Duxes
1940 : Malcolm James Campbell Templeton (Attended King’s High School from 1936 to 1940)
Malcolm James Camp
bell Templeton, came to the School from Gore High School during the second term of 1936, and has had an excellent scholastic record during the whole of his five years at the School. He is a boy of exceptional literary ability and sound historical knowledge, and the school magazine, Wi Kingi, owes more to his guiding hand than to anyone else. He has been on the committee responsible for that school publication for four years, while for the last two years he has been Editor-in-chief. In the newly formed Ambulance Division of the School Cadet corps he has done excellent work.Malcolm attended King’s High School, where he was dux in 1940. In the next four years he was a student at Otago University, graduating with an MA with first-class honours in Latin and English literature in 1944. Military service followed, after which Secretary of External Affairs Alister McIntosh recruited him to the fledgling Department of External Affairs in 1946. Malcolm spent the next five years in what he later described as ‘a longish apprenticeship’ before being posted as a third secretary in the New Zealand Embassy in Washington.Malcolm’s talents were recognised early. His first task in the United States was to attend the San Francisco Conference on the Japanese peace settlement, which was preceded by the signing of the Pacific Security (ANZUS) Treaty.
In 1954 Malcolm joined the New Zealand permanent delegation at the United Nations in New York for three years.
Following a period in the department back in Wellington, during which he headed its Defence Division, Malcolm was posted to the New Zealand High Commission in London in 1962. In 1963 he attended the Imperial Defence College.
Returning to Wellington in 1967, Malcolm assumed the role of an assistant secretary in the department; during Jack Marshall’s brief term as prime minister in 1972 he was seconded to Marshall’s office as deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Department. This was followed by his first and only head of mission posting, going back to New York as permanent representative at the United Nations. In 1973-74, he was an influential adviser to Norman Kirk on human rights, Antarctica and apartheid.
Back in Wellington in 1978, Malcolm became deputy secretary of foreign affairs, a position he held until his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1984. During the latter stages of his career in the department, he was much involved in developing New Zealand position in and taking part in the negotiations on the law of the sea convention.
Malcolm was appointed a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for public services in 1997.
Malcolm made a Doctor of Literature at the Otago University in 2003 and was appointed a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for public services in 1997.
In 1941 Frank was a School Prefect, the School Dux, a member of the First Rugby XV, a member of the School Athletics team and a member of the First Cricket XI. He was winner of the Moller Cup as Sergeant of the best platoon in the Cadet Corps.
On leaving King’s Frank attended the University of Otago until his university study at Otago was interrupted by war.
In 1943 Frank was with the Air Force stationed for training in New Zealand. He served in the South West Pacific 1944 and 1945, first as a dive bomber pilot and then as a fighter pilot.
After the war he graduated with a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Otago before going on to lecture at Victoria University. Frank was the recipient of several awards, including the Carnegie and Fulbright Fellowships in the 1960s.
Frank taught at Victoria from 1952-67 as a lecturer and then as Macarthy Professor of Economics, returning from 1970-77 as a Professor of Money and Finance. He became an Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Policy Studies up until his death in 2011.
Frank was awarded two honorary doctorates, one in law from Otago University in 1997 and one in commerce by Victoria University in 2004.
Frank’ career saw him work advising several governments, both on domestic economic policy and foreign trade.
He became an economic adviser to the Royal Commission Monetary, Banking and Credit Systems in 1955, he later served as two terms on the Monetary and Economic Council, set up in 1961 by the Holyoake government. Frank was involved in debates on New Zealand’s trade policies, including agreements with Australia and concessions to New Zealand when Britain joined the European Economic Community, which became the European Union.
He was founder of the Institute of Policy Studies at Victoria University where he wrote a series of studies of trade relationships with senior officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Frank was made a justice of the peace in 1960.
Frank also worked extensively in the private sector, including as economics manager of Tasman Pulp and Paper Company and chairing the National Bank of New Zealand’s Southpac Finance subsidiary.
Frank was knighted in 1975 for services to economics and education.
In 1942 Bill was Head Boy, Dux of the School, winner of the Dunedin Shakespeare Club’s prize for Shakespeare Reading and the Parents’ Association Prize for Excellence in VIA. He gained a University Entrance Scholarship. He was a member of the First Cricket XI.
On the 27th of July 1943 while living at home in St Kilda with his parents Bill received his call up for military service in the post. He never served overseas but must have essentially occupied as he delayed his entrance to university.
In 1946 Bill attended the University of Otago. He graduated as Batchelor of Laws in 1949 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He moved to Wanganui in 1950 where he joined the legal firm Treadwell Gordon & Company. He became a partner in 1951 and remained there until 1971. He moved to Wellington in 1971 where he became a partner with the legal firm Findlay Hoggard Richmond & Company in Wellington. He remained there until becoming a partner with Buddle Findlay in Wellington from 1983-1991. With this firm he was chairman of partners from1985 to 1987, then a consultant from 1992 until he retired, in 1994. He was a well-respected lawyer and was listed by the international legal database of reputable layers by the long-established firm of Martindale-Hubbell. He had great proficiency in a wide range of legal areas.
