Class of 1922, MS, Actuary, President, Illinois Scholarship Foundation
- Robert McClelland Brady, Class of 1890, MS, Businessman
- Beatrice Fox Auerbach, MS, Philanthropist, President and director of G. Fox & Co.
- Alfred Carl Fuller, MA, Businessman, founder Fuller Brush Co.
- Benjamin Franklin Fairless, LLD, President, U.S. Steel Corp.
- John Davis Lodge, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
- Martin Withington Clement, Class of 1901, LHD, Former President, Pennsylvania Railroad
- Charles Francis Whiston, Class of 1926, DD, Professor, moral theology, Church Divinity School of the Pacific
- Robert McConnell Hatch, DD, Suffragan Bishop, Diocese of Connecticut
1950
- Edward Henry Lorenz, Class of 1902, MS, Mechanical engineer
- Jesse William Randall, MA, President, Travelers Insurance Co.
- Edwin Pemberton Taylor, Jr., Class of 1900, MA, Distinguished alumnus
- Clarence Francis, LLD, President, chairman of the board, General Foods Corp.
- Lawrence Augustus Howard, LLD, Lawyer, civic leader, veteran
- Alfred Whitney Griswold, LHD, President, Yale University
- Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, LHD, Writer, Horace Walpole scholar and collector
- Harold Edward Stassen, LHD, President, The University of Pennsylvania, former Governor of Minnesota
- Horace William Baden Donegan, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of New York
- Robert Fisher Gibson, Jr., Class of 1928, DD, Suffragan Bishop of Virginia
1940s
1949
- Isidore Wise, MA, Hartford business, civic and religious leader
- Sydney Dillingham Pinney, Class of 1918, MS, Former Hartford insurance executive, loyal alumnus
- John McKenney Mitchell, Class of 1918, ScD, Dean, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Omar Nelson Bradley, LLD, Distinguished General, U.S. Army Chief of Staff
- Livingston Waddell Houston, LLD, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Thomas Bayard McCabe, LLD, Businessman, Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- John Ellis Large, Class of 1928, DD, Rector, St. Andrew's Church, Wilmington
- Charles Kendall Gilbert. DD, Bishop of New York
1948
- Henry Du Bois Bailey Moore, MA, Industrialist, book collector
- Charles Archibald Goodwin, LLD, Attorney and public servant, Hartford
- Allan Nevins, LittD, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Columbia University
- Dudley Scott Stark, Class of 1917, DD, Rector, St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago, IL
- Frederic Sydney Fleming, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, New York City
- Paul Roberts, Class of 1909, M.A. 1911, DD, Dean, St. John's Cathedral, Denver, CO
- 1Charles P. Taft, LLD, Attorney, President, Federal Council of Churches, Cincinnati, OH
- 2Lauriston Livingston Scaife, 1931, DD, Bishop of Western New York
- 2Francis Bunnell Creamer, Class of 1923, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Detroit, MI
- 2Horace Richardson Bassford, Class of 1910, MS, Insurance executive and actuarial expert
- 2Karl William Hallden, Class of 1909, MS, Inventor and industrialist
1: Open Air Service Address 2: 125 Anniversary Convocation May 16, 1948
1947
- Frederick Charles Hinkel, Jr., Class of 1906, MA, Banker, secretary of the New York Alumni Association
- Francis Stephen Murphy, MA, Publisher of The Hartford Times
- Matthew Edward Dann, Class of 1926, LHD, Headmaster of Trinity School, New York
- Everette Lee DeGolyer, LLD, Oil company executive, petroleum exploration geophysicist, philanthropist
- Leverett Saltonstall, LLD, U.S. Senator, former governor of Massachusetts
- Sir Alfred Zimmern, LittD, Eminent historian, professor emeritus, international relations, Oxford University, England
- Carl Gottlob Ziegler, Class of 1897, M.A. 1900, DD, Rector of Grace Church, Ishpeming, MI
- Harold Everett Sawyer, Class of 1913, DD, Episcopal Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania
1946
- Newton Case Brainard, MA, President of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, former mayor of Hartford
- Murray Hart Coggeshall, Class of 1896, MA, Investment banker, veteran of Spanish-American War
- Arthur Howard Hughes, LHD, Professor of modern languages and Acting President, 1943 to 1945, Trinity College
- Sidney James Weinberg, LLD, Investment banker, former vice chairman, War Production Board
- Vannevar Bush, ScD, President, Carnegie Institute of Washington
- Luther Deck Miller, DD, Chief of the Army Chaplains
- 1Wallace Brett Donham, LLD, Professor of administration, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
- 1Victor Lloyd Butterfield, LHD, President of Wesleyan University
- 1Conrad Herbert Gesner, Class of 1923, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of South Dakota
1: Awarded at Inauguration of Pres. George Funston, February 22, 1946
1945
- 1Stanley Hart Osborn, DPH, Commissioner of Public Health of the State of Connecticut
- Randall Jacobs, LLD, Vice Admiral, Chief of the Bureau of Navy Personnel
- Greville Haslam, LHD, Headmaster of the Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, PA
- Raymond Cunningham, Class of 1907, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, Hartford
1: Special convocation held on February 22, 1945
1944
- James Fairfield English, Class of 1916, DD, Trustee, Hartford Seminary Foundation, Supt. of the Connecticut Conf. of Congregational Christian Churches
1943
- Carlos Blanchard Clark, MA, Former controller of the J. L. Hudson Company, Detroit, MI
- William French Collins, Class of 1893, MA, Newspaper editor, economist, and educational administrator
- Walter Sayer Paine, MS, Manager of the Engineering and Inspection Dept., Aetna Insurance Co.
- Robert Cutler, LLD, Procurement Officer, U.S. Army, Chairman of the National Community Chests and Councils
- Charles Edward Wilson, LLD, President of the General Electric Co., Chairman of War Production Board
- Warren Seymour Archibald, DD, Pastor of South Congregational Church, Hartford
1942
- George Gardner Monks, MA, Headmaster, Lenox School, Lenox, MA
- John Marshall Phillips, MA, Curator, Garvan Collection at Yale University
- William Hutchinson Putnam, MA, Banker, churchman and civic leader, Hartford
- Eugene Edward Wilson, ScD, U.S. Navy veteran, President, United Aircraft Corp.
- Samuel Herbert Fisher, LLD ,Former chairman, Connecticut Highway Safety Commission
- Michael Edward Coleman, DD, All Hallows Church, London
- 1Joseph Clark Grew, LLD, Former ambassador to Japan
1: Speaker, Mid-winter graduation exercises, December 20, 1942
1941
- Charles Edgar Sherman, Class of 1911, MA, Librarian, Providence Public Library, Rhode Island
- Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, ScD, Jesuit priest, American geologist and explorer
- Walter Albert Jamieson, Class of 1911, ScD, Director of biological research, Lilly Co., Indianapolis, IN
- James Ford Bell, LLD, Chairman, General Mills, Inc.
- Eugene Gifford Grace, LLD, President, Bethlehem Steel Corp. and President, Board of Trustees of Lehigh University
- George Catlett Marshall, LLD, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
- Raymond Garfield Gettell, LittD, Former Northam Professor of History and Political Science, Trinity College
- Thomas James Holmes, LittD, Bibliographer, personal librarian for William G. Mather
- Walter Henry Gray, DD, Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut
- Endicott Peabody, DD, Retired headmaster, Groton School, MA
1940
- Philip Bartlett Gale, MA, Patron of arts, philanthropist and industralist
- John Gregory Wiggins, MA, Teacher, expert woodcarver
- Raymond Earl Baldwin, LLD , Governor, State of Connecticut
- Roelif Hasbrouck Brooks, Class of 1900, DD, Rector of St. Thomas Church, New York City
- John Fields Plumb, Class of 1891, DD, Executive Secretary, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
- 1William Augustus Bird, IV, Class of 1912, MA, Foreign correspondent, New York Sun, Paris, France
1: Speaker, Class of 1944 Matriculation Ceremony, October 30, 1940
1930s
1939
- Louis Edmund Zacher, MA, President, Travelers Insurance Co.
