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as a matriculated student in 1876, the first Australasian university institution to admit women to degree classes on an equal basis with men. Connon was second woman in the British Empire to graduate BA and the first to receive a degree with honours. Brown and Connon married on 9 December 1886. They
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John Macmillan Brown (1845–1935) was a university professor and administrator who had a considerable role to play in laying the foundation for university tertiary education in New Zealand.
49:, the sixth child of Ann Brown and her husband, James Brown, a sea captain. John was raised in a family that placed high value on education—for both sexes. He attended 123:, a research library, archive, and art gallery which is associated with the University of Canterbury. The Macmillan Brown Library's collections focus on New Zealand and 131:. Under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven he also published two Utopian novels: Riallaro, the archipelago of exiles (1901) and Limanora, the island of progress (1903). 280: 77: 227: 275: 285: 127:
history. Brown also allocated a substantial proportion of his fortune to the Macmillan Brown Library and the University of Canterbury's
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Brown died at Christchurch on 18 January 1935 at the age of 89, leaving a significant bequest to
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Scottish
New Zealand
education for women
Irvine
Irvine Academy
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Balliol scholarship
Snell exhibition
professor
foundation chairs
Canterbury College
Christchurch
University of New Zealand
Helen Connon
Viola
Millicent
Archibald Baxter
James K. Baxter
Macmillan Brown Library
Pacific Islands
Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
Canterbury College
"Brown, John Macmillan"
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Macmillan Brown Lecture series
Radio New Zealand
MacMillan Brown Prize for Writers

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