[HPFGU-OTChatter] Joanne Rowling's Doctorates

[Ivan Vablatsky]

On 13/05/03 , Hans wrote:
>Doctor Rowling has two honorary doctorates of letters at British 
>universities. If you wish I can look up which universities. Her title IS 
>Doctor Rowling! And, as I said in a previous email to HPFGU, I feel no one 
>deserves it more than she does, and I will not refer to her as JKR!

GulPlum <hp at plum.cream.org> wrote:

Honorary doctorates do not entitle usage of "Doctor" (or "Dr."). I don't 
know of any country's academic establishment which does.
 
Hans again:
In an earlier email I sent a copy of an email from me to Christopher Little, J K Rowling's agent, asking him what she preferred. The answer from Mr Little was that she wanted to be referred to as "J K Rowling OBE".
 
However just for the record I want to quote the source where I learnt that she IS entitled to call herself Dr Rowling, even if she chooses not to. This is Philip Nel's book, "J K Rowling's Harry Potter Novels". I quote from page 25:
"In recognition of her achievement, Rowling received an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in June 2000. The same month, she received a Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews, and in July, her Alma Mater, the University of Exeter, awarded her a Doctor of Letter because "what she writes makes the world a better place", explained professor Peter Wiseman ("Now it's Doctor Rowling")."
 
The above proves to me that she IS entitled to call herself Dr Rowling. I presume the quote in brackets is by Prof. Wiseman. If he doesn't know who can use that tile, no one does.
 
Anyway I'm not sorry I brought this up as it has brought up some interesting facts about titles.
 
By the way I now have nineteen books about HP (not counting canon). If you're interested I could email a list. Most of the books I've obtained from Amazon and so I presume everyone knows them, but if not, I'll be only too glad to email the complete list.
 
Hans
 
"Any friend of Harry's is a friend of mine."




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