Lydia Joyce Wevers ONZM: academic; b March 19, 1950; d September 4, 2021With the passing of Lydia Wevers, professor emerita​ at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand has lost one of its pre-eminent public intellectuals. After the war Joyce married Bart Wevers, an architect; the family emigrated to New Zealand in 1953. Kevin Stent/Stuff Lydia Wevers: “academic mentor, an astute and acute ally, an avid gardener, a passionate walker, and generous host. Following marriage to much-loved husband Alastair Bisley, she took a break from full-time academic life, accompanying him to diplomatic posts in Brussels, Geneva, and Sydney. Kent Blechynden/Stuff Wevers said of herself: “I suffer from an illness, an illness which has no cure, no limit and no end.

Source: Stuff September 10, 2021 16:52 UTC