List of honorary doctors of the University of New Zealand

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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.

YearRecipient [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

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