Honorary Degrees

Trinity College Honorary Degree Recipients by year. Commencement speakers are listed in bold type.

Degree abbreviations: DD – Doctor of Divinity; LHD – Doctor of Humane Letters; DHum – Doctor of Humanities; LittD – Doctor of Letters; LLD – Doctor of Laws; ScD – Doctor of Science; DFA – Doctor of Fine Arts; DM – Doctor of Music; DST – Doctor of Sacred Theology; DPH – Doctor of Public Health; JCD – Doctor of Canon Law; MA – Master of Arts; MFA – Master of Fine Arts; MLitt – Master of Letters; MM – Master of Music; MS - Master of Science; BA – Bachelor of Arts; BM – Bachelor of Music; BS – Bachelor of Science

Not included: ad eundem degrees

• Luke A. Bronin, LLD, Attorney, politician, 67th mayor of Hartford
• Sara C. Bronin, LLD, Architect, attorney, professor, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
• Danny Meyer, '80, LHD, Leader, author, humanitarian, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group

Nicole Hockley ’92, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise, delivers the 2023 Commencement address. Photo credit: Office of Communications and Marketing

• Sidnie White Crawford, 1981, DD, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism, Emerita, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Nicole Hockley, '92, LHD, Advocate for gun violence prevention, co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise

• 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

• 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

A delayed commencement ceremony was held in June 2022 due to the Covid pandemic.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Julieta Castellanos, LHD, Honduran sociologist, activist, Dean of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH)
• Eric Roy Fossum, '79, ScD, Engineer, inventor CMOS image sensor
• James F. Jones, Jr., LHD, Scholar, 21st President of Trinity College
• Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., LLD, Business executive, civil rights activist, U.S. Presidential advisor
• Paul E. Raether, '68, LHD, Executive, philanthropist, Trinity College Board chair
• Katherine A. Couric, LittD, Award-winning journalist, presenter, producer, and author

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Frank Deford, LittD, Preeminent American sportswriter, novelist, and culture critic
• David Li Kwok-Po, LHD , Chairman and CEO of The Bank of East Asia, Ltd., global philanthropist
• Eugene F. Rivers III, DD, Pastor, nationally-recognized community organizer
• John G. Rowland, LLD, Statesman, Governor of Connecticut
• The Honorable Jane Maria Swift, '87, LLD, Public servant, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Ronald R. Thomas, LHD, Scholar, teacher, former Acting President of Trinity College

• 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

• 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

• Chinua Achebe, LittD, Prize-winning author, professor, and dominant figure of modern African literature
• Ricardo E. Alegría, LHD, Anthropologist, author, professor, father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology
• Stephen John Brademas, LLD, President emeritus of New York University, former U.S. Congressman and Majority Whip
• James A. Calhoun, LHD, Head Coach, University of Connecticut's NCAA championship-winning men's basketball team
• The Ven. S. Chusang Rinpoche, DD, Abbot of Chusang Monastery, spiritual leader and teacher
• Marsha Johnson Evans, LHD, National Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., retired Navy Rear Admiral
• Lorraine Monroe, LHD, Educator, author, founding principal of the Frederick Douglass Academy, Harlem
• Rita Moreno, DM, Award-winning actress, dancer and singer
• Walter A. Persegati, LLD, Former secretary general and treasurer of the Vatican Monuments, Museums and Art Gallerie s
• ¹Yo-Yo Ma, DM, World famous musician
• ²William Colón, DM, Grammy nominee, salsa recording artist, advocate/pioneer for Latin music
• ²Leon Golub, DFA, Widely-exhibited artist who addresses issues of violence and misuse of power
• ²Dollie McLean, LHD, Hartford community leader and co-founder of the Artists' Collective
• ²Jackie McLean, DM, Hartford jazz musician, teacher, and co-founder of the Artists' Collective
• ²Susan Clay Meiselas, DFA, Award-winning photojournalist
• ²Patrick O'Connell, '75, LHD, Arts activist and administrator, founding director of Visual AIDS
• ²Tina Packer, LHD, Founder, president, and artistic director of Massachusetts' Shakespeare & Co.
• ²Peter Schumann, LHD, Creator of Vermont's Bread & Puppet Theater

