University of Evansville is located about 90 miles north of London in Lincolnshire, a few miles away from the town of Grantham, England (home of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher and Thomas Paine). The study abroad program at the University of Evansville has consistently been rated as one of the best study abroad programs in the nation, ranked #1 in Europe and #7 globally. UE's theater program features four mainstage and two studio productions a year. UE students have been invited to perform at The Kennedy Center more often than any other school in the nation, and the department has participated in
Nicholas Parsons he was awarded an honorary LLD by the university in 1991. He was also awarded an honorary DA by the University of Leicester in 2007, and an honorary DL by the University of Lincoln in 2014. He held the Guinness World Record for the longest after-dinner speech (11 hours) until it was reclaimed by former holder Gyles Brandreth. On November 25, 2018, at the Grosvenor House hotel Parsons was announced to be "King Rat" of the Grand Order of Water Rats for 2019. Nicholas Parsons Christopher Nicholas Parsons (born 10 October 1923) is an English radio and television presenter and