Arthur Grigg
New Zealand politician
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Arthur Nattle Grigg MC (1896 – 29 November 1941) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938–1941 | 26th | Mid-Canterbury | National | ||
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.[1]
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.[1] Grigg represented the electorate of Mid-Canterbury in Parliament from the 1938 election, when he defeated Horace Herring.[2] He was a Major in the NZEF in World War II, and was killed on 29 November 1941[3] when Brigadier Hargest's headquarters in Libya was overrun.[1] He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.[4]
Prime Minister Peter Fraser described Grigg as "a young member of ability and promise".[1] His widow Mary Grigg succeeded him in the Mid-Canterbury electorate[3] and became the first woman National MP, but retired when she remarried.[5]
