Gray Nelson [SEP] country of citizenship
Gray Nelson
Gray Nelson (born 1927) 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 and was Prime Minister's Private Secretary to five New Zealand Prime Ministers: Keith Holyoake, John Marshall, Norman Kirk, