72 now have titles
72 of the 85 New Zealanders offered reinstated titular honours have decided to accept re-designation as Sir or Dame
1 August 2009
The Prime Minister is delighted with the response to his offer for people receiving high honours to be re-designated as Knights and Dames.
Out of the 85 New Zealanders eligible to accept a title after the Queen approved their reinstatement, 72 are taking up the honour.
John Key says when he first decided to bring back titular honours he was confident the idea would be embraced. The titles will be bestowed at a ceremony at Old St Paul's in Wellington on August 14th.
The Full list:
Dame Malvina Lorraine Major, opera singer; Dame Doreen Blumhardt, potter; Dame Christine McKelvie Cole Catley, author, publisher; Dame Lynley Stuart Dodd, children's writer; Dame Jocelyn Barbara Fish, women's rights campaigner; Dame Patricia Mary Harrison, educationist; Dame Grace Shellie Hollander, ethnic rights campaigner; Dame Linda Jane Holloway, medical academic; Dame Margaret Mary Millard, rural advocate; Dame Deirdre Glenna Milne, lawyer; Dame Lois Joan Muir, netball coach; Dame Claudia Josepha Orange, historian; Dame Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter, lawyer; Dame Alison Mary Roxburgh, women's affairs campaigner; Dame Margaret Kerslake Shields, politician; Dame Jennifer Mary Shipley, politician; Dame Margaret June Sparrow, sexual health specialist; Dame Sukhinder Kaur Turner, former mayor; Dame Robin Adair White, painter; Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney, emeritus professor; Dame Margaret Clark, professor of political science; Dame Mary Josephine Drayton, educationist; Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, composer; Dame Heather Begg (deceased), opera singer.
Sir Paul Terence Callaghan, professor; Sir Lloyd George Geering, theologian; Sir Patrick Ledger Goodman, businessman; Sir Ralph Heberley Ngatata Love, professor; Sir Noel Crossley Anderson, judge; Sir Donald Ward Beaven, emeritus professor; Sir Peter Blanchard, judge; Sir David James Carruthers, judge; Sir Russell Coutts, yachtsman; Sir Edward Taihakurei Junior Durie, judge; Sir Eion Sinclair Edgar, businessman; Sir Bruce Reid Ferguson, Air Marshal; Sir George Vjeceslav Fistonich, businessman; Sir Alan Russell Frampton, businessman; Sir Harawira Tiri Gardiner, Maori leader; Sir David Rendel Kingston Gascoigne, lawyer; Sir Thomas Munro Gault, judge; Sir Peter David Gluckman, scientist; Sir John Packard Goulter, businessman; Sir John William Hansen, judge; Sir John Steele Henry, judge; Sir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, professor; Sir Douglas Kidd, former Speaker of Parliament; Sir Patrick Desmond Mahony, judge; Sir Peter Charles Maire, businessman; Sir Alan Francis Mark, conservationist; Sir Harold Marshall, academic and designer; Sir David Charles Mauger, paediatrician; Sir John Joseph McGrath, judge; Sir Sidney Moko Mead, Maori scholar; Sir Colin Earl Meads, rugby legend; Sir Ralph James Norris, businessman; Sir Noel Stuart Robinson, businessman; Sir Peter Graham Siddell, artist; Sir David Christopher Graham Skegg, professor of medicine; Sir Bruce Houlton Slane, former Privacy Commissioner; Sir Peter George Snell, athlete; Sir Kenneth Allen Stevens, businessman; Sir Archie John Te Atawhai Taiaroa, Maori leader; Sir Tumu te Heuheu, Tuwharetoa paramount chief; Sir Edmund Walter Thomas, judge; Sir Stephen Robert Tindall, businessman; Sir Andrew Patrick Charles Tipping, judge; Sir Peter John Trapski, judge; Sir Henry William van der Heyden, businessman; Sir John Wells, composer; Sir Tennant Edward Wilson, sports administrator; Sir William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young, judge.
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