Arthur Grigg

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

[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.

[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.