University, which is also hosting an annual Hans Rausing Lecture in the History of Science. The University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science hosts an Annual Hans Rausing Lecture. Honours and controversy Hans Rausing received an honorary doctorate from Lund University. He was a visiting professor at Mälardalens Högskola, Sweden, and honorary professor at the University of Dubna, Russia. He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2006. He was an honorary fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, and in 2011 was made an honorary freeman and liveryman at the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London. An article in the Guardian described how Hans Rausing had used the non-domicile tax loophole to legally evade taxes in the UK and Sweden for decades. While in 2002 his annual income was estimated to be over £225M the report estimated tax payments for income under £1M, this was considered legal because most of the income was foreign capital gains. Personal life Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing had two daughters, Lisbet and Sigrid, and one son, Hans Kristian Rausing. From 2001 to 2012, Rausing and his family donated £886,000 to the UK's Conservative Party. Rausing was a resident of the UK from 1982 until his death. He lived at Wadhurst Park, East Sussex, until his death on 30 August 2019. References External links Arcadia Fund Sussex Community Foundation 1926 births 2019 deaths British billionaires Conservative Party (UK) people Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Lund University alumni Hans Swedish billionaires Swedish chief executives Swedish emigrants to the United Kingdom Swedish philanthropists Conservative Party (UK) donors Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences 20th-century British philanthropists Academic staff of Mälardalen University College