Arthur Grigg

Who was Arthur Grigg?

Arthur Nattle Grigg 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.