Marianne Smith

Marianne Smith MBE (born Mary Anne Caughey; 10 March 1851 – 1 September 1938), and known as Marianne Caughey Preston since 1932, was a notable New Zealand businesswoman, community worker and philanthropist.

Mary Anne Caughey was born in Portaferry, County Down, Ireland, in 1851.

[1] In the 1935 King's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for philanthropic services.

[3] In 2009, Smith was posthumously inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.

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