1: Awarded at September 1999 concert, 2: Awarded at November 1999 convocation "The Art of Courage"

Former President Jimmy Carter Speaking at Commencement, 1998. Photo credit: John Garaventa courtesy of Trinity College Archives

• Calvin Otis Butts III, DD, Senior Minister, Abyssinian Baptist Church New York, New York
• Jimmy Carter, LHD, 39^th President of the United States, professor at Emory University, chairman of the Carter Center
• Ronald E. Compton, LHD, Retired Chairman, President and CEO Aetna Inc.
• Arie Lova Eliav, LHD, Teacher, author, peacemaker
• Louis Harry Feldman, '46, LHD, Author, professor of classics at Yeshiva University
• Leonard Eli Greenberg, '48, LHD, Business executive, entrepreneur, philanthropist
• Jane Pauley, LHD, Television host, journalist
• Herman Wouk, LittD, Pulitzer prize-winning author
• ¹Marilyn K. Bergman,DM, Oscar-winning lyricist, President of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
• ¹Cathleen P. Black, LittD, President, Hearst Magazines
• ^1,2Johnnetta Betsch Cole, LHD, Anthropologist, educator, President of Spelman College
• ¹Billie Jean King, LHD, Pioneer of women's sports
• ¹Susan M. Love, ScD, Surgeon and researcher, best-selling author
• ¹Mildred Torres Soto, LHD, Hartford community leader and manager of community affairs, The Hartford Courant
• ¹Helen A. Thomas, LittD, White House bureau chief of United Press International

1: Awarded at “Women at the Millennium” Convocation, November 1998, 2: Commencement speaker in 2018

• Douglas G. Brinkley, LHD, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, professor of history, University of New Orleans
• William Michael Bulger, LHD, President of the University of Massachusetts
• Chiu Chuang-Huan, LHD, Senior advisor to the President of Taiwan
• John H. Dalton, LLD, Secretary of the Navy
• Robert F. Drinan, S.J., LLD, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center
• Myrlie Evers-Williams, LHD, Chairman of the National Board of Directors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Luis A. Ferré, LLD, Industrialist, humanist, former Governor of Puerto Rico
• Ellen V. Futter, LHD, President of the American Museum of Natural History
• Béatrice Rosenberg, LHD, Civic leader, philanthropist
• Pierre Rosenberg, DFA, Président-Directeur of the Musee du Louvre, member French Academy
• William D. White, LHD, Former President National Baseball League
• ¹Victor Borge, LHD, Musician, humorist, goodwill ambassador
• ¹Bent Melchior, LHD, Former chief rabbi of Denmark, human rights advocate
• ²Norman R. Augustine, LHD, Chairman of the Board, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• ²Eleanor Baum, LHD, Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
• ²George Bugliarello, LHD, Chancellor, Polytechnic University in New York City
• ²Lynn Conway, LHD, Professor of electrical engineering, associate dean, University of Michigan.
• ²Joseph Engleberger, LHD, “Father of robotics,” Chairman of HelpMate Robotics, Inc.
• ²Glen H. Hiner Jr., LHD, Chairman and CEO, Owens Corning
• ²Howard St. Clair Jones Jr., LHD, Chief of microwave research, U.S. Army's research and development lab
• ²Henry Petroski, LHD, Professor of history and civil engineering, Duke University

1: Ceremony in September 1997, 2: “Century of Engineering” Convocation, November 1997

