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Members of the New Zealand Research Council with Cockayne standing second from the right, 1936

Alfred Hyde Cockayne CBE ISO (23 May 1880 – 21 October 1966) was a New Zealand botanist, agricultural scientist and administrator. He was born in Dunedin, or Oamaru, New Zealand, on 23 May 1880. He was the son of another noted botanist Leonard Cockayne.[1]

Honours

  • Imperial Service Order (ISO) - 1937[2]
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (Civil Division) - 1957: For services to agriculture[3]

References

  1. ^ Nightingale, Tony. "Alfred Hyde Cockayne". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Imperial Service Order". Supplement to The London Gazette: 3100. 11 May 1937.
  3. ^ "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood". Third supplement to The London Gazette: 3412. 4 June 1957.


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