List of honorary doctors of the University of New Zealand information
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
William Davies[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
William Hollis Cocker[5]
LLD
1961
George Currie
LLD
1961
Ian Alistair Gordon[6][7]
LittD
1961
Arthur Porritt
LLD
1961
David Smith
LLD
1961
Duncan Stout
LLD
^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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