prime minister, Edmund Barton, was knighted during his term in 1902). On 29 April 1964 Menzies was awarded the honorary degree of a Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by the University of Western Australia. Menzies was also awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of New South Wales. In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class (other Australian prime ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam). On 7 June 1976, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of Australia (AK). The category of Knight of the order had been created only on 24 May, and the Chancellor and Principal Knight of the Order, the Governor-General Sir John Kerr, became the first appointee, ex officio. Menzies's was the first appointment made after this. In 1984, the Australian Electoral Commission proclaimed at a redistribution on 14 September 1984, the Division of Menzies for representation in the Australian House of Representatives in honour of the former prime minister. The division neighbours Menzies's old division of Kooyong in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria. In 1994, the year of the centenary of Menzies's birth, the Menzies Research Centre was created as an independent public policy think tank associated with the Liberal Party. In 2009, during the Australia Day celebrations, the R.G. Menzies Walk was officially opened by the then Governor-General, Quentin Bryce. The walk runs alongside the northern shore of Lake Burley Griffin in Australia's capital, Canberra. In 2012, a life-sized bronze statue of Menzies was erected on the R.G. Menzies Walk. Sir Robert Menzies Park, in Wahroonga, New South Wales Sir Robert Menzies Reserve, in Malvern, Victoria The high-rise Menzies building on the Clayton campus of Monash University Decorations 1950, he was appointed a Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit 1951, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) 1963, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle (KT) 1973, he was appointed a Grand Cordon First Class of the Order of the Rising Sun 1976, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of Australia (AK) Medals 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal 1937, he was awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal 1953, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal Freedom of the City 29 April 1941: Swansea