Honours
Rowse was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). He was awarded an Honorary D.Litt by the University of Exeter in 1960 and a D.C.L. by the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, the same year. He was elected to the Athenaeum under Rule II in 1972 and received the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982.Later he was appointed a Companion of Honour (CH) in the 1997 New Years Honours List. In 1968 he was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow, taking the bardic name Lef A Gernow ('Voice of Cornwall'), reflecting his high standing in the Cornish community.
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