Dame Daphne Purves, a Dunedin woman with a long list of educational achievements has died, aged 99.
She was just three weeks short of her 100th birthday.
Dame Daphne Purves, who held a Master of Arts in languages including French, created a language department at Dunedin Teachers College during her lifetime.
She was also the subject of a biography, Nothing Like a Dame, by Molly Anderson.