- Willard Cole Rappleye, ScD, Dean, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
- Edouard Benes, LLD, Former President of Czechoslovakia
- Charles Welles Gross, LLD, Prominent attorney, Hartford
- William Arthur Heidel, LittD, Greek scholar, professor emeritus, Wesleyan University
- George Lyman Kittredge, LittD, Etymologist, English scholar, Harvard University
- Chauncey Vorhis Kling, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, Troy, NY
- Norman Burdett Nash, DD, Rector, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
1938
- Florence Sidette Marcy Crofut, MA, Connecticut author and historian
- Henry Crocker Kittredge, MA, Acting Rector, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
- Karl Augustus Reiche, Class of 1908, MA, Superintendent of schools, Bristol, CT
- Charles Lincoln Taylor, MA, Honored Hartford citizen
- John Bird Burnham, Class of 1891, ScD, Author, traveler, naturalist, and scholar
- Sir Willmott Lewis, LittD, Washington correspondent, the London Times
- William Appleton Lawrence, DD, Bishop of Western Massachusetts
1937
- John Augustine Hartford, MA, A & P grocery store chain owner
- James Henderson, Class of 1902, MA, Master at St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
- James Jackson, MA, Banker, Treasurer of the Boston Red Cross, Treasurer of Massachusetts
- Stillman Foote Westbrook, MA, President, Community Chests organization
- David Balwin Jewett, MS, Distinguished physician, Rochester, NY
- Jerome Pierce Webster, Class of 1910, MS, Plastic surgeon, Riverdale, NY
- William Wyatt Barber, Class of 1888, MLitt, Greek teacher, St. Mark's School, Southborough, MA
- George Jackson Mead, ScD, Aeronautics engineer, co-founder, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
- Harold Clarence Jaquith, Class of 1912, LLD, President of Illinois College
- Wilbur Marshall Urban, LittD, Professor of philosophy, Yale University
- Charles Norman Shepard, Class of 1891, DD, Professor of Hebrew, General Theological Seminary
- Samuel Harrington Littell, Class of 1895, DD, Bishop of Hawaii
1936
- John Edmund Barss, MA, Latin teacher, Loomis School, Windsor, CT
- Charles Bannister Cook, MA, Vice president, manager, and director of the Royal Typewriter Company
- Josephine Boardman Crane, MA, Patron of literature, art, and music
- Ernest Tener Weir, MS, President, Weirton Steel Company, Pittsburgh, PA
- George Wood Bacon, ScD ,Engineer, Ford, Bacon and Davis, Consulting Engineers
- George Hoyt Whipple, ScD, Dean of the Medical School of the University of Rochester
- Henry Knox Sherrill, DD, Bishop of Massachusetts
1935
- Clarence Everett Watters, MM, Organist and instructor of music, Trinity College
- Samuel Eliot Morison, LittD, Professor of history, Harvard University
- Wilbur Lucius Cross, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
- Francis Patrick Garvan, LLD, President of the American Chemical Foundation
- Maurice Francis McAuliffe, LLD, Bishop of Hartford
- John Insley Blair Larned, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of Long Island, New York
1934
- Clarence Willard Gleason, MA, Author of Greek textbooks
- Howard Greenley, Class of 1894, MA, Architect
- Francis Parsons, MA, Author, Trust Officer, Hartford National Bank & Trust Co.
- William Mills Maltbie, LLD, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut
- Theodore Leslie Shear, LittD, Archeologist, professor, Princeton University
- Melville Knox Bailey, Class of 1879, DD, Author
- William Greenough Thayer, DD, Former headmaster, St. Mark's School, Southborough, MA
1933
- George Donald Harrison, MA, Englishman, builder of organs, responsible for the beauty of our Trinity organ
- Walter Patten Murphy, MA, Railroad engineer, philanthropist
- Albert Milford Turner, MS, Field Secretary of the Connecticut Park and Forest Commission
- John Huston Finley, LittD, Editor of the New York Times
- Frederick Grandy Budlong, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of Connecticut
1932
- Jefferson Shiel, MA, Mathematics teacher, Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, PA
- Morgan Bulkeley Brainard, MA, President, Aetna Life Insurance Co.
- 1Norris Galpin Osborn, MA, Editor, New Haven Journal-Courier
- William Gwinn Mather, Class of 1877, LLD, Philanthropist, industrial leader and scholar
- Kenneth Ballard Murdock, LittD, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
- Charles Adams Platt, ScD, Architect and artist
- Lewis Henry Paddock, Class of 1888, JCD, Chancellor of the Diocese of Michigan
- 1Horace Russell Chase, Class of 1872, DD, Jurist, educator, Rector, St. John's Church, College Park, GA and Church of the Holy Comforter, Atlanta, GA
- Frederick Bethune Bartlett, Class of 1904, DD, Bishop of North Dakota
- James DeWolf Perry, DD, Bishop of Rhode Island
1: Awarded posthumously
1931
- Goodwin Batterson Beach, MA, Investment banker, Latin scholar
- Philip Everett Curtiss, Class of 1906, MA, Author and journalist
- Walter Ralph Steiner, LittD, Physician, librarian of Hartford Hospital and Hartford Medical Society
- Owen Josephus Roberts, LLD, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Howard Chandler Robbins, DD, Professor, General Theological Seminary, New York, NY
1930
- Dotha Bushnell Hillyer, MA, Philanthropist, builder Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford
- Arthur Everett Austin, Jr., MA, Director of the Morgan Memorial, Hartford
- William Gillette, MA, Distinguished actor
- Walter Starkie, LittD, Professor of Italian and Spanish, Trinity College Dublin
- Andrew Keogh, LittD, Librarian, Yale University
- Ernest Henry Wilson, ScD, Keeper of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA
- Samuel Mather, JCD, Industrialist and philanthropist
- John Moore McGann, Class of 1895, DD, Dean of the Cathedral of Western Massachusetts
1920s
1929
- Adrian Holmes Onderdonk, Class of 1899, MA, Headmaster, St. James School, St. James, MD
- Francis Billings Kellogg, Doctor of Civil Law, Former U.S. Secretary of State, author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton, LLD, Former American Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
- George Payne McLean, LLD, Former U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 59th Governor of Connecticut
- Andrew William Mellon, LLD, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Sir Esmé William Howard, LLD, British Ambassador to the United States
- Charles Baker Hedrick, Class of 1899, DD, Professor of the New Testament, Berkeley Divinity School
- William Stanley Barrows, Class of 1884, DD, Headmaster, DeVeaux School, Niagara Falls, NY
1928
- Robert Silliman Hillyer, MA, Poet, English instructor, Trinity College
- Robert Eston Phyfe, MA, Vice Principal, Hartford Public High School
- Robert Hale Symonds, MA, Manufacturer, authority on Ecclesiastical heraldry
- Henry Marvin Belden, Class of 1888, LittD, Professor of English, University of Missouri
- William Douglas Mackenzie, LittD, President, Hartford Theological Seminary
- Frederic Collin Walcott, ScD, Connecticut State Senator, Head of Fish and Game Commission
- George Daniel Olds, LLD, President emeritus, Amherst College
- Herbert Parrish, Class of 1891, DD, Rector of Christ Church, New Brunswick, NJ
1927
- George Meade Bond, MS, Designer of precision measuring instruments
- VanCampen Heilner, MS, Scientist and author
- Luke Vincent Lockwood, Class of 1893, LittD, Lawyer, author and antiquarian
- William Hannum Grubb Bullard, ScD, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission
- Marshall Bowyer Stewart, Class of 1902, DD, Professor, Nashotah Theological Seminary, Nashotah, WI
1926
- Charles Frederick Smith, MA, Chairman, Board of Directors, Landers, Frary & Clark Co., New Britain, CT
- Henry Wood Erving, MA, Vice-President, Connecticut River Banking Co., Hartford, CT
- Edward Jones Pearson, MA, President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.
