Arthur Nattle Grigg MC (1896 – 29 November 1941) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
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.[1] He was a Major in the NZEF in World War II, and was killed on 29 November 1941[2] when Brigadier Hargest's headquarters in Libya was overrun. He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.[3]
Prime Minister Peter Fraser described Grigg as "a young member of ability and promise".[4] His widow Mary Grigg succeeded him in the Mid-Canterbury electorate and became the first woman National MP, but retired when she remarried.
. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 . Guy Scholefield . 3rd . First ed. published 1913 . 1950 . Govt. Printer . Wellington . 110.