Dame Dorothy Gertrude Winstone (née Fowler, 23 January 1919 – 3 April 2014) was a New Zealand educationist and academic. She sat on the

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which ran from 1975 to 1977. The Dorothy Winstone Centre Theatre at the

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, New Zealand is named in her honour. The theatre was built in 1988 and designed by architect

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. Winstone was appointed a

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, for public services, in the

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. In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a

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, for services to the community. In 1993, Winstone was awarded the

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. Winstone died on 3 April 2014. Her ashes were buried at Purewa Cemetery, Auckland.

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