Alison Roxburgh
{{Short description|New Zealand women's rights advocate (1934–2020)}}
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| birth_name = Alison Mary Cameron
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| spouse = Jim Roxburgh
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Dame Alison Mary Roxburgh {{post-nominals|country=NZL|DNZM|CBE|QSO|JP|size=85%}} (née Cameron; 6 September 1934 – 25 January 2020) was a New Zealand women's rights advocate and community leader.{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119140193/womens-affairs-champion-really-good-nelsonian-dame-alison-roxburgh-dies |title=Women's affairs champion, 'really good Nelsonian' Dame Alison Roxburgh dies |date=30 January 2020 |first=Cherie |last=Sivignon |work=Stuff.co.nz |accessdate=31 January 2020}}
Life
Roxburgh was born in Dunedin on 6 September 1934, and attended Columba College.{{Cite Q|Q96247228}} She earned a Bachelor of Home Science at the University of Otago in 1955 and then attended Auckland Teachers' College. Roxburgh lectured and conducted research in nutrition at the University of Otago, Middlesex Hospital School of Clinical Research and the Flour Advisory Bureau in London, and at Victoria University of Wellington. From 1990 she was the national president of the National Council of Women of New Zealand.
Honours and awards
In the 1986 New Year Honours, Roxburgh was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services,{{London Gazette |issue=50362 |date=31 December 1985 |page=31 |supp=2}} and in 1993 she received the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/our-programmes/new-zealand-royal-honours/new-zealand-royal-honours-system/types-new-zealand-royal-honours/other-distinctive-new-zealand-honours/suffrage-medal-register |title=New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients |date=26 July 2018 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=31 January 2020}} In the 1995 New Year Honours, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to women's affairs.{{London Gazette |issue=53894 |date=31 December 1994 |page=34 |supp=2}} She was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women's affairs and the community, in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2003 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2003 |date=2 June 2003 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=31 January 2020}} Following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government in 2009, Roxburgh accepted redesignation as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/special-honours-list-1-august-2009 |title=Special honours list 1 August 2009 |date=5 April 2011 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=31 January 2020}}
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Category:People from Nelson, New Zealand
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:New Zealand women's rights activists
Category:Companions of the Queen's Service Order
Category:Recipients of the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993
Category:New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Category:New Zealand justices of the peace
Category:New Zealand nutritionists
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