• Michael Richard Campo, '48, LHD, Professor of modem languages, emeritus, and founder of the Rome Campus, Trinity College
• Alfred Gottschalk, DD, Chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
• Herbert A. Granath, LLD, President of ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group
• Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz, LHD, Humanities professor, Wellesley College
• Roger Tory Peterson, ScD, Ornithologist, conservationist and artist
• John Ratté, LHD, Headmaster, Loomis Chaffee School
• Strobe Talbott, LLD, Deputy U .S. Secretary of State, Russian scholar and author
• ¹Rev. Dr. Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba, DD, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
• ¹Rev. Dr. Nyanmeko Barney Pityana, DD, Attorney, Chair of the South African Human Rights Commission
• ²Alice Rivlin, LHD, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve
• ²Rudolph Crew, LHD, Chancellor, New York Public Schools
• ²Rembert Weakland, DD, Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee
• ²Elliot Richardson, LLD, Former U.S. Ambassador, Secretary of Defense and Attorney General
• ²William Donald Schaefer, LLD, Former governor of Maryland, former mayor of Baltimore
• ²William Gorham, LLD, President of the Urban Institute

1: Ceremony in April 1996, 2: “Public Policy” Convocation, September 1996

• John H. Ewing, '41, LLD, New Jersey Senator, retired chairman and CEO, Abercrombie & Fitch
• Fred Fwu-Tyan Ho, LittD, President of National Pingtung Teachers College, Taiwan
• Emily Goodwin Holcombe, '74 DD, Pastor, Stamford First Congregational Church, board member
• Walter J. “Doc” Hurley, Sr., LHD, Hartford coach, school administrator and mentor
• Barbara B. Kennelly, M'71, LLD, U.S. Representative for Connecticut, alumni volunteer
• Edward A. Montgomery, Jr., '56, LLD, Former banker and Trinity trustee board chair, vice president, United Way of SE Pennsylvania
• Denis Francis Mullane, LLD, Retired president and board chair, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
• Borden W. Painter, Jr., '58, LHD, Trinity history professor, ltalian program director, and former interim president of the College
• William Weaver, LittD, Writer, critic, and acclaimed translator of contemporary Italian literature

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• William Barrett, LittD, Philosopher, author
• Constance Elaine Clayton, LHD, Superintendent of schools, Philadelphia, PA
• David Linwood Coffin, LLD, Chairman, The Dexter Corporation
• Robert Fisher Daniell, LLD, President, CEO, COO, United Technologies Corp.
• Christopher John Dodd, LLD, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
• David Elliot Johnson, 1955 DD, Bishop Coadjutor, The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
• Ellen Stewart, DFA, Founder, artistic director, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
• Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, LHD, President, University of Hartford
• ¹Rt. Rev. Desmond M. Tutu, DD, Bishop of Johannesburg, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

1: “A Time for Reconciliation” convocation, January 1986

• Arthur C. Banks, Jr., LHD, President, Greater Hartford Community College
• Walter Justin Connolly, Jr., LLD, Chairman, CBT Corp.
• Jill K. Conway, LHD, President, Smith College
• Ellen Goodman, LittD, Columnist and author
• Gary Graffman, DM, Concert pianist
• William M. Polk, '62, LHD, Headmaster, Groton School
• Kenyon J. Wildrick, '55, DD, Senior Minister, Community Congregational Church Short Hills, NJ
• ¹Guy Carlton Shafer, LLD, Senior executive vice president, Colt Industries
• ¹Arthur Winograd, DM, Conductor laureate, Hartford Symphony Orchestra

1: Fall convocation, October 1985

• Bernard Bailyn, LHD, Professor of history, Harvard University
• Clarence Nicholas Coleridge, DD, Bishop Suffragan Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
• Samuel Herbert Evison, Class of 1912, LHD, Former Chief of Information, U.S. National Park Service
• Brendan Gill, LittD, Theatre critic, The New Yorker
• William Henry Mortensen, LLD, First managing director, Horace Bushnell Hall
• Margaret E. Murie, LHD, Conservationist and author
• ¹William Gaylord Conway, ScD, General director, New York Zoological Society

1: Awarded at ceremony honoring donation of Enders Natural History Collection, March 1984

• 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

• 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

• Colin Goetze Campbell, LHD, President, Wesleyan University
• T. Mitchell Ford, LLD, Chairman, president and CEO, Emhart Corp.
• Amalya Lyle Kearse, LLD, U.S. Circuit Judge
• Juanita Morris Kreps, LLD, Educator, economist, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
• James Patrick Murray, '43, LittD, Sports columnist, Los Angeles Times
• Morgan Porteus, DD, Eleventh Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
• Theodore D. Lockwood, '48, LittD, 15th President, Trinity College

