Kenneth Gresson

Sir Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson (18 July 1891 – 7 October 1974) was a New Zealand soldier, lawyer, university lecturer and judge. He was born on 18 July 1891 and attended Rangi Ruru. His father, John Beatty Gresson, was a solicitor in Christchurch, who died in a railway accident a few months before Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson was born. His grandfather, Henry Barnes Gresson, was one of New Zealand's first Supreme Court judges.

In 1953, Gresson was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. In the 1958 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services as president of the Court of Appeal.