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Biography: Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, 1982

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner, 1982

Bob Tulloch took this photograph of Sylvia Ashton-Warner in 1982, the year she received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list. By this time Ashton-Warner was living in Tauranga, and was ill with bowel cancer. She died in April 1984.

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by Bob Tulloch

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Sue Middleton. 'Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2011. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33261/sylvia-ashton-warner-1982 (accessed 4 June 2026).