====== Honorary Degrees ======
Trinity College Honorary Degree Recipients by year. Commencement speakers are listed in **bold type.
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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 ====
[{{ :trinity-commencement-2023-selects-51.jpg?300|Nicole Hockley ’92, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise, delivers the 2023 Commencement address. Photo credit: [[https://trincoll.photoshelter.com/galleries/C00006Xg6nbQRRL4/Public|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
* [[jones_james_f._jr|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
* [[thomas_ronald_r|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 [[https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1999-09-18-9909180289-story.html|September 1999 concert]], 2: Awarded at [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2088&context=reporter|November 1999 convocation "The Art of Courage"]]
==== 1998 ====
[{{ ::10.2307_community.34435687-1.jpg?400|Former President Jimmy Carter Speaking at Commencement, 1998. Photo credit: John Garaventa courtesy of [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34435687|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 "[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2087&context=reporter|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: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2083&context=reporter|Ceremony]] in September 1997, 2: "[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1276&context=tripod|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: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2080&context=reporter|Ceremony]] in April 1996, 2: "[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2082&context=reporter|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.
* [[painter_borden_w._jr|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 ====
* **[[english_james_fairfield_jr|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: "[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2060&context=reporter|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: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=tripod|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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2269&context=tripod|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
* [[lockwood_theodore_d|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
* **[[jacobs_albert_c|Albert Charles Jacobs]], LittD, 14th President, Trinity College**
==== 1967 ====
[{{ ::10.2307_community.34262734-1.jpg?400|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: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34262734|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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1930&context=reporter|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.
* **[[funston_g._keith|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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1631&context=bulletin|"The Challenges to Liberal Education" convocation]], November 10 - 13, 1955
==== 1954 ====
[{{ ::10.2307_community.34262542-1.jpg?400| Dwight D. Eisenhower at commencement on October 20, 1954. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34262542|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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2116&context=reporter|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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1609&context=bulletin|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: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1156&context=reporter|Open Air Service Address]] 2: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1575&context=bulletin|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
* [[hughes_arthur_howard|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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1525&context=bulletin|Inauguration of Pres. George Funston]], February 22, 1946
==== 1945 ====
* 1**Stanley 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, [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1931&context=reporter|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, [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2106&context=reporter|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|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 ====
[{{ :photographer-trinitycollege1923-1923.jpg?400|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 [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34652593|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
* 1**Charles 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: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3219&context=tripod|Centennial celebration]]; Prof. Herford is alum of Trinity College of Cambridge University
2: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1119&context=bulletin|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, [[students_army_corps|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 ====
[{{ :10.2307_community.34262382-1.jpg?400|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 [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34262382|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: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3031&context=tripod|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: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2977&context=tripod|Awarded in 1914]] but unable to attend, 3: [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3000&context=tripod|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|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
* [[luther_flavel_sweeten|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
* [[smith_george_williamson|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
* [[jackson_abner|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
* [[jones_reverend_edward|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//
===== Sources =====
[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/commencement/|Trinity College Commencement Programs (1827 - Present)]]
[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter|Trinity Reporter and Alumni Magazines (1939 - present)]]
[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin|Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present)]]
[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod|Trinity Tripod (1904 - present)]]
[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tablets/|Trinity Tablet (1868 - 1908)]]
[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/trustees_mins|Trinity College Board of Trustees Minutes (1823 - 1967)]]
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