Arthur Grigg

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Grigg in 1938

Arthur Nattle Grigg MC (1896 – 29 November 1941) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

|} Grigg was born in 1896 to farmer John Charles Nattle Grigg and Alice Montgomerie Hutton, making him a grandson of prominent Canterbury runholder John Grigg. He was educated at Christ's College and was to become a farmer upon completing his education.Template:R

During World War I Grigg served in the Royal Field Artillery from 1916 to 1919. After returning home he married Mary Cracroft Wilson in 1920, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.Template:R Grigg represented the electorate of Mid-Canterbury in Parliament from the Template:NZ election link, when he defeated Horace Herring. He was a Major in the NZEF in World War II, and was killed on 29 November 1941 when Brigadier Hargest's headquarters in Libya was overrun.Template:R He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.

Prime Minister Peter Fraser described Grigg as "a young member of ability and promise". His widow Mary Grigg succeeded him in the Mid-Canterbury electorate and became the first woman National MP, but retired when she remarried.

References

• The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland) Template:ISBN