Bill had an active life being Chairman of the board of trustees for the Restoration of St. Mary of the Angels church, in Wellington from1987 to 1990. He was Chairman of the Commission on accident compensation for the New Zealand Law Society in Wellington from 1976 to 1981. He was a Member of the International Bar Association (vice Chairman of Commission 1986 to 1988), the Wanganui District Law Society (president 1967 to 1968), the Wanganui Medico-Legal Society (president 1966), the Wellington District Law Society, the Wellington Medico-Legal Society (president 1988), and the Wellington Club.
| 1943:Horn, Alexander Huntly (Attended King’s High School from 1939 to 1943)
Alexander Huntly Horn, MSc, MNZIC Huntly was Lincoln College, Officer in charge, Chemical Services, Department of Soil Science until early 1990. He joined the Department in 1958. Countless generations of postgraduate students have good cause to remember Huntly for his patient help and advice with their analytical problems. From the College Magazine 1983: Huntly Horn has ambitions of replacing Barry Crump in any further 4-wheel drive Toyota ads. Barry, if you are game, go out with Huntly next time he tackles that paper road in Central Otago |
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| William Edward Chisholm (Attended King’s High School from 1940 to 1944)
Graduated from the University of Otago – M.B., Ch.B 1951 , Dip. Obst. 1959 U.N.Z., practiced medicine in Oamaru until his death in 1981. He was the Rectors son. Paul Richard Carey Weaver, (Kings High School 1940-1944)
In 1964 Paul was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia Professor Paul Weaver was Chair of Classics at the University of Tasmania (1966-1992) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1975) After his education at King’s High School in Otago, New Zealand (1940–44), a Bachelor’s degree in general Classics at the University of Otago (1945–47), and a Master’s degree in Latin at Canterbury University College (1949), Paul went on to King’s College, Cambridge. He enjoyed a highly distinguished international reputation—hence appointments to Visiting Fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge (1978), The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1986–87), St John’s College, Cambridge (1990– 91). Paul virtually created on his own, a study of the Roman legal system revealing a whole new world of beavering slave and freedmen bureaucrats working behind the Roman Emperors, with their secrets and subtleties of career structures. Paul has been a pioneer in a new field of social and historical investigation—the workings of the bureaucracy in the household of the Roman emperors. From his raw material of inscriptional evidence (plus scattered legal texts) he has contrived to construct sophisticated techniques for dating his material; from that base he has been able to investigate the changing patterns of recruitment, marriage, manumission and social mobility amongst the ranks of Caesar’s slaves and freedmen, and to analyse the career structure and promotion procedures within the imperial service. Little wonder, in his so-called retirement in Canberra, that Paul was snapped up to serve on the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1995–2000) and to act as its Honorary Secretary (1996–2000) and to play a major role in the establishment and management of the Cambridge Australia Trust. |
| 1945: Leslie Herbert Stevens, (Attended King’s High School from 1941 to 1945)
Leslie Herbert Stevens M.B., CH.B., University of NZ 1953, Dunedin Public Hospital Dept. of Paediatrics, University of N.S.W., Kensington, N.S.W., Australia 1954. M.R.A.C.P. 1957
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| 1946:Wallace Duncan Bidmead, (King’s High School 1942 – 1946)
Wallace started his teaching career in Auckland, NZ, and continued teaching for 43 years in Seventh Day Adventist schools. He taught in Christchurch, NZ; Sydney Adventist College, NSW; and was principal of Sonoma College in PNG. Wallace had considerable intellect and a great breadth of knowledge. He had a very real and constant love for Jesus that empowered his marriage, his love of family, his love of life, his commitment to teaching and to the Church, to which he gave his life’s work. |
| 1947: Hugh Campbell Templeton, (Attended King’s High School from 1945 to 1947)
Hugh Templeton was born in Wyndham, Southland, in 1929. He was educated at Gore High School, King’s High School, the University of Otago, and then as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University in 1952–53. From 1954 to 1969 Hugh served with the New Zealand Department of External Affairs, first in London, and then in Wellington, before going as the last Deputy High Commissioner of Western Samoa to prepare specially for independence and then to New York to assist secure Samoa’s post-independence aid programmes, under Guy Powles. From 1965 to 1969 Hugh served in Wellington working on Asian and European and Defence affairs, before being elected to Parliament. Hugh was elected as MP for Awarua in Southland in 1969 to 1972 From 1972–1975, he was executive assistant to the Leaders of the Opposition, Jack Marshall and then Robert Muldoon. He was re-elected to Parliament in 1975 for the Wellington electorate of Karori. The electorate was renamed Ohariu and was represented by Templeton until the 1984 election. He was appointed to various positions in communications and economic portfolios during the Muldoon National Government of 1975–1984. Hugh was Minister of Revenue (1977–1982) and Minister of Trade and Industry (1981–1984) with responsibility for ANZCER (Australia – New Zealand Closer Economic Relations free trade agreement). He also worked with the Prime Minister on stimulating New Zealand’s onshore petroleum programme as part of Think Big. He wrote a book All Honourable Men: Inside the Muldoon Cabinet 1975–1984 on this period. Hugh lost his seat with the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984. In the 1992 New Year Honours, He was made a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for public services. |
| 1948: Hugh Cameron Butel (At King’s High School from1944 to 1948)
Hugh had a successful academic career winning General Excellence prizes in English, Science and Mathematics. He played for the First Football Eleven and won the N L Taylor cup for most improved player. He was also a member of the School’s Football Committee. Hugh attended the University of Otago and graduated ChB and MB in 1954. In 1959 Dr Hugh Butel was appointed to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In July 1966 Hugh was with a team of Australian civilian medical and surgical staff who volunteered to work in hospitals in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, to instruct and teach Vietnamese medical and paramedical personnel and provide medical aid to anyone who required it. Hugh later became an Anaesthetist in Doncaster, Victoria Australia. He died in 1984 |
| 1949: Edward Linton Phelan, (Attended King’s High School from 1945 to 1949)
He was conferred with his PhD degree at the University of Otago. He had a keen interest in science and nature, and a modest and humble demeanor, Lin Phelan, was a U3A Life Member and was a member of the first Board of U3A Dunedin from 1994 to 2002. He died peacefully on November 11, 2019 age 88 years. 1930’s 1940’s 1950’s 1960’s 1970’s 1980’s 1990’s 2000’s 2010’s 2020’s |
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