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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, 1980, LHD, Leader, author, humanitarian, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group

2023

Nicole Hockley ’92, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise, delivers the 2023 Commencement address. Photo credit: Office of Communications and Marketing
  • Sidnie White Crawford, 1981, DD, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism, Emerita, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Nicole Hockley, 1992, 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

Former President Jimmy Carter Speaking at Commencement, 1998. Photo credit: John Garaventa courtesy of Trinity College Archives
  • 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), Yale University President-Designate, 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

1967 Honorary degree recipients: (seated from left to right) John Noel Dempsey, Edwin Deacon Etherington, Trinity College President Jacobs; Pauline Seavey Fairbanks, Robert Bruce Hall; (standing from left to right) Charles Martin, Charles Harting Percy, Vernon Davis Roosa, Paul Holmes Twaddle. Photo credit: Trinity College Archives
  • 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

Dwight D. Eisenhower at commencement on October 20, 1954. Photo credit: Trinity College Archives
  • 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

Trinity College 1923 Honorary degree recipients (L-R): Ernest DeKoven Leffingwell, '95; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, '85; John Henry Kelso Davis '99. Trinity College Commencement, 1923. Courtesy of Trinity College Archives
  • 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

Honorary Degree recipients at Commencement, June 17, 1918. From left, President Flavel Sweeten Luther, Theodore Roosevelt, R.J. Coles, a field naturalist, and George Shiras III. Photo credit: F.F. Chudoba courtesy of Trinity College Archives
  • 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

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