Agnes Benidickson

Agnes McCausland Benidickson (born 1920) was the first female Chancellor of Queen's University from 1980 to 1996.

Born in Chaffeys Locks , Ontario, the daughter of the former Queen's Chancellor James Armstrong Richardson, Sr. , who served from 1929 to 1939, she was raised in Winnipeg. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Queen's in 1941, and a LL.D. in 1979. She is the sister of the Honourable James A. Richardson, who was a Trudeau era Liberal MP and Cabinet minister.

She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1987 and promoted to a Companion in 1998. In 1987 she received an honourary Doctors of Law degree from the University of British Columbia. In 1991 she was awarded the Order of Ontario.

In 1947 she married William Moore Benidickson (1911–1985), a former Liberal MP, Cabinet minister and Senator.

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