- Thomas Tertius Noble, DM, Organist, St. Thomas' Church, New York City
- Ansel Granville Cook, ScD, Noted orthopedic surgeon, inventor, Hartford, CT
- James Lukens McConaughy, LLD, President of Wesleyan University
- Preston Brown, LLD, Major General, U.S. Army
- Robert Ernest Vinson, LLD, President of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Elmer Truesdell Merrill, DD, Former Professor of Latin, Trinity College
- John Gardner Murray, DD, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
1925
- Ralph Lyman Baldwin, BM, Director of Music, Hartford Public High School
- Robbins Battell Stoeckel, MA, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, State of Connecticut
- Grenville Kane, Class of 1875, LittD, Attorney, Trinity College Trustee
- David Moore Robinson, LittD, Professor of Greek, Johns Hopkins University
- Lincoln Clark Andrews, LLD, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Treasury
- William Lawrence, DD, Former Bishop of Massachusetts
1924
- Charles Lester Ames, MA, Principal of the Brown School, Hartford
- Richardson Little Wright, Class of 1910, MA, Author, Editor, House and Garden magazine
- Helen Hartley Jenkins, MA, Philanthropist, New York City, NY
- Winchell Smith, LittD, American playwright
- William Cameron Forbes, LLD, Investment banker, diplomat, former governor-general of the Philippines
- James Guthrie Harbord, LLD, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, President, Radio Corporation of America
- Howard Elliott, LLD , Former president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Northern Pacific railroads
- William Le Roy Emmet, ScD, Electrical engineer, inventor
- Burton Mansfield, JCD, Lawyer, banker, former Connecticut State Insurance Commissioner
- George Aaron Barton, DD, Canadian author, Episcopal clergyman, professor of Semitic languages
1923
- John Henry Kelso Davis, Class of 1899, MA, Treasurer, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, CT
- Benjamin Freeman Comfort, Class of 1889, MA, Head of Cass Technical School, Detroit, MI
- Ernest DeKoven Leffingwell, Class of 1895, ScD, Arctic explorer, geologist
- Edmund Sawyer Merriam, Class of 1902, ScD, Professor of chemistry, Marietta College, Marietta, OH
- Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Class of 1885, LLD, Attorney, President, Trinity Alumni Association of Michigan
- Cameron Josiah Davis, Class of 1894, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Buffalo, NY
- Charles Herbert Young, Class of 1891, DD, Headmaster, Howe Military School, Howe, IN
- William Blair Roberts, Class of 1905, DD, Bishop of South Dakota
- 1Charles Harold Herford, LittD, Professor of English literature, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
- 2William Sterling Cogswell, Class of 1861, LLD, Attorney, life member Trinity Board of Trustees
1: Centennial celebration; Prof. Herford is alum of Trinity College of Cambridge University 2: Trinity College Bulletin, 1935-1936 (Necrology)
1922
- Arthur Priest, BM, Organist, Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford
- Archibald Ashley Welch, MA, Vice-president, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.
- Henry Shepard Knapp, MA, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
- Francis Greenleaf Allinson, LittD, Professor of Greek language and literature, Brown University
- Charles Seymour, LLD, Professor of international law, Yale University
- Murray Bartlett, LLD, President, Hobart College, Geneva, NY
- Everett John Lake, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
- Robert Burton Gooden, Class of 1902, DD, Headmaster, Harvard Preparatory School, Los Angeles, CA
- William Agur Beardsley, Class of 1887, DD ,Rector, St. Thomas's Church, New Haven, CT
- Charles Lewis Slattery, DD, Coadjutor bishop, Massachusetts Protestant Episcopal diocese
1921
- Charles Edward Chase, MA, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
- Edward Milligan, MA, President, Phoenix Fire Insurance Co.
- Magnus Wilhelm Alexander, MS, Consulting engineer, General Electric Co.
- John Spencer Camp, DM, Organist and choirmaster, Center Church, Hartford
- Frank Gardner Moore, LittD, Professor of Latin, Columbia University
- William Barclay Parsons, ScD, Chief engineer, New York Rapid Transit Commission
- Vittorio Rolandi Ricci, LLD, Italian Ambassador to the United States
- Edward Taylor Sullivan, Class of 1889, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, Newton Center, MA
- John Williams Nichols, Class of 1899, DD, Dean of the School of Theology of St. John's University, Shanghai, China
- Philip Cook, Class of 1898, DD, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware
1920
- Albert Carlos Bates, MA, Librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society
- 1Munsey Lew, Class of 1913, MS, Survey engineer, Chihli River Commission, Tientsin, China
- Robert Peck Bates, Class of 1893, LittD, Headmaster of the Chicago Latin School
- George Emerson Quaile, LittD, Headmaster of the Salisbury School, Salisbury, CT
- George Watson Cole, LittD, Bibliographer and librarian for Henry E. Huntington, Esq.
- Philip James McCook, Class of 1895, LLD, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
- Arthur Woods, LLD, Former Police Commissioner of New York, Colonel, Div. of Military Aeronautics, U.S. War Department
- John Marshall Holcombe, LLD, President of the Phoenix Mutual Life insurance Co.
- Robert Baird Riggs, ScD, Professor of chemistry, Trinity College
- Matthew George Thompson, DD, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Greenwich, CT
1: in absentia
1910s
1919
- Calvin Duvall Cowles, MA, Former commandant, Trinity College Student Army Training Corps
- George Seymour Godard, MA, State Librarian of Connecticut
- Arthur Foote, DM, Distinguished American composer, organist, and teacher
- Bliss Carman, LittD, Poet and litterateur
- William Bowie, Class of 1893, ScD, Engineer, Chief of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Frederick Perry Fish, ScD, Former president, American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
- Franklin Knight Lane, ScD, Secretary of the Interior
- William Scoville Case, LLD, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Percival Wood Clement, Class of 1868, LLD, Governor of Vermont
- 1Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, LLD, President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic
- Elbert Henry Gary, LLD, President, United States Steel Corp.
