New Zealand lecturer and a previous Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington
"Pay Packets & Stone Walls: A Memoir of Women's Causes and Love of the Land"
"Women at work: a Guide to Employment and Training Opportunities for Women Returning to Work" (1968)
"Keeping New Zealand Green: Our Forests - and Their Future" (2017)
Later life
Orr married Secretary for Justice and Waitangi Tribunal member Gordon Orr. In 1997 Elizabeth Orr became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and the community. In the same year she was also made an honorary Doctor of Literature by the Victoria University of Wellington Council. Orr held conservationist views around the protection of native fauna in New Zealand and in 2017 she published a history of the New Zealand Forest Service, including detailing her father's work as Director of Forestry between 1939 and 1961.
Orr died in Wellington on 22 April 2021 aged 91.