Knights and Dames

From NZ Herald of August 1, 2009

List of those accepting or not a change in title with the reinstatement of titular honours.

THE NEW KNIGHTS AND DAMES

KNIGHTS:

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

DAMES:

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

REFUSED NEW TITLE:

* Sir Ivor Lloyd Richardson, judge
* Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright, former Governor-General
Leonard Ramsey Castle, potter
Witi Ihimaera-Smiler, novelist
Sam Neill, actor
Vincent O’Sullivan, writer and poet
Ranginui Walker, academic, writer
Joy Cowley, writer
Patricia Grace, novelist
Sister Patricia Mary Hook, community worker
Penelope Ann Jamieson, former bishop of Dunedin
Sister Pauline Margaret O’Regan, educationist
Margaret Wilson, former Speaker of Parliament

* Titles previously awarded

To mark the occasion be grateful Margaret Wilson does not wish to be called Dame.

In addition it is interesting to look at just who accepted the change.

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