Theodore Rigg


Sir Theodore Rigg was a New Zealand agricultural chemist and scientific administrator.
He was born in Settle, Yorkshire, England in 1888. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1938 New Year Honours. He died in Nelson on 22 October 1972, survived by his second wife, mycologist Kathleen Curtis, and two daughters from his first marriage. His ashes were buried at Marsden Valley Cemetery.