ABSTRACT
Academic degrees are normally given after a person’s name only in formal circumstances directly connected with the person’s academic or professional activities. Thus a professor writing a reference may include degrees to indicate status and competence; and someone writing a formal letter to an academic, a clergyman or a professional person may give degrees and honours after the addressee’s name. It is usually sufficient to give the highest degree received by the person, although catalogues, curriculum vitae and prospectuses often list all the degrees, as well as the institutions at which they were obtained. The practice of including degrees is distinct from that of using academic titles:
Dr Brown Professor Brown
These are used in speech and are more likely than degrees to be given in informal correspondence.
