Vivienne Boyd

Dame Vivienne Myra Boyd (née Lowe, 11 April 1926 – 13 July 2011) was a New Zealand woman active in community and public affairs.

Early life and family Born Vivienne Myra Lowe in Lower Hutt on 11 April 1926, Boyd was the daughter of Winifred and Hugh Lowe. She was educated at Hutt Valley High School from 1940 to 1943, and then studied at Victoria University College, graduating Master of Science with third-class honours in 1948.

In 1948, she married Robert Macdonald Boyd, and the couple went on to have four children. and then in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was promoted to Dame Commander of the same order, for public and community services.

Death Boyd died in Lower Hutt in 2011, and was buried in the Taita Old Cemetery. She had been predeceased by her husband, Robert, in 2004.