• 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

• 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

• June Jackson Christmas, ScD, Commissioner, New York City Dept. of Mental Health
• Edmund Clayton Gengras, LLD, Chairman of the Board, Transit, Inc.
• Hanna Holborn Gray, LittD, Provost, (Acting President) of Yale University, President-Designate of University of Chicago
• Joseph Thomas Heistand, '45, DD, Bishop Coadjutor, Episcopal Diocese of Arizona
• Peter Van Metre, '50, LLD, Senior Judge, First Judicial District of Iowa

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Robert Sloan Beecher, DD, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral
• Henry Samuel Beers, Class of 1918, LLD, Trustee, former president and chairman of Aetna Life and Casualty Co.
• George Arthur Boyce, Class of 1921, LHD, Native American historian, former Director of Navajo Education, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
• John Vernon Butler, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, New York City
• Paul Wilfred Morency, LLD, Retired president of Broadcast Plaza, Inc.
• Allan Kellogg Smith, Class of 1911, LLD, Attorney, educator, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut
• Melvin Weismann Title, Class of 1918, LLD, Businessman, distinguished alum and Eigenbrodt Trophy winner
• Jerome Pierce Webster, Class of 1910, ScD, Trustee emeritus, physician, professor, writer
• Albert Charles Jacobs, LittD, 14th President, Trinity College

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

• John Noel Dempsey, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
• Edwin Deacon Etherington, LLD, President, American Stock Exchange, President-elect, Wesleyan University
• Pauline Seavey Fairbanks, LHD, Headmistress of Saint Margaret's School, Waterbury, CT
• Robert Bruce Hall, '43, DD, Coadjutor Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
• Charles Martin, DD, Headmaster, St. Alban's School, Washington, D.C., Canon of Washington National Cathedral
• Charles Harting Percy, LLD, U.S. Senator from Illinois, Chairman of the Ford Foundation Fund
• Vernon Davis Roosa, ScD, Designer and inventor of fuel injection systems
• Paul Holmes Twaddle, '31, ScD, Cardiologist, professor, Yale Medical School, Chairman, Trinity Board of Fellows

• 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

• Gladden Whetstone Baker, LLD, Economist, Chairman of the Urban Development Comm., Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce
• Robert Sumter Brawley, LHD, Organist, teacher, Director of Hartford Conservatory
• John Elbridge Hines, DST, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• Edward Charles Horn, '38, ScD, Professor of zoology, Duke University
• Asger Funder Langlykke, ScD, Biomedical researcher, committee chair on Trinity's new Life Sciences Center
• Franze Edward Lund, LLD, President, Kenyon College
• Clifford Colmer Nelson, '37, LHD, Professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, President of the American Assembly
• Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, ScD, Aeronautical scientist, aircraft inventor and designer
• ¹Robert Seymour Morris, Class of 1916, LLD, Businessman, Trustee emeritus, Chairman of the Fine Arts Steering Committee, Trinity College
• ¹Charles Hill Morgan, LittD, Professor of Fine Arts, Amherst College, Acting Chairman, Dept. of Fine Arts, Trinity College

1: Awarded at dedication for Austin Arts Center, May 15, 1965

• 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

• 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

• John Crocker, DD, Headmaster, Groton School, MA
• John Doyle DeWitt, LLD, President, Travelers Insurance Co.
• George Keith Funston, '32, LLD, President, New York Stock Exchange, Former President, Trinity College
• Thomas Stewart Hamilton, ScD, Executive director, Hartford Hospital
• Jacob Coleman Hurewitz, '36, LittD, Professor of political science, Columbia University
• Joseph Warren Hutchens, DD, Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
• Donald Frizell Hyde, LittD, Partner, McKenzie, Hyde, Willson, French and Poor of New York
• Joseph Verner Reed, LHD, Executive producer, American Shakespeare Festival Theater, Stratford, CT

