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 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 DSc 1957 Macfarlane Burnet LLD 1957 John B. Condliffe LittD 1957 Baden Powell DSc 1957 Theodore Rigg DSc 1957 Leonard Wild DSc 1959 Henry Forder DSc 1960 Lawrence Bragg DSc 1960 Arnold Wall DSc 1961 Charles Lyttelton LLD 1961 William Hollis Cocker LLD 1961 George Currie LLD 1961 Ian Gordon LittD 1961 Arthur Porritt LLD 1961 David Smith LLD 1961 Duncan Stout LLD
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