- Clarence Ransom Edwards, LLD, Commander of the Twenty-Sixth Division, U.S. Army
- Charles Otis Scoville, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, New Haven, CT
1: in absentia
1918
- William Butler Davis, BM, Organist and choirmaster, Holy Trinity Church, Middletown, CT
- Nathaniel Horton Batchelder, MA, Headmaster, Loomis Institute, Windsor, CT
- Meigs Haywood Whaples, MA, President, Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Hartford, CT
- Russell Jordan Coles, ScD, American sportsman, naturalist and tobacco trader
- George Shiras, III, ScD, Field naturalist, former U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- Theodore Roosevelt, ScD, 26th President of the United States
- George Wharton Pepper, JCD, Prominent Philadelphia lawyer, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- John Pierpont Morgan, LLD, Banker, finance executive, philanthropist, trustee of Trinity College
- Charles Lathrop Pack, LLD, Forester, Superintendent of the National War Garden Commission
- Edward Schofield Travers, Class of 1898, DD , Rector, Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, PA
- Karl Reiland, Class of 1897, DD, Rector of St. George's Church, New York City
- Granville Hudson Sherwood, Class of 1900, DD, Bishop of Springfield, Illinois
- Paul Matthews, DD, Bishop of New Jersey
1917
- Frank Butler Gay, MA, Librarian of the Watkinson Library, Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
- Thomas Willing Balch, LittD, Lawyer, publicist, writer
- 1John Bakewell, Class of 1859, DD, Rector emeritus, Trinity Church, Oakland, CA
- 2Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, LLD, Former Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator
1: in absentia 2: Trinity Tripod, Commencement Issue, June 22, 1917
1916
- 1Francis Cutler Marshall, MA, Major, United States Army
- William Wyatt Barber, Class of 1888, MA, Greek teacher, St. Mark's School, Southboro, MA
- Richard Allyn White, CLass of 1881, MA, General Auditor of the New York Central Lines Railroad
- Henry Campbell Black, Class of 1880 LLD, Lawyer, author of Black's Law Dictionary
- Morris Woodruff Seymour, LLD, Distinguished attorney, judge, former Connecticut State Senator
- Samuel Walker McCall, LLD, Governor of Massachusetts
- Edward Clowes Chorley, DD ,Rector, St. Philip's Church-in-the-Highlands, Garrison, NY
- 2Joseph Blount Cheshire, Class of 1869, DD, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina
- 3James Carter Knox, DM, Organist, choirmaster, Saint Paul's School, Concord, NH
- 3Edward Campion Acheson, Doctor of Sacred Divinity, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut
1: in absentia, 2: Awarded in 1914 but unable to attend, 3: Awarded on Founders' and Benefactors' Day, November 1, 1916
1915
- Leigh Robinson Gignilliat, MA, Superintendent, Culver Military Academy, Culver, IN
- 1Orville Wright, ScD, American aviation pioneer
- William Newnham Chattin Carlton, LittD, Director of the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, former librarian at Trinity College
- Marcus Hensey Holcomb, LLD, 66th Governor of Connectiut, former judge, Superior Court of Connecticut
1: in absentia
1914
- Henry Archelaus Tirrell, MA, Principal, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT
- Harry Edward Whitney, Class of 1874, LittD, Principal, Shattuck School, Faribault, MN
- Edward Pearsons Newton, Class of 1881, DD, Rector, St. James' Church, Hyde Park, NY
- Charles Ewell Craik, Class of 1874, DD, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY
1913
- Benedict Devine Flynn, Class of 1905, MA, Actuary, Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford, CT
- Karl Reiland, Class of 1897, MA, Rector of St. George's Church, New York City
- Louis Welton Downes, Class of 1888, ScD, Engineer, inventor, founder of Downes Clock Tower
- John Henry Hobart Lyon, LittD, Headmaster, Shattuck School, Faribault, MN
- Clarence Eugene Woodman, CLass of 1873, LittD, Paulist priest and prominent Catholic scientist
- Samuel Oscar Prentice, LLD, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut
1912
- William Tyler Olcott, Class of 1896, MA, Amateur astronomer, author
- Otis Grant Hammond, Class of 1892, MA, Assistant State Librarian, New Hampshire
- Edward Cullen Niles, Class of 1887, MA, Chairman of the Public Service Commission of New Hampshire
- Edward Laurence Smith, MA, Judge, former mayor of Hartford
- Clement Collester Hyde, LittD, Principal, Hartford Public High School
- Henry Spackman Pancoast, LittD, Author, instructor of English literature, co-founder, Indian Rights Association
- Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, LLD, Director of the Carnegie Technical Schools, Pittsburg, PA
- Edwin Pond Parker, LLD, Pastor emeritus, South Congregational Church, Hartford
- Joseph Hopkins Twichell, LLD, Pastor, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford
- Frederick Ferdinand Kramer, Class of 1889, DD, Warden of Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, MN
- Ernest DeFremery Miel, Class of 1888, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, Hartford
- Octavius Applegate, Class of 1887, DD, Rector, Grace Church, Utica, NY
1911
- George Munson Curtis, Class of 1879, MA, Historian, treasurer, International Silver Co., Meriden, CT
- Frank Chester Sumner, MA, Treasurer and trustee, Hartford Trust Company
- Caroline Maria Hewins, MA, Librarian of the Hartford Public Library and the first woman to receive a degree from Trinity College
- Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, ScD, Acclaimed American architect
- Masujiro Honda, LittD, Translator, editor of Oriental Review in New York
- Edwin Augustine White, JCD, Rector of Christ Church, Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, NJ
- Theodore Payne Thurston, Class of 1891, DD, Bishop of Eastern Oklahoma
- James Goodwin, Class of 1886, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Hartford
1910
- Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge, Class of 1883, ScD, Architect, founding partner, Trowbridge and Livingston architectural firm
- Samuel Smith Drury, LittD, Rector-designate, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
- William Beach Olmsted, Class of 1887, LittD, Headmaster, Pomfret School, Pomfret, CT
- Charles Hopkins Clark, LittD, Editor-in-chief, Hartford Courant
- James Junius Goodwin, LLD, Businessman, Hartford civic leader
- John James McCook, Class of 1863, LLD, Professor of modern languages, Trinity College, Rector, St. John's Church, East Hartford
- William Arnold Shanklin, LLD, President of Wesleyan University
- Hugh Birckhead, DD, Rector of St. George's Church, New York
- John Taylor Huntington, CLass of 1850, DD, Former professor of Greek at Trinity, now Rector, St. James' Church, Hartford
1900s
1909
- James Shepard, MA, Patent expert and historian
- Louis McClellan Potter, Class of 1896, MA, Artist and sculptor
- Charles Frederick Johnson, LLD, poet, Professor emeritus of English literature, Trinity College
- Duncan Black Macdonald, DD, Professor of Semitic languages, Hartford Theological Seminary
- James Jackson, DD, President of Boone College, Wuchang, China
1908
- Charles Edward Caldwell, Class of 1882, MA, Physician, Cincinnati, OH
- Flavel Sweeten Luther, Sr., MA, Father of Trinity College President Flavel Sweeten Luther
- Lorin Webster, Class of 1880, LittD, Rector, Holderness School, Plymouth, NH
- Charles Christopher Trowbridge, Class of 1892, ScD, Instructor in physics, Columbia University
- Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Class of 1889, ScD, Famed American astronomer, founder of discipline of dendrochronology
- Lawson Purdy, Class of 1884, LLD, Taxation expert, president of the New York City Department of Taxes and Assessments
- James Ewing Mears, Class of 1858, LLD, Physician, surgeon and author
- Oliver Henry Raftery, Class of 1873, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Portland, CT, Archdeacon of Middlesex
1907
- William Bowie, Class of 1893, MA, Engineer, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Edward D. Tibbits, LittD, Headmaster, Hoosac School, Hoosick, NY
- George W. Guthrie, LLD, Mayor of Pittsburgh
- Winfred Robert Martin, LLD, Librarian, Hispanic Society, New York City, former professor of Oriental languages, Trinity College
- John Dows Hills, Class of 1878, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Oil City, PA
1906
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Class of 1895, MA, Distinguished physician, Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton, PA
- Benjamin Wistar Morris, Class of 1893, MA, Architect, Morris and O'Connor, New York
- William Franklin Henney, LLD, Mayor of Hartford
- William Gilbert Davies, Class of 1860, LLD, New York attorney, served with the National Guard, New York, 22d Regiment, Gettysburg campaign
- Frederick Foote Johnson, Class of 1894, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of South Dakota
- Samuel Farmar Jarvis, Class of 1845, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Brooklyn, CT
1905
- Frank Henry Church, Class of 1882, MA, Curate, Trinity Chapel, New York
- Charles McLean Andrews, Class of 1884, LHD, Professor of history, Bryn Mawr College
- Josiah Cleaveland Cady, Class of 1861, LLD, Architect, firm of Cady, Berg & See, New York City
- Edwin Cortlandt Bolles, Class of 1855, LLD, Universalist pastor, professor of English and American history, Tufts College
- Charles Emmett Graves, Class of 1850, LLD ,Treasurer of Trinity College
- Gordon Wadsworth Russell, Class of 1834, LLD, Physician, historian, New Haven, CT
- Rufus Emery, Class of 1854, DD, Former rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Newburgh, NY
- Edward Staples Drown, DD, Theologian, educator, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, MA
1904
- Ernest Flagg Henderson, Class of 1882, LHD, Author and historian
- John Scarborough, Class of 1854, LLD, Bishop of New Jersey
- Jacob Lyman Greene, LLD, President, Connecticut Life Insurance Co., trustee of Trinity College
- Flavel Sweeten Luther, Class of 1870, LLD, President of Trinity College
- Horace Baldwin Hitchings, Class of 1854, DD, Rector emeritus, Cathedral Church of St. John, Denver, CO
- Richard Henry Nelson, Class of 1880, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Albany
- Stewart Means, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, New Haven, CT
- Edward Staples Drown, DD, Theologian, educator, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, MA
1903
- Forrest Morgan, MA, Writer, litterateur, assistant librarian, Watkinson Library
- Earle Terry Smith, MA, Noted Connecticut ophthalmologist
- Edward Sims Van Zile, Class of 1884, LHD, American writer
- Sydney George Fisher, Class of 1879, LLD, Lawyer, historian and author, trustee of Trinity College.
