Sir Patrick Jerad O'Dea (18 April 1918 â 28 August 2010) was a senior New Zealand public servant who organised royal tours of New Zealand. He was educated in Dunedin at the Christian Brothers School (now called Kavanagh College)
O'Dea died on 28 August 2010, aged 92, after a long retirement in Waikanae, where he is buried.