Anna Crighton

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Dame Anna Crighton

DNZM QSO JP
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Crighton in 2020
Born
Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton

Christchurch, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury (BA, MA)
University of Otago (PhD)
Thesis (2012)

Dame Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton DNZM QSO JP is a New Zealand heritage campaigner and historian, and former local-body politician.[1] In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honorus, she was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.[2]

She was born in Christchurch, where she attended Christchurch East Primary School and then Pinehill School, Dunedin, followed by Otago Girls' High School. She returned to Christchurch and attended Christchurch Girls’ High School. After a brief unsuccessful marriage and, as a single parent, she worked in North Canterbury before returning to Christchurch to finish her schooling. She did School Certificate and University Entrance by correspondence before enrolling at university as an over-21 student on a scholarship. Her baccalaureate degree was in history, art history and classics. Her masters thesis in 2012 was in Colonial Architecture. She became Registrar or Collections Manager at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in 1979, where she remained until 2001.[3]

She was a Community Board member and chairwoman, and a City Councillor (1995–2007) in Christchurch. Long-associated with Christchurch Heritage Ltd and the Christchurch Heritage Trust, the consortium purchased the old, stone Trinity Church in Worcester Street and saved it from demolition.[4]

Honours[]

In the 2020 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to heritage preservation and governance.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ https://chchplan.ihp.govt.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3688-Peter-Dyhrberg-Others-Supplementary-evidence-of-Anna-Crighton-9-03-2016.pdf
  2. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2005". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 6 June 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  3. ^ https://ageconcerncan.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Keeping-On-Autumn-2016.pdf
  4. ^ https://ageconcerncan.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Keeping-On-Autumn-2016.pdf
  5. ^ "New Year honours list 2020". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.

Links[]

  • Profile, companiesnz.com; accessed 30 December 2021.
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