WILFRID Laurier University will grant world-renowned boxing champion Lennox Lewis an honorary doctor of laws degree at the university’s fall convocation October 28. The university will also hold an installation ceremony at the convocation for incoming Chancellor Michael Lee-Chin, at which outgoing Chancellor John Pollock will ceremonially hand the chancellor’s robes to his successor.

Lee-Chin will be installed as chancellor and deliver an address to convocation at the morning ceremony, which begins at 10 am Lennox Lewis will receive his degree and address convocation at the afternoon ceremony, which begins at 2:30 pm. Both the morning and afternoon ceremonies will be held at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex.

Lennox Lewis is an Olympic gold medallist and three-time boxing heavyweight champion of the world. George Foreman, also a former world heavyweight champion, called Lewis the “greatest heavyweight boxer of all time”. Lewis, who retired from the sport in 2004, is also a noted philanthropist. His Lennox Lewis Foundation raises money for disadvantaged children in Jamaica, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and he has supported social causes such as public advocacy against domestic violence. A dual Canadian-British citizen, he is a member of the Order of Canada and a Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.