Honorary awards

The Right Honourable Viscount Jowitt

On 16 August 1951, the Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon the Lord High Chancellor of Britain, the Right Honourable Viscount Jowitt.

Viscount Jowitt was visiting Australia for the seventh Legal Convention of the Law Council.

From left: the Rt Hon Viscount Jowitt, Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn and Dr Erwin Griswold, Dean of Harvard Law School, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

From left: Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Stephen Roberts; the Right Honourable Viscount Jowitt; Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn; Chief Justice of Australia the Right Honourable Sir John Lathall; Dean of Harvard Law School Dr Erwin Griswold; Sir Raymond Evershed, Master of the Rolls, photo, 'The Gazette' 1952, University of Sydney Archives.

Report

Viscount Jowitt obtained the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and the degree of Doctor of Laws from the Universities of Columbia, Chicago, Toronto and New York. He was a member of His Majesty 's Privy Council and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

From 'The Gazette' 1952