Gordon Grieve

Gordon Glendinning Grieve QSO (21 August 1912 – 17 October 1993) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
19571960 32nd Awarua National
19601963 33rd Awarua National
19631966 34th Awarua National
19661969 35th Awarua National

Grieve was born in 1912 in Otahuti, Southland, a locality north-west of Invercargill. He attended Otahuti School and became a farmer. He was active with the Southland A & P Association.[1]

He represented the Awarua electorate from 1957 to 1969, when he retired.[2] A Presbyterian, in 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.

In the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours Grieve was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.[3]

Notes

  1. Gustafson 1986, p. 316.
  2. Wilson 1985, p. 201.
  3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 48214. p. 40. 13 June 1980. Retrieved 23 March 2015.

References

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
George Richard Herron
Member of Parliament for Awarua
19571969
Succeeded by
Hugh Templeton


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