DEGREE: Dame Penelope Wilton. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire
LEADING figures from a variety of sectors will be awarded with honorary degrees next month.
The degrees will be presented during York St John University’s graduation ceremonies at York Minster.
Recipients will include children’s campaigner Baroness Floella Benjamin, stage and screen actress Dame Penelope Wilton, and Steve Rowe, chief executive of Marks & Spencer.
Also being recognised are the Yorkshire Rows, the oldest all-female crew to row across the Atlantic who started learning to row at the Guy Fawkes Boat Club in York.
Campbell Robb, the chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, will be another recipient, as will Philip Thake, chief executive of York Conservation Trust.
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