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 and was Prime Minister's Private Secretary to five New Zealand Prime Ministers: Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Norman Kirk, Bill Rowling, Robert Muldoon, and Michael Moore. He also held the diplomatic position of Counsellor at the New Zealand High Commission to the United Kingdom, 1978-1981. He has three children, Terry, Catherine and Robert. Married Nov 1956 to the late Mary Anne Butler O’Connell.