- William Short, Class of 1869, DD, Pastor, St. Peter's Church, St. Louis, MO
- George Brinley Morgan, Class of 1870, DD, Rector, Christ Church, New Haven, CT
1902
- William Newnham Chattin Carlton, MA, Librarian of Trinity College
- James Russell Parsons, Jr., Class of 1881, LLD, Consul-General to Mexico
- Luke A. Lockwood, Class of 1855, LLD, Attorney, community leader, trustee of Trinity College
- William Edmond Curtis, Class of 1875, LLD, Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Treasury, former Trinity College trustee
- William Lispenard Robb, LLD, Consulting electrical engineer, professor of physics, Trinity College
- Richard Eugene Burton, Class of 1883, LHD, Poet, author, head of the English department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Clarence Griffin Child, Class of 1886, LHD, Instructor in English, University of Pennsylvania, specialist in medieval English
- Alfred Harding, Class of 1879, DD, Rector, St. Paul's, Washington, D.C.
- Frederick William Harriman, Class of 1872, DD, Rector, Grace Church, Windsor, CT
- Francis Goodwin, Class of 1863 (hon), DD, Former archdeacon of Hartford, trustee of Trinity College, commissioner, Hartford Parks Commission
1901
- Joseph Horace Goodspeed, Class of 1886, MA, Treasurer, Massachusetts Electric Companies
- John Hall Sage, MS, Banker, Treasurer, Freestone Savings Bank, Portland, CT
- William Henry Howell, LLD, Professor of physiology, John Hopkins University
- Henry Fairfield Osborn, LLD, Eminent paleontologist, Curator, Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York
- Gustav Floden, DD, Chaplain to the King of Sweden
- John James McCook, Class of 1863, DD, Professor of modern languages, Trinity College, Rector, St. John's Church, East Hartford
- Spencer Summerfield Roche, DD, Rector, St. Mark's Church, Brooklyn
- Ernest Milmore Stires, DD, Rector, Grace Church, Chicago, IL
1900
- Patrick Henry Woodward, MA, Attorney, educator, Secretary of the Hartford Board of Trade
- Henry Ferguson, Class of 1868, LLD, Professor of history and political economy, Trinity College
- Robert Woodward Barnwell, Class of 1872, DD, Bishop-elect of Alabama
- Francis Lister Hawks Pott, DD, President of St. John's College, Shanghai, China
- Robert Codman, DD, Bishop of Maine
1890s
1899
- Jeremiah Mervin Allen, MA, Founder and President, Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co.
- B. Lawton Wiggins, LLD, Vice Chancellor of the University of the South, Sewanee, TN
- Samuel Hart, Class of 1866, JCD, Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Associate Dean, Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, CT, Secretary of the House of Bishops, former Trinity College professor
- John Humphrey Barbour, Class of 1873, DD, Professor, Literature and the Interpretation of the New Testament, Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, CT, former Trinity College librarian
- Henry Harrison Oberly, Class of 1865, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Elizabeth, NJ
1898
- Joel Foote Bingham, LittD, Lecturer on Italian literature, Trinity College
- William Benham, DD, Honorary Canon of Canterbury and Boyle Lecturer, London, England.
- Isbon Thaddeus Beckwith, DD, Professor, Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament, General Theological Seminary, New York City, former Professor, Greek Language and Literature, Trinity College
- William Henry Lewis, Class of 1865, DD, Rector of St. John's Church, Bridgeport, CT
1897
- Charles Ray King, LLD, American physician, farmer and author
- Chauncey Bunce Brewster, DD, Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Connecticut
- Edward Goodridge, Class of 1860, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Exeter, NH
- Storrs Ozias Seymour, DD, Rector of St. Michael's Church, Litchfield, CT
1896
- William Bayard Hale, MA, Rector, Church of Our Saviour, Middleboro, MA
- William Woodruff Niles, Class of 1857, LLD, Bishop of New Hampshire
- Horatio Rogers, LLD, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island
- George Francis Nelson, DD, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, Secretary to the Bishop of New York
1895
- George Cyprian Jarvis, Class of 1855, MA, Prominent Hartford physician, former Chief Surgeon, 1st Division 10th Army Corps.
- Francis Philip Nash, LittD, Professor of Latin, Hobart College, NY
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LLD, President of William and Mary College, VA
- Eugene Augustus Hoffman, DD, Dean of the General Theological Seminary, NY
- Carl Eckhardt Grammer, DD, Professor of Church History, Theological Seminary of Virginia
- Charles Lewis Fischer, Class of 1860, DD, Professor, New Testament Literature, Theological School of Kenyon College, OH
1894
- Sherman Wolcott Adams, MA, Prominent Hartford attorney and judge, president of the Board of Park Commissioners
- Abram Heaton Robertson, MA, Prominent New Haven attorney and judge, former Connecticut State Senator
- Joseph Roswell Hawley, LLD, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- William Ralph Churton, DD, Senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, England
- George William Douglas, Class of 1871, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, New Haven, CT
- Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall, DD, Bishop of Vermont
1893
- Joseph Mayo, MA, Prominent Hartford citizen
- Richard Wilde Micou, MA, Professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School, Philadelphia, PA
- Leonard Kip, Class of 1846, LittD, Attorney, author, scholar
- William Hamersley, Class of 1858, LLD, Judge-elect of the Supreme Court of Errors, State of Connecticut
- John McKim, DD, Missionary Bishop of Yedo, Japan
- Henry Sylvester Nash, DD, Professor in the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, MA
- Leonard Kip Storrs, Class of 1863, DD, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Brookline, MA
1892
- Donald Ticknor Warner, Class of 1872, MA, Attorney, firm of Warner and Landon, Salisbury, CT
- Lorenzo Sears, LittD, Assoc. Professor of Rhetoric, Brown University, Providence, RI
- Joseph Buffington, Class of 1875, LLD, Judge of the United States District Court, Kittanning, PA
- George William Dumbell, DD, Rector, St. Austin's School, Castleton, NY
- Thomas Frank Gailor, DD, Vice Chancellor, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
- Lucius Waterman, Class of 1871, DD, Rector, All Saints' Church, Littleton, NH
1891
- Stephen Payne Nash, LLD, Prominent attorney, expert in church law, New York City
- Charles Henry Hall, Class of 1847 (hon), JCD, Rector, Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, NY
- Alfred Lee Brewer, Class of 1853, DD, Rector, St. Matthew's Hall, San Mateo, CA
- James Clark, DD, Archdeacon of Antigua
- George Sherman Converse, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, Roxbury, MA
1890
- Seth Low, LLD, President, Columbia College
1880s
1889
- William Whaley Bellinger, MA, Rector, Trinity Church, Wethersfield, CT
- Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Class of 1851, LLD, Librarian of the State of Connecticut
- Boyd Vincent, DD, Assistant Bishop of Southern Ohio
- Hall Harrison, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, Ellicott City, MD
- Alexander Mackay-Smith, Class of 1872, DD, Archdeacon of New York
1888
- Bernard Carter, LLD, Prominent lawyer, Baltimore, MD
- Angelo Ames Benton, Class of 1856, DD, Professor of dogmatic theology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
- James Dobbin, DD, Rector, Shattuck School, Faribault, MN
- George McClellan Fiske, Class of 1870, DD, Bishop-elect of Fond du Lac, Rector, St. Stephen's Church, Providence, RI
- William Ford Nichols, Class of 1870, DD, Assistant Bishop-elect of Ohio, Rector, St. James' Church, Philadelphia, PA
1887