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• John Franklin Enders, ScD, Nobel laureate in medicine
• Karl William Hallden, Class of 1909, ScD, Inventor and manufacturer, Thomaston, CT
• Fred Donald Carpenter, Class of 1910, LHD, Professor of German and literature, University of Vermont
• Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr., LittD, President, Steuben Glass, Inc.
• Frank Diehl Fackenthal, LLD, Acting President, Columbia University, past president, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Frederick Braut Rentschler, LLD, Aviation pioneer, Chairman of the board, United Aircraft Corp.
• Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, LLD, Governor, State of Connecticut
• James Miller Symes, LLD, President, Pennsylvania Railroad
• Louis Melbourne Hirshson, DD, Dean, Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford
• Robert Johnston Plumb, Class of 1922, DD, Executive secretary, Armed Forces Div., National Council of the Episcopal Church
• ¹Perrin H. Long, ScD, Physician and educator, College of Medicine, State University of New York
• ¹A. Blair Knapp, LHD, President, Denison University
• ¹E. Wilson Lyon, LHD, President, Pomona College
• ¹Francis H. Taylor, LHD, Director, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
• ¹Lionel Trilling, LittD, Author, critic, professor of English, Columbia University
• ¹Peter M. Fraser, LLD, Chairman, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
• ¹John A. Krout, LLD, Vice president and provost of Columbia University
• ¹Harold R. Medina, LLD, Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• ¹Orie Leon Phillips, LLD, Chief Justice, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
• ¹Carlos P. Romulo, LLD, Philippine ambassador to the United States
• ¹Sir Percy Spender, LLD, Australian ambassador to the United States
• ¹Kenneth D. Wells, LLD, President of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
• ¹Daniel A. Poling, DD, Editor of The Christian Herald
• ¹Lawrence Rose, DD, Dean, General Theological Seminary, New York City

1: Awarded at "The Challenges to Liberal Education" convocation, November 10 - 13, 1955

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

• Raymond John Wean, ScD, Founder, president and director, Wean Engineering Co., Warren, OH
• Frank Davis Ashburn, LHD, Founder, headmaster, Brooks School, North Andover, MA
• Walter Paul Paepcke, LHD, Chairman of the board, Container Corp. of America
• Julius Goebel, Jr., LLD, Director, Foundation for Research in Legal History, Columbia University
• Lewis Gildersleeve Harriman, Class of 1909, LLD, Chairman of the Board, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co., Buffalo, NY
• George David Hardman, Class of 1929, DD, Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Grand Rapids, MI
• Lyman Cunningham Ogilby, DD, Suffragan Bishop of the Philippines
• ¹Dwight David Eisenhower, LLD, 34^th President of the United States

1: Special convocation, October 20, 1954

• John Blair Barnwell, Class of 1917, ScD, Chief of the Tuberculosis Division, Veterans Administration, Wash., D.C.
• Charles Woolsey Cole, LHD, President, Amherst College
• Karl Fenning, Class of 1903, LLD, Retired professor of law, Georgetown University
• John Jay McCloy, LLD ,Former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany
• Irving Sands Olds, LLD, Retired chairman of the board, United States Steel Corp.
• William Arthur Purtell, LLD, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
• Abraham Jehiel Feldman, DST, Rabbi, Congregation Beth Israel, Hartford
• Paul Humphrey Barbour, Class of 1909, DD, Missionary, South Dakota
• James Albert Pike, DD, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York City
• ¹Earl Daniel Babst, LLD, Lawyer and industrialist
• ¹Prescott Sheldon Bush, LLD, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
• ¹Robert Livingston Johnson, LLD, President of Temple University

1: Awarded at Inauguration of Pres. Albert Jacobs, May 16, 1953

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Henry Du Bois Bailey Moore, MA, Industrialist, book collector
• Charles Archibald Goodwin, LLD, Attorney and public servant, Hartford
• Allan Nevins, LittD, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Columbia University
• Dudley Scott Stark, Class of 1917, DD, Rector, St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago, IL
• Frederic Sydney Fleming, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, New York City
• Paul Roberts, Class of 1909, M.A. 1911, DD, Dean, St. John's Cathedral, Denver, CO
• ¹Charles P. Taft, LLD, Attorney, President, Federal Council of Churches, Cincinnati, OH
• ²Lauriston Livingston Scaife, 1931, DD, Bishop of Western New York
• ²Francis Bunnell Creamer, Class of 1923, DD, Rector of Christ Church, Detroit, MI
• ²Horace Richardson Bassford, Class of 1910, MS, Insurance executive and actuarial expert
• ²Karl William Hallden, Class of 1909, MS, Inventor and industrialist

