Biography: Porritt, Arthur Espie

Sir Arthur Porritt and Brian Barratt-Boyes

Sir Arthur Porritt (left) with surgeon Brian Barratt-Boyes, whom he knighted at the Auckland Museum in 1971.

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Diana Beaglehole. 'Porritt, Arthur Espie', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000, updated May 2002. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47480/sir-arthur-porritt-and-brian-barratt-boyes (accessed 4 June 2026).