- Henry Augustus Adams, MA, First Assistant Rector, Trinity Church, New York City
- James Watson Bradin, MA, Rector, St. John's Church, Hartford
- George Edward Elwell, Class of 1870, MA, Attorney, prominent citizen, Bloomsburg, PA
- Charles Allen Sumner, MA, Lawyer, politician, U.S. Representative from California
- George Franklin Edmunds, LLD, U.S. Senator from Vermont
- George Williamson Smith, LLD, President of Trinity College
- Joseph Pemberton Taylor, Class of 1843, DD, Rector, Plainfield and Middletown, NJ
1886
- John Samuel Beers, MA, General missionary of the Diocese of Massachusetts
- Alexander Champline McCabe, MA, Rector, St. Philip's Church, Laurel, MD
- Beverley Ellison Warner, MA, Rector, Trinity Church, Bridgeport, CT
- John Turner Wait, LLD, Attorney, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- James Beach Wakefield, Class of 1846, LLD, Attorney, judge, U.S. Representative from Minnesota
- William Croswell Doane, DD, Bishop of Albany
- William Stephen Rainsford, DD, Rector, St. George's Church, New York City
1885
- Randolph Washington Lowrie, MA, Curate of parish in Prince George's County, Washington, D.C. Diocese
- Charles Adelle Lewis Totten, MA, Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Professor of military science and tactics, Cathedral School of St. Paul, Garden City, NY
- Joel Williston Wright, MA, Distinguished physician, New York City
- Cornelius Bishop Smith, Class of 1854, DD, Rector, St. James's Church, New York City
- Samuel Hart, Class of 1866, DD, Professor of Latin, Trinity College
1884
- Henry Codman Potter, DD, Assistant Bishop of New York
1883
- John Smith Phelps, Class of 1832, LLD, Former Governor of Missouri
1882
- Charles Sebastian Fisher, MA, Physician, New York City
- Samuel Ward Loper, MA, Self-taught scientist and fossil collector, Durham, CT
- Jeremiah Halsey, LLD, Distinguished attorney and politician, Norwich, CT
- John Brainard Morgan, DD, Rector, Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris, France
1881
- Austin DeWolf, MA, Distinguished attorney, Greenfield, MA
- Charles Edwin Silas Rasey, MA, Shattuck School, Faribault, MN
1880
- Josiah Cleveland Cady, MA, Architect, New York City
- William Henry Williams, MA, Vicar of Padgate, Warrington, England
- William Petit Trowbridge, LLD, Mechanical engineer, military officer, naturalist, Chair of engineering department, School of Mines, Columbia College
- John Clarkson DuBois, Class of 1853, DD, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Fredericksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
- John Saul Howson, DD, Dean of Chester Cathedral, England
1870s
1879
- Densmore David Chapin, Class of 1856, MA, Rector, Church of the Ascension, Stillwater, MN
- William Moser Rumbaugh, MA, Professor of Military Science, Norwich University, Norwich, VT
- Frederick Schiller May, DD, Secretary of the Anglo-Continental Society, London, England
- John S. White, LLD, Headmaster, Brooks Academy, Cleveland, OH
1878
- George Washington Egleston, MA, Businessman, New York City
- Horace Faithfull Gray, DD, Vicar of Pilton, Somerset, England
- Hiram Carleton, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Falmouth, MA
- William Augustus Hitchcock, Class of 1854, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburg, PA
- Dwight Whitfield Pardee, Class of 1840, LLD, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut
1877
- James Carter Knox, MA, Teacher, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
- Augustus Muhlenberg Swift, MA, Teacher, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
1876
- John Hargate, MA, Teacher, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
- Alfred Cochman Roberts, MA, Burlington, NJ
- Francis Schmid, MA, Teacher, Trinity School, Pittsburgh, PA
- David Hillhouse Buel, DD, Principal, Ravenscroft Training School, Asheville, NC
- Henry Burroughs, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Boston, MA
- David Platt Sanford, Class of 1844, DD, Rector, St. Andrew's Church, Thompsonville, CT
- Wootton Wright Hawkes, Class of 1861 (hon), LLD, Lecturer, English language and literature, Trinity College
1875
- William Henry Collins, MA, Rector, St. Michael's Church, Brattleboro, VT
- Joseph Hall, MA, Principal of the Public High School, Hartford
- Henry Poor Mott, MA, Trinity School, Madalin on the Hudson, NY
- Andrew Wheeler Phillips, MA, Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, Cheshire, CT
- Jacob Shipley Shipman, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Lexington, KY, Bishop-elect of the Diocese of Fond du Lac
1874
- John Franklin Spalding, DD, Missionary Bishop of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming
- George Trevor, DD, Canon of York, and Rector of Beeford, Hull, England
- Thomas Egleston, LLD, Professor of mineralogy and metallurgy, School of Mines of Columbia College, New York City
1873
- William Hobart Hare, DD, Bishop of the Missionary Jurisdiction of Niobrara
- David Buel Knickerbacker, Class of 1853, DD, Rector, Gethsemane Church, Minneapolis, MN
- John Christopher Draper, LLD, Professor of chemistry in the medical department of the University of the City of New York
- William Cooper Mead, LLD, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, CT
- Nathan Bouton Warren, Class of 1858 (hon), DM, Musical composer, Troy, NY
1872
- Elisha Carpenter, MA, Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, State of Connecticut
- Thomas Rawdon Fisher, MA, Businessman, New Rochelle, NY
- Caskie Harrison, MA, Professor, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
- Francis Partridge, MA, Headmaster, Grammar School at St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, Canada
- John Scarborough, Class of 1854, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, PA
- William James Harris, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Rutland, VT
1871
- Bankson F. Morgan, MA, New York City
- George Rainsford Fairbanks, MA, Co-founder, the University of the South, Sewanee, TN
- Giles Henry Deshon, DD, Rector, St. Andrew's Church, Meriden, CT
- George Morgan Hills, Class of 1847, DD, Rector, St. Mary's Church, Burlington, NJ, lecturer in Burlington College
- Isaac Patrick White, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Newport, RI
- Noah Porter, LLD, President of Yale College
- William Davis Shipman, Class of 1858 (hon), LLD, Judge of the District Court of the United States
- Hamilton Lanphere Smith, LLD, Professor, astronomy and natural philosophy, Hobart College, NY
1870
- Robert Carley, MA, St. Paul's College, Palmyra, MO
- William Woodruff Niles, Class of 1860, DD, Bishop-elect of New Hampshire
- John Adams Paddock, Class of 1845, DD, Rector, St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, NY
- William Rudder, Class of 1848, DD, Rector, St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, PA
- John Brainard, Class of 1851, DD, Rector, St. Peter's Church, Auburn, NY
- John Ordronaux, LLD, Noted surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence in Columbia College
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford, LLD, Former Lieutenant Governor of New York
1860s
1869
- Jose Manuel Garcia, MA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Coley James, Class of 1861, MA, Officer, First Connecticut calvary, Editor, Thomaston Express, CT
- John Eaton Smith, MA, Rector, Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity, Westport, CT
- Francis E. Lawrence, Class of 1854 (hon), DD, Pastor, Church of the Holy Communion, New York City
- Henry Olmstead, Class of 1842, DD, Rector, St. James's Church, Great Barrington, MA
- William Stevens Perry, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Geneva, NY
- Edward Miner Gallaudet, Class of 1856 and 1859 (hon), LLD, President, Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Washington, D.C.