1: Open Air Service Address 2: 125 Anniversary Convocation May 16, 1948

• 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

• Newton Case Brainard, MA, President of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, former mayor of Hartford
• Murray Hart Coggeshall, Class of 1896, MA, Investment banker, veteran of Spanish-American War
• Arthur Howard Hughes, LHD, Professor of modern languages and Acting President, 1943 to 1945, Trinity College
• Sidney James Weinberg, LLD, Investment banker, former vice chairman, War Production Board
• Vannevar Bush, ScD, President, Carnegie Institute of Washington
• Luther Deck Miller, DD, Chief of the Army Chaplains
• ¹Wallace Brett Donham, LLD, Professor of administration, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
• ¹Victor Lloyd Butterfield, LHD, President of Wesleyan University
• ¹Conrad Herbert Gesner, Class of 1923, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of South Dakota

1: Awarded at Inauguration of Pres. George Funston, February 22, 1946

• ¹Stanley Hart Osborn, DPH, Commissioner of Public Health of the State of Connecticut
• Randall Jacobs, LLD, Vice Admiral, Chief of the Bureau of Navy Personnel
• Greville Haslam, LHD, Headmaster of the Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, PA
• Raymond Cunningham, Class of 1907, DD, Rector of Trinity Church, Hartford

1: Special convocation held on February 22, 1945

• James Fairfield English, Class of 1916, DD, Trustee, Hartford Seminary Foundation, Supt. of the Connecticut Conf. of Congregational Christian Churches

• 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

• George Gardner Monks, MA, Headmaster, Lenox School, Lenox, MA
• John Marshall Phillips, MA, Curator, Garvan Collection at Yale University
• William Hutchinson Putnam, MA, Banker, churchman and civic leader, Hartford
• Eugene Edward Wilson, ScD, U.S. Navy veteran, President, United Aircraft Corp.
• Samuel Herbert Fisher, LLD ,Former chairman, Connecticut Highway Safety Commission
• Michael Edward Coleman, DD, All Hallows Church, London
• ¹Joseph Clark Grew, LLD, Former ambassador to Japan

1: Speaker, Mid-winter graduation exercises, December 20, 1942

• 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

• Philip Bartlett Gale, MA, Patron of arts, philanthropist and industralist
• John Gregory Wiggins, MA, Teacher, expert woodcarver
• Raymond Earl Baldwin, LLD , Governor, State of Connecticut
• Roelif Hasbrouck Brooks, Class of 1900, DD, Rector of St. Thomas Church, New York City
• John Fields Plumb, Class of 1891, DD, Executive Secretary, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
• ¹William Augustus Bird, IV, Class of 1912, MA, Foreign correspondent, New York Sun, Paris, France

1: Speaker, Class of 1944 Matriculation Ceremony, October 30, 1940

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Clarence Everett Watters, MM, Organist and instructor of music, Trinity College
• Samuel Eliot Morison, LittD, Professor of history, Harvard University
• Wilbur Lucius Cross, LLD, Governor of Connecticut
• Francis Patrick Garvan, LLD, President of the American Chemical Foundation
• Maurice Francis McAuliffe, LLD, Bishop of Hartford
• John Insley Blair Larned, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of Long Island, New York

