the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB). Grey was invested with his insignia on the 18 November 1848 by the Chief Justice of New Zealand, (William, later Sir William, Martin) in a special ceremony for which he chose two Maori chiefs as his esquires (supporters). They were Tamati Waka Nene , Nga Puhi, and Honiana Te Puni-kokopu , Te Ati Awa. Thus, there was an important Maori element in the first investiture in New Zealand. It was not until 1911, when James Carroll was made a Knight Bachelor, that a Maori was knighted. Sir Charles Clifford , first Speaker of the House of Representatives, was in 1858 the first person in New Zealand to be made a Knight Bachelor. He was created a Baronet in 1887. Sir James Mills , who was born in Wellington on 30 July 1847, in 1907 became the first New Zealand born Knight Bachelor. He had a rapid preferment with a KCMG in 1909. The first woman to be invested with an honour in New Zealand was Miss A Crisp. In 1883 she was invested with the Royal Red Cross (RRC) by the Governor, Sir William Jervois , in recognition of her nursing services with British troops in Zululand and Egypt. The first New Zealand woman to receive a Royal honour was Matron (Miss) J W M Williamson who received the RRC in 1901 for nursing services with the New Zealand contingents in the South African War. The first civilian