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Darryl Stevens

civil society leader from New Zealand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ111913244 ↗
Source-derived summary

Darryl Maurice Stevens MNZM is a civil society leader from New Zealand. He is an advocate for the role of the Commonwealth of Nations as a global community. He is the Pacific Regional Coordinator of the Royal Commonwealth Society and was the founding Chair of the Board of Commonwealth Youth New Zealand.

In the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours, Stevens was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to youth and the Commonwealth.

Editorial summary

“Darryl Stevens” enters the record as civil society leader from New Zealand. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Darryl, Stevens and civil can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Darryl, Stevens and civil.
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Why this record matters

“Darryl Stevens” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Darryl, Stevens and civil provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111913244. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Darryl Stevens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.