Dorothy Winstone

Dame Dorothy Gertrude Winstone DBE CMG (née Fowler, 23 January 1919 – 3 April 2014) was a New Zealand educationist and academic. She sat on the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion which ran from 1975 to 1977.^[1]

The Dorothy Winstone Centre Theatre at the Auckland Girls' Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand is named in her honour. The theatre was built in 1988 and designed by architect Ivan Mercep.

Winstone was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for public services, in the 1977 New Year Honours.^[2] In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community.^[3] In 1993, Winstone was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.^[4]

Winstone died on 3 April 2014.^[5] Her ashes were buried at Purewa Cemetery, Auckland.^[6]

References

1. "Queens Birthday Honours List". The Press. 16 June 1990. p. 4.
2. "No. 47104". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1976. p. 41.
3. "No. 52174". The London Gazette. 16 June 1990. p. 29.
4. "The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
5. "Advocate for young women dies". New Zealand Herald. 5 April 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
6. "Burial & cremation details". Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium. Retrieved 25 March 2016.

External links

• Dorothy Winstone Theatre