Dame Linda Jane Holloway (née Brown, born 10 June 1940) is a Scottish-born New Zealand anatomical pathologist academic, and was a full professor at the

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Early life

Holloway was born in

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, Scotland, on 10 June 1940. She was raised in that country, and met her husband, New Zealand forester John Stevenson Holloway, the son of John Thorpe Holloway, while he was a student at the

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. She moved to New Zealand in 1970, becoming a naturalised New Zealander in 1978.

Academic career

After emigrating, Holloway initially worked in provincial New Zealand, before moving to the

and

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in 1975. She held numerous administrative and advisory roles, including medical advisor to the

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and being a long-serving member of the Abortion Supervisory Committee. Holloway became a full professor at Otago in 1994, and following her retirement in 2006 was conferred the title of professor emeritus. In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, Holloway was appointed an

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, for services to medicine. She was elevated to

Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have ren ...

in the 2005 Queen’s Birthday Honours, and she accepted redesignation as a

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following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government in

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Personal life

Holloway's husband, John, was appointed a

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, for services to forestry and conservation, in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours. He died in Dunedin on 1 January 1999.

Selected works

* Linda Jane Holloway, ''Like leaves from a tree : common pathways to life and death'', 1996 * Davis, Ben W., Richard D. Gelber, Aron Goldhirsch, William H. Hartmann, Gottfried W. Locher, Richard Reed, R. Golouh et al. "Prognostic significance of tumor grade in clinical trials of adjuvant therapy for breast cancer with axillary lymph node metastasis.
Cancer 58, no. 12 (1986): 2662–2670.
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holloway, Linda Living people 1940 births New Zealand women academics Academic staff of the University of Otago Women anatomists New Zealand anatomists Women pathologists New Zealand pathologists Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit Naturalised citizens of New Zealand Alumni of the University of Aberdeen