Mary Grigg

Mary Victoria Cracroft Grigg, Lady Polson, MBE (1897–1971) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

She represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate in Parliament from 1942 after the death (on 29 November 1941) of her husband Arthur Nattle Grigg who she had married in 1920, and who had held the seat from 1938. She retired on 30 August 1943 though, and, according to the New Zealand Parliamentary Record, married William Polson MP on 29 June 1943. She was awarded a M.B.E. in 1946.

She was the fourth woman to be elected to Parliament after Elizabeth McCombs, Catherine Stewart and Mary Dreaver, and the first woman not from the Labour Party to be elected. Her maternal grandfather was Premier Sir John Hall.

Lady Polson was the President of Victoria League Canterbury from 1965 to 1970.

References

• The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland) ISBN 0474001776
• New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)

External links

• Women's suffrage milestones
• Victoria League Canterbury

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Name	Grigg, Mary
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Date of birth	1897
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Date of death	1971
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