Paddy Bassett

Bassett in 2003

Elsie Gertrude "Paddy" Bassett (née Thorpe, 15 July 1918 – 20 July 2019) was a New Zealand agricultural scientist. She graduated from Massey Agricultural College in 1941, becoming the first woman graduate from that institution.[1][2][3] Bassett was also one of the first two women students accepted into Canterbury Agricultural College (now Lincoln University).[4]

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