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• John Henry Kelso Davis, Class of 1899, MA, Treasurer, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, CT
• Benjamin Freeman Comfort, Class of 1889, MA, Head of Cass Technical School, Detroit, MI
• Ernest DeKoven Leffingwell, Class of 1895, ScD, Arctic explorer, geologist
• Edmund Sawyer Merriam, Class of 1902, ScD, Professor of chemistry, Marietta College, Marietta, OH
• Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Class of 1885, LLD, Attorney, President, Trinity Alumni Association of Michigan
• Cameron Josiah Davis, Class of 1894, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Buffalo, NY
• Charles Herbert Young, Class of 1891, DD, Headmaster, Howe Military School, Howe, IN
• William Blair Roberts, Class of 1905, DD, Bishop of South Dakota
• ¹Charles Harold Herford, LittD, Professor of English literature, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
• ²William Sterling Cogswell, Class of 1861, LLD, Attorney, life member Trinity Board of Trustees

1: Centennial celebration; Prof. Herford is alum of Trinity College of Cambridge University 2: Trinity College Bulletin, 1935-1936 (Necrology)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Calvin Duvall Cowles, MA, Former commandant, Trinity College Student Army Training Corps
• George Seymour Godard, MA, State Librarian of Connecticut
• Arthur Foote, DM, Distinguished American composer, organist, and teacher
• Bliss Carman, LittD, Poet and litterateur
• William Bowie, Class of 1893, ScD, Engineer, Chief of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
• Frederick Perry Fish, ScD, Former president, American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
• Franklin Knight Lane, ScD, Secretary of the Interior
• William Scoville Case, LLD, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut
• Percival Wood Clement, Class of 1868, LLD, Governor of Vermont
• ¹Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, LLD, President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic
• Elbert Henry Gary, LLD, President, United States Steel Corp.
• Clarence Ransom Edwards, LLD, Commander of the Twenty-Sixth Division, U.S. Army
• Charles Otis Scoville, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, New Haven, CT

1: in absentia

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

• William Butler Davis, BM, Organist and choirmaster, Holy Trinity Church, Middletown, CT
• Nathaniel Horton Batchelder, MA, Headmaster, Loomis Institute, Windsor, CT
• Meigs Haywood Whaples, MA, President, Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Hartford, CT
• Russell Jordan Coles, ScD, American sportsman, naturalist and tobacco trader
• George Shiras, III, ScD, Field naturalist, former U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• Theodore Roosevelt, ScD, 26^th 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

• Frank Butler Gay, MA, Librarian of the Watkinson Library, Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
• Thomas Willing Balch, LittD, Lawyer, publicist, writer
• ¹John Bakewell, Class of 1859, DD, Rector emeritus, Trinity Church, Oakland, CA
• ²Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, LLD, Former Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator

1: in absentia 2: Trinity Tripod, Commencement Issue, June 22, 1917

• ¹Francis Cutler Marshall, MA, Major, United States Army
• William Wyatt Barber, Class of 1888, MA, Greek teacher, St. Mark's School, Southboro, MA
• Richard Allyn White, CLass of 1881, MA, General Auditor of the New York Central Lines Railroad
• Henry Campbell Black, Class of 1880 LLD, Lawyer, author of Black's Law Dictionary
• Morris Woodruff Seymour, LLD, Distinguished attorney, judge, former Connecticut State Senator
• Samuel Walker McCall, LLD, Governor of Massachusetts
• Edward Clowes Chorley, DD ,Rector, St. Philip's Church-in-the-Highlands, Garrison, NY
• ²Joseph Blount Cheshire, Class of 1869, DD, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina
• ³James Carter Knox, DM, Organist, choirmaster, Saint Paul's School, Concord, NH
• ³Edward Campion Acheson, Doctor of Sacred Divinity, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut

1: in absentia, 2: Awarded in 1914 but unable to attend, 3: Awarded on Founders' and Benefactors' Day, November 1, 1916

