Stuart Keith Spry MBE (1911 – 14 October 1991) was a New Zealand swimmer, conservationist and local politician.

[3] He supported the move by councillor George Porter to formalise town planning procedure and inserted provisions to incentivize developers to preserve areas for open space so locals can use them for recreation.

Spry was affectionately known as "Mr Parks" for his advocacy and was labelled as "...a 'greenie' long before the word was ever coined".

He stood in Karori in both 1957 and 1963 finishing in second place on both occasions to future Prime Minister Jack Marshall.

[10] In 1969 he unsuccessfully contested the Labour pre-selection for Island Bay following the retirement of Arnold Nordmeyer, however he lost to fellow city councillor Gerald O'Brien.

While supporting reclamation in Wellington city, he opposed similar development in Petone as it would have infringed on the "Queen's Chain" (a 20 metre strip of land near the mouth of the Hutt River) which had been reserved in 1840 to allow free access.

He also successfully lobbied for Somes Island to be repurposed from a quarantine station to a dedicated area for conservation and scientific research.

[15] Spry was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to local-body and community affairs.