1868
- Daniel C. Roberts, MA, Rector, Christ Church, Montpelier, VT
- William White Wiltbank, MA, Attorney, Philadelphia, PA
- Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Class of 1845 (ad eund), DD, Bishop of Western New York
- Edward Young Buchanan, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Oxford, PA
- Malcolm Douglass, CLass of 1846, DD, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Windsor, VT
- Charles Gillette, Class of 1838, DD, Secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Freedman's Commission
- Sanford Jackson Horton, Class of 1843, DD, Principal, Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, Cheshire, CT
1867
- H. Hastings Weld, MA, Rector, Trinity Church, Moorestown, NJ
- Marcus L. Fiske, MA, Doctor, Warehouse Point, CT
- John Beckwith, Class of 1852, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, New Orleans, LA, Bishop-elect of Georgia
- Benjamin H. Paddock, Class of 1848, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Detroit, MI
- Daniel C. Weston, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Stratford, CT
- Christopher C. Cox, LLD , Surgeon, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
1866
- Gordon Moses Bradley, MA, Rector, St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, MA
- Charles Todd Quintard, DD, Bishop of Tennessee
- John Cleugh, DD, Archdeacon of Malta
- Lorenzo T. Bennett, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Guilford, CT
- Origen Storrs Seymour, LLD, Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut
1865
- William H. Lewis, Jr., Class of 1865, BA, Left college to join the National Service
- Cyprian Nichols Beach, BA, Businessman, Philadelphia, PA, Member of the class of 1848
- William P. Clyde, MA, Officer, Clyde Steamship Company
- Leighton Coleman, MA, Rector, St. John's Church, Wilmington, DE
- William Hamersley, Class of 1858, MA, Attorney, member of the Court of Common Council of the City of Hartford
- Edward Ballard, Class of 1845, DD, Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brunswick, ME
- Thomas McClure Peters, DD, Rector, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, New York City, NY
1864
- 1Edward Crafts Hopson, BA
- 1Robert Watkinson Huntington, BA
- 1Fordham Morris, BA
- 1Ira St. Clair Smith, BA
- 1Lemuel H. Wells, BA
- Samuel Dutton Hinman, MA, Episcopal missionary to Sioux Indians, Mission of St. John, Redwood County, MN
- Silas M. Rogers, MA, Ellenburg, NY
- Samuel Moody Emery, Class of 1838 (hon), DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Portland, CT
- Robert B. Fairbairn, Class of 1840, DD, Warden, St. Stephen's College, Annandale, NY
- David Hawkins Short, Class of 1833, DD, Episcopal clergyman, Connecticut
1. Left college to join the National Service
1863
- David F. Banks, MA, Rector, Christ Church, Norwich, CT
- Francis Goodwin, MA, Deacon, Church of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, CT
- William Whiting Boardman, Class of 1845 (ad eund), LLD, Politician, U.S. Representative from Connecticut, trustee of Trinity College
- William Guy Peck, Class of 1853 (hon), LLD, Professor of mathematics and astronomy, Columbia College, NY
- Riverius Camp, Class of 1831, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Brooklyn, CT
- George H. Clark, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Hartford, CT, trustee of Trinity College
- Henry Augustus Coit, DD, Rector, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
- Henry DeKoven, Class of 1845 (hon), DD, Clergyman, Professor at Berkeley Divinity School
- James S. Purdy, Class of 1849, DD, Rector, St. James Church, Hyde Park, NY
1862
- Charles B. Goodsell, MA, Educator, Westchester County, NY
- Arthur Mason, MA, Clergyman, New York City
- Thomas E. Pattison, MA, Assistant to the Rector, St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, CT
- William Edmond Curtis, Class of 1843, LLD, Attorney, President of the New York Board of Education, trustee of Trinity College
- James Dixon, LLD, U.S. Representative and Senator from Connecticut
- Nathaniel E. Cornwall, Class of 1831, DD, Rector, St. Matthias's Church, New York City
- Thomas Gallaudet, Class of 1842, DD, Founder, St. Ann's Church for Deaf Mutes, New York City
- Ezekiel Gilbert Gear, DD, Chaplain, Fort Snelling and Fort Ripley, MN
- Edwin Harwood, DD, Rector, Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, CT
- Isaac Henry Tuttle, Class of 1836, DD, Rector, St. Luke's Church, New York City
1861
- Wootton Wright Hawkes, MA, Professor, English literature and the modern languages, Trinity College
- Duncan L. Stewart, Class of 1845 (ad eund), LLD, Professor emeritus, Greek and Latin languages and literature, Trinity College
- Isaac Hazlehurst, Class of 1828, LLD, Prominent lawyer, Philadelphia, PA, former director Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co.
- Henry Champion Deming, LLD, Mayor of Hartford, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
- Benjamin W. Stone, Class of 1838, DD, Rector, Christ Church Parish House, Watertown, CT
- Edward A. Washburn, Class of 1854, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, Hartford, CT
- George Leeds, DD, Rector, St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, PA
- John Mason Neale, Class of 1854 (ad eund), DD, Anglican priest, scholar, hymnwriter, warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead, West Sussex, England
1860
- William Edward Coale, MA, Prominent physician, Boston, MA
- John William French, Class of 1832, DD, Chaplain, professor of geography, history and ethics, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
- Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard, DD, Episcopal clergyman, chair of Latin languages and literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
1850s
1859
- Edward Miner Gallaudet, Class of 1856, MA, Superintendent, Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Washington, D.C.
- Agrippa Nelson Bell, MA, Prominent physician and pioneer in public health, Brooklyn, NY
- Frederick Fitzgerald, MA, Rector, St. Stephen's Church, Goldsboro, NC and Church of the Saviour, Jackson, NC
- Robert Lloyd Goldsborough, MA, Rector of Trinity Church, Elkton, MD, missionary in Cecil County, MD
- Nicholas Hoppin, DD, Rector, Christ Church, Cambridge, MA
1858
- Causten Browne, MA, Prominent attorney and author, Boston, MA
- William Davis Shipman, MA, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut
- Nathan Bouten Warren, BM, Musical composer, Troy, NY
- Abner Jackson, Class of 1837, DD, President of Hobart Free College, Geneva, NY (8th President of Trinity College)
- Charles Mason, DD, Rector, Grace Church, Boston, MA
1857
- Charles M. Selleck, MA, Clergyman, founder, Selleck School for boys, Norwalk, CT
- Jared Bradley Flagg, MA, Portrait artist, Rector, Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, NY
- Daniel Grosvenor Wright, MA, Priest of the diocese of New York
- Guillermo Picard, MA, Madrid, Spain
- Joseph Oldknow, Class of 1849 (ad eund), DD, Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity Chapel, Bordesley, Birmingham, England
- George Stillman Hillard, LLD, Prominent attorney, politician, author, city solicitor for Boston, MA
1856
- Thomas Wildman, MA, Scottish clergyman
- John Purves, MA, Rector, Christ Church, Westport, CT
- Almiron Fitch, MA, Physician, Delhi, NY
- Francis Thayer Russell, MA, Rector, St. Mark's Church, New Britain, CT
1855
- Elisha Johnson, MA, Attorney, recorder, city court, judge of the police court, Hartford, CT
- George S. Williams, MA, Clergyman, Watertown, CT
- Goodwin Collier, Class of 1847, MA, Attorney, judge of the police court, Hartford, CT
- William Preston, MA
- Rudolph L. Tafel, MA, Teacher of French and German languages, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- William Blatch, Bachelor of Divinity, Clergyman, Fifeshire, Scotland
- Thomas Fielding Scott, DD, Episcopal Bishop of Washington and Oregon territories
1854
- Charles De Wolf Brownell, MA, Noted landscape artist, Hartford, CT
- Samuel Farmar Jarvis, Class of 1845, MA, Trinity College librarian
- Francis E. Lawrence, MA, Priest, Trinity Church, New York City
- Henry Caswall, DD, Vicar of Figheldean, Wiltshire, England
- Frederick J. Goodwin, DD, Rector, Church of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, CT
- E. Edwards Beardsley, Class of 1832, DD, Rector, St. Thomas's Church, New Haven, CT, trustee, Trinity College
1853
- Charles Gardiner Acly, MA, Clergyman, New York and Connecticut
- Robert Bolton, Jr., MA, Clergyman, author, artist, New Rochelle, NY
- Frederick Cunningham, MA, New York
- Colin McRae Ingersoll, Class of 1839, MA, Attorney, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- William Guy Peck, MA, Assistant professor of mathematics, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
- Arthur Pinn, MA
- Myron Wallace Wilson, MA, Noted physician, Hartford, CT
