Education
Victoria University of Wellington.
Governor-General of New Zealand
Victoria University of Wellington.
After his schooling at Hataitai School and Wellington College, he gained Bachelor and Bachelor of Laws degrees from Victoria University College. Hardie Boys married Mary Zohrab in 1957. A lawyer by profession, Hardie Boys became a of New Zealand in 1980 and was elevated to the Court of Appeal and appointed as a Privy Counsellor.
In 1994 he was elected as an Honorary Bencher at Gray"s Inn, and in 1995 became an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
He is also a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson. and is also a Knight of the Order of Street John of Jerusalem. On 21 March 1996, Hardie Boys was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of her Prime Minister, Jim Bolger, as the of New Zealand.
Controversies
In 1996, Hardie Boys caused controversy by stating his opposition to Minister of Youth Affairs Deborah Morris"s suggestion that young people have access to contraceptives. Later, in 2001, he created further controversy by making an implied attack on the Clark Labour Government"s scrapping of the air defence wing of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Since his retirement as, Hardie Boys has served as a Judge of the Kiribati Court of Appeal.
He now lives at Waikanae. In 2004, he announced his opposition to New Zealand becoming a republic stating in an interview: "If it ain"t broke, don"t fix lieutenant".