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Honourable in tent?

Published on
July 28, 2006
Last updated
May 22, 2015

Lecturers at Birmingham University, meanwhile, also had to suffer disappointment when an important dignitary did not turn up for graduation. An e-mail was sent urging staff to turn up to the "marquis" - "located in the school of biosiences quad". Those who could drag themselves away were greeted by a large tent, not someone ranked above an earl.

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