Final Years
During his last decade Beaglehole was showered with honorary degrees from universities at home and abroad and other distinctions. Perhaps the most prestigious was the award in 1970 of the British Order of Merit. He was only the second New Zealander ever to receive this award, the first being the nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford. Just before he died in 1971 Beaglehole was in process of revising his detailed and authoritative biography of Cook, which was subsequently prepared for publication by his son Tim (currently Chancellor and Emeritus Professor at Victoria).
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