Summary
Sir Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson KBE (18 July 1891 – 7 October 1974) was a New Zealand soldier, lawyer, university lecturer and judge. He was born on 18 July 1891 and attended Rangi Ruru.[1] His father, John Beatty Gresson, was a solicitor in Christchurch, who died in a railway accident a few months before Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson was born.[2] His grandfather, Henry Barnes Gresson, was one of New Zealand's first Supreme Court judges.[1] He was buried in a family grave at St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui.[3]
In 1953, Gresson was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[4] In the 1958 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services as president of the Court of Appeal.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b Finn, Jeremy. "Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ "Further Details". Star. No. 7115. 17 March 1891. p. 3. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ Greenaway, Richard L. N. (June 2007). "St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery Tour : Papanui" (PDF). Christchurch City Libraries. pp. 61–63. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
- ^ Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 413. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
- ^ "No. 41270". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1958. p. 44.