• 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

• 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

• Benedict Devine Flynn, Class of 1905, MA, Actuary, Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford, CT
• Karl Reiland, Class of 1897, MA, Rector of St. George's Church, New York City
• Louis Welton Downes, Class of 1888, ScD, Engineer, inventor, founder of Downes Clock Tower
• John Henry Hobart Lyon, LittD, Headmaster, Shattuck School, Faribault, MN
• Clarence Eugene Woodman, CLass of 1873, LittD, Paulist priest and prominent Catholic scientist
• Samuel Oscar Prentice, LLD, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Ernest Flagg Henderson, Class of 1882, LHD, Author and historian
• John Scarborough, Class of 1854, LLD, Bishop of New Jersey
• Jacob Lyman Greene, LLD, President, Connecticut Life Insurance Co., trustee of Trinity College
• Flavel Sweeten Luther, Class of 1870, LLD, President of Trinity College
• Horace Baldwin Hitchings, Class of 1854, DD, Rector emeritus, Cathedral Church of St. John, Denver, CO
• Richard Henry Nelson, Class of 1880, DD, Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Albany
• Stewart Means, DD, Rector, St. John's Church, New Haven, CT
• Edward Staples Drown, DD, Theologian, educator, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, MA

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Seth Low, LLD, President, Columbia College

• 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

• 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

• Henry Augustus Adams, MA, First Assistant Rector, Trinity Church, New York City
• James Watson Bradin, MA, Rector, St. John's Church, Hartford
• George Edward Elwell, Class of 1870, MA, Attorney, prominent citizen, Bloomsburg, PA
• Charles Allen Sumner, MA, Lawyer, politician, U.S. Representative from California
• George Franklin Edmunds, LLD, U.S. Senator from Vermont
• George Williamson Smith, LLD, President of Trinity College
• Joseph Pemberton Taylor, Class of 1843, DD, Rector, Plainfield and Middletown, NJ

• 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

• 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

• Henry Codman Potter, DD, Assistant Bishop of New York

• John Smith Phelps, Class of 1832, LLD, Former Governor of Missouri

• 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

• Austin DeWolf, MA, Distinguished attorney, Greenfield, MA
• Charles Edwin Silas Rasey, MA, Shattuck School, Faribault, MN

• 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

• 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

• 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

• James Carter Knox, MA, Teacher, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
• Augustus Muhlenberg Swift, MA, Teacher, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Causten Browne, MA, Prominent attorney and author, Boston, MA
• William Davis Shipman, MA, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut
• Nathan Bouten Warren, BM, Musical composer, Troy, NY
• Abner Jackson, Class of 1837, DD, President of Hobart Free College, Geneva, NY (8th President of Trinity College)
• Charles Mason, DD, Rector, Grace Church, Boston, MA

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Sabura S. Stocking, MA, Clergyman, Orange, NJ
• William Staunton, MA, Rector, St. Peter's Church, Morristown, NJ
• Roger Sherman Baldwin, LLD, Governor of Connecticut

• Amos Duncan McCoy, MA, Clergyman, Alexandria, LA
• Heman Dyer, DD, President, Western University of Pennsylvania

• Joseph Green Cogswell, LLD, Educator, superintendent, Astor Library, New York City
• Chauncey F. Cleveland, LLD, Governor of Connecticut

• 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

• 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

• James Shorter Wallace, MA
• David Moir, DD, Bishop of Brechin, Scotland
• TItus Strong, DD, Rector, St. James's Church, Greenfield, MA

• 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

• Lemuel Beach Hull, MA, Rector, Christ's Church, Redding, CT
• Samuel Farmar Jarvis, LLD, Clergyman, professor of Oriental languages and literature, Washington (Trinity) College

• 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

• Jeremiah M. Murphy, MA, Teacher
• Salmon Wheaton, DD, Rector, Trinity Church, Newport, RI

• 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

• 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

• Lucius Maro Purdy, MA, Clergyman, Tutor, Washington (Trinity) College
• David Butler, DD, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Troy, NY

• 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

• Charles Bishop, MA, Educator, physician
• James F. Hull, MA, Rector, Christ Church, New Orleans, LA
• John Kirby, MA, Physician, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Gregorio Perdicari, MA, Tutor of Greek language, Washington (Trinity) College
• Edward Jones, MA (ad eund), Clergyman and missionary, first recorded Black postsecondary graduate in Connecticut

• Thomas Hartwell Horne, DD, British theologian and librarian
• Adam Clarke, DD, British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar

• James Glynn, MA, U. S. Navy officer

• 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

• ¹Alexander Jolly, DD, Bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness, Scotland

1: in absentia

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