Gray Nelson

Gray Nelson (born Graydon Brian Nelson 08 May 1927) is a former New Zealand Public Servant and Diplomat. He spent his childhood in Taranaki then Epsom and was educated at St Peter's College where he was a foundation pupil in 1939. He began working in the Department of Lands and Surveyin 1952 and later in the New Zealand Parliament[1] and was Prime Minister's Private Secretary to five New Zealand Prime Ministers: Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Norman Kirk,[1] Bill Rowling, Robert Muldoon,[2] and Michael Moore. He also held the diplomatic position of Counsellor at the New Zealand High Commission to the United Kingdom, 1978-1981.[2] He has three children, Terry, Catherine and Robert. Married Nov 1956 to the late Mary Anne Butler O’Connell.

References
  1. Grant, David (2014), The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk, Auckland, NZ: Random House, p. 227, ISBN 978 1 77553 579 9
  2. R.D. Muldoon, Muldooon, A H & A W Reed, Wellington, 1977, p. 142.


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