Gray Nelson

Gray Nelson (born 1928) is a former New Zealand Public Servant and Diplomat. He spent his childhood in Epsom and was educated at St Peter's College where he was a foundation pupil in 1939. He began working in the New Zealand Parliament in 1952[1] and was Prime Minister's Private Secretary to five New Zealand Prime Ministers: Keith Holyoake, John Marshall, Norman Kirk,[1] Robert Muldoon,[2] and Michael Moore. He also held the diplomatic position of Counsellor at the New Zealand High Commission to the United Kingdom, 1976-1980[3]

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.
3. Margaret Clarke (ed), Muldoon Revisited, Dunmore Press, 2004, p. 105.