Major Arthur Nattle Grigg, MC

Arthur Nattle Grigg (1896 – 29 November 1941) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was educated at Christ's College and was a farmer.

He represented the electorate of Mid-Canterbury in Parliament from the 1938 election, 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.

His wife Mary Grigg succeeded him in the Mid-Canterbury electorate and became the first woman National MP, but retired when she remarried.

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• Rank: Major
• Service No: 31627
• Date of Death: 29/11/1941
• Age: 45
• Regiment/Service:New Zealand Artillery 5 Field Regt.
• Awards: M C, Mentioned in Despatches
• Grave Reference: 9. E. 5.
• Cemetery: HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY
• Additional Information: Son of John Charles Nattle Grigg and of Alice Montgomerie Grigg (nee Hutton), of Longbeach, Canterbury, New Zealand; husband of Mary Victoria Cracroft Grigg, of Ashburton, Canterbury. M.P. for Mid Canterbury, New Zealand.

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• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via wife Mary Victoria Cracroft Grigg (born Wilson) by SmartCopy: May 25 2015, 21:41:10 UTC