Arthur Grigg
Arthur Nattle Grigg 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.
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. Grigg represented the electorate of Mid-Canterbury in Parliament from the, 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. 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.
