List of honorary doctors of the University of New Zealand
The following is a complete list of honorary (also known as honoris causa) doctorates issued by the University of New Zealand before it was disestablished in 1961 and its constituent colleges raised to full university status. It does not include normal doctorates of the same name which were awarded over the same period.
Year | Recipient[1] | Degree |
---|---|---|
1931 | Ernest Rutherford | DSc |
1932 | Leonard Cockayne | DSc |
1935 | Diamond Jenness | LittD |
1937 | Te Rangi Hīroa | DSc |
1940 | George Julius | DSc |
1941 | William Sinclair Marris | LittD |
1942 | William Benham | DSc |
1943 | Alexander Aitken | DSc |
1948 | Āpirana Ngata | LittD |
1949 | William Beveridge | LittD |
1949 | Ronald Syme | LittD |
1949 | Patrick Marshall | DSc |
1950 | Thomas Hunter | LittD |
1950 | Raymond Priestley | DSc |
1951 | Noel Benson | DSc |
1951 | James Hight | LLD |
1951 | James B. Conant | DSc |
1952 | Bernard Freyberg | LLD |
1953 | Bruce Levy | DSc |
1954 | Charles Cotton | LLD |
1955 | Arthur Sims | LLD |
1955 | Howard Kippenberger | LLD |
1955 | Harold Mattingly | LittD |
1955 | John Tresidder Sheppard | LittD |
1956 | [2] | DSc |
1957 | Macfarlane Burnet | LLD |
1957 | John B. Condliffe | LittD |
1957 | Baden Powell | DSc |
1957 | Theodore Rigg | DSc |
1957 | Leonard Wild[3] | DSc |
1959 | Henry Forder[4] | DSc |
1960 | Lawrence Bragg | DSc |
1960 | Arnold Wall | DSc |
1961 | Charles Lyttelton | LLD |
1961 | [5] | LLD |
1961 | George Currie | LLD |
1961 | [6][7] | LittD |
1961 | Arthur Porritt | LLD |
1961 | David Smith | LLD |
1961 | Duncan Stout | LLD |
References[]
- ^ University of New Zealand. Roll of Graduates (PDF). Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "Davies, William". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 2001. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ Renwick, William. "Wild, Leonard John". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Forder biography". Groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "William Hollis Cocker | NZETC". Nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "Ian Alistair Gordon | NZETC". Nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. 4 June 1963. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "109557837". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz.
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