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New Zealand vice-regal consort, wife of Keith Jacka Holyoake

DCMGDame Norma Holyoake
Holyoake in 1962
Spouse of the Prime Minister of New Zealand
Personal details
BornNorma Janet Ingram
7 March 1909
Died18 December 1984
Spouse Keith Holyoake ​(m. 1934)​

Dame Norma Janet Holyoake DCMG (née Ingram, 7 March 1909 – 18 December 1984) was the spouse of the prime minister of New Zealand Keith Holyoake and viceregal consort of New Zealand.

Biography

Norma Janet Ingram was born on 7 March 1909.

She twice married Keith Holyoake: first in a civil ceremony on 24 September 1934, and again on 11 January 1935 at their Presbyterian church in Motueka. The couple had five children: two sons and three daughters.

In the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours, Norma, Lady Holyoake, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, for public services since 1935.

She died on 18 December 1984, aged 75.

References

  1. ^ "Norma Janet Holyoake". Nelson Provincial Museum. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  2. Wood, G. A. (2000). "Holyoake, Keith Jacka". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  3. "No. 48214". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1980. p. 39.
  4. "Dame Norma Holyoake". Press. 19 December 1984. p. 2.


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