- Jacob Lyman Clark, Class of 1831, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, Waterbury, CT
- Gurdon Saltonstall Coit, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, Bridgeport, CT
- Robert Alexander Hallam, Class of 1845 (ad eund), DD, Rector, St. James's Church, New London, CT
- Thomas Winthrop Coit, LLD, Professor of ecclesiastical history, Trinity College
1852
- Thomas Brock Fuller, MA, Rector, St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Thorold, Ontario, Canada
- Jonathan Walton Beck, MA, Clergyman, Cobourg and Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada
1851
- George Mortimer Armstrong, MA, Rector, Louth Township, Ontario, Canada
- Ethan Ferris Bishop, MA, President, Naugatuck Railroad
- James Christopher Comstock, MA, Lansingburg, NY
- John Turner Wait, Class of 1835, MA, Attorney, Norwich, CT
- Junius Marshall Willey, MA, Rector, Calvary Episcopal Church, Stonington, CT
- E. Harrison Cressey, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, Ashwood, TN
1850
- Henry Norman Hudson, MA, Shakespearean scholar and author, clergyman, New York
- William E. Vibbert, MA, Rector, St. James' Church, Fair Haven, CT
- Richard Sharp Kissam, MA, Prominent physician and surgeon, medical examiner for Connecticut Life Insurance Co., New York
- John Wakefield Francis, LLD, Prominent New York City physician and author, first president of the New York Academy of Medicine
1840s
1849
- William S. Bartlett, MA, Rector, St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, MA
- Ralph Hoyt, MA, Clergyman and poet, New York City
- Henry Shelton Sanford, Class of 1843, MA, Acting Secretary to the American Legation, Frankfurt, Germany
- Isaac Fletcher Redfield, LLD, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont
1848
- Samuel Chase, MA, Clergyman, vice-principal, Jubilee College, Robin's Nest, IL
- John A. Merrick, MA, Clergyman, Fort Ripley, MN
- David Low, DD, Bishop of Moray and Ross, Scotland
- Alexander Ewing, DD, Bishop of Argyle and the Isles, Scotland
- Thomas Atkinson, DD, Rector, St. Peters Church, Baltimore, MD, future Bishop of North Carolina
1847
- Reuben J. Germain, MA, Chaplain, St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, NJ
- Dudley Chase, MA, Rector, Church of the Atonement, Chicago, IL
- Charles Henry Hall, MA, Rector, Church of the Holy Innocents, West Point, NY
- Henry Edwards, MA, Clergyman, Christ Church, East Haven, CT
- Joseph S. Covell, MA, Rector, Trinity Church, Wolcottville, CT
- Samuel Church, LLD, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut
1846
- William McMurray, MA, Clergyman, Dundas and Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
- George Erving Winslow, MA, Physician, Glasgow, Scotland
- Mark Antony Lower, MA, Sussex historian, author, schoolteacher, Lewes, England
- Henry B. Sherman, MA, Rector elect, Christ Church, Belleville, NJ
- Charles William Bradley, MA, Secretary of state for Connecticut, clergyman
- William Ingraham Kip, MA, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Albany, NY
- Samuel Seymour Lewis, Class of 1829, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Mobile, AL
- William Croswell, Class of 1827 (hon), DD, Rector, Church of the Advent, Boston, MA, Senior Fellow of Trinity College
- Isaac Toucey, Class of 1845 (hon), LLD, Governor of Connecticut
1845
- Jonas Stremmel, MA, Astoria, New York City
- Charles Sigourney, MA, Businessman, banker, philanthropist, and founding trustee of Trinity College
- Henry DeKoven, MA, Clergyman, Tivoli, NY
- George Burgess, MA, Rector, Christ Church, Harford, CT, trustee of Trinity College
- Isaac Toucey, MA, Politician, attorney, trustee of Trinity College
1844
- Sabura S. Stocking, MA, Clergyman, Orange, NJ
- William Staunton, MA, Rector, St. Peter's Church, Morristown, NJ
- Roger Sherman Baldwin, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
1843
- Amos Duncan McCoy, MA, Clergyman, Alexandria, LA
- Heman Dyer, DD, President, Western University of Pennsylvania
1842
- Joseph Green Cogswell, LLD, Educator, superintendent, Astor Library, New York City
- Chauncey F. Cleveland, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
1841
- William Watson, MA, Clergyman, Hudson, NY
- Irving Paris, MA, Attorney, New York City
- Henry Washington Lee, MA, Rector, Christ Church, Springfield, MA
- Alfred Lee, DD, Bishop of Delaware
1840
- Liberty A. Barrows, MA, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Oak Hill, NY
- Albert E. Church, MA, Professor of mathematics, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
- Stephen Elliott, DD, Professor of sacred literature, South Carolina College, Bishop of Georgia
- Christian Hanckel, DD, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Radcliffboro, Charleston, SC
- George McIlheney, DD, Clergyman
1830s
1839
- James Shorter Wallace, MA
- David Moir, DD, Bishop of Brechin, Scotland
- TItus Strong, DD, Rector, St. James's Church, Greenfield, MA
1838
- Thomas Sylvester Brownell, MA, Civil engineer, Second Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, U.S. Army
- Laurent Clerc, MA, Teacher, co-founder, American Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, CT
- Samuel Moody Emery, MA, Rector, Trinity Church, Portland, CT
- Nathaniel Smith Richardson, MA, Deacon, Trinity Church, Portland, CT
- Isaac Boyle. DD, Former rector, St. Paul's Church, Dedham, MA
- Frederic Holcomb, DD, Rector, Episcopal churches in Watertown and Northfield, CT
- Horatio Potter, DD, Rector, St. Peter's Church, Albany, NY, former professor, mathematics and natural philosophy, Washington (Trinity) College
1837
- Lemuel Beach Hull, MA, Rector, Christ's Church, Redding, CT
- Samuel Farmar Jarvis, LLD, Clergyman, professor of Oriental languages and literature, Washington (Trinity) College
1836
- Lemuel C. Holcomb, MA, Deputy Sheriff, Simsbury, CT
- Francis Dana Newcomb, MA, Assistant Quartermaster and First Lieutenant, U.S. Army
- William H. Shaler, MA, Clergyman, Suffield, CT
- Ashbel Steele, MA, Former rector, St. John's and Grace Churches, Saybrook, CT, missionary, Pensacola, FL
- Adrian Russell Terry, MA, Physician, professor of chemistry and natural history, Bristol College, PA
- John Frederick Schroeder, DD, Clergyman, St. Paul's and St. John's Chapels, Trinity Parish, New York City
- Cyrus Stebbins, DD, Clergyman, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Hudson, NY
- Thomas Lindall Winthrop, LLD, Politician, historian, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
1835
- Jeremiah M. Murphy, MA, Teacher
- Salmon Wheaton, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Newport, RI
1834
- George Clinton Vankleeten Eastman, MA, Clergyman, Bristol, CT
- Jacob F. Huber, MA, Professor of modern languages, Wesleyan University, CT
- Edward Ingersoll, MA, Rector, St. Andrew's Church, Meriden, CT
1833
- Walter M. Goalen, MA, Clergyman, Pittenweem, Scotland
- Stephen Jewett, MA, Rector, St. James' Church, Derby, CT, Trustee, Washington (Trinity) College
- Hector Humphreys, DD, Former professor of ancient languages, Washington (Trinity) College, President, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD
- George Washington Doane, DD, Former professor of belles-lettres and oratory, Washington (Trinity) College, Bishop of New Jersey
1832
- Lucius Maro Purdy, MA, Clergyman, Tutor, Washington (Trinity) College
- David Butler, DD, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Troy, NY
1831
- Joseph Titus Clark, MA, Clergyman, Skaneateles, NY
- William Jarvis, MA, Rector, Trinity Church, Portland, CT, Trustee, Washington (Trinity) College
- Daniel Burhans, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Newtown, CT, Trustee, Washington (Trinity) College
- Harry Croswell, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, New Haven, CT, Trustee, Washington (Trinity) College
- Bethel Judd, DD, Rector, St. James' Church, New London, CT, Trustee, Washington (Trinity) College
- John S. Peters, LLD, Governor of Connecticut, Trustee, Washington (Trinity) College
1830
- Charles Bishop, MA, Educator, physician
- James F. Hull, MA, Rector, Christ Church, New Orleans, LA
- John Kirby, MA, Physician, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- Gregorio Perdicari, MA, Tutor of Greek language, Washington (Trinity) College
- Edward Jones, MA (ad eund), Clergyman and missionary, first recorded Black postsecondary graduate in Connecticut
1820s
1829
- Thomas Hartwell Horne, DD, British theologian and librarian
- Adam Clarke, DD, British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar
1828
- James Glynn, MA, U. S. Navy officer
1827
- William Croswell, MA, Clergyman, editor of Episcopal Watchman
- John Metcalf Garfield, MA, Clergyman, teacher, founder New Haven Female Seminary, New Haven, CT
- Gideon Tomlinson, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
1826
- 1Alexander Jolly, DD, Bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness, Scotland
1: in absentia