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• Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, educational leader

  Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, 1889-1944, was the first Māori woman to receive a degree from a university.  Bessie Grace Bessie Grace. Image supplied by author In the first half...

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• Edith Rudd, nurse

  Edith Rudd (nee Lewis), 1891-1982,  served in World War I and World War II and was matron of Wairau Hospital for 20 years between the wars. Edith Lewis Edith Rudd,...

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• Pauline Alice Bennett, pilot

  Pauline (Susie) Alice Bennett was born in 1906 to Ida and Dr. James Freeborn Bennett. She attended St. Mary’s School in Blenheim. bennett Pauline Bennett, pilot. Image supplied by author ...

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• Mary Isoline Watson, wandering washerwoman

  Mary Watson, 1906-1968, married at an early age and settled on a farm at Seddon. Here she became Marlborough's first woman motor cycle rider. mary watson Mary Watson. Image supplied...

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• Margaret Churchward, business woman

  Margaret was born in her family's Nelson Street home in Blenheim in 1915, as the only child of William and Lucy Churchward. William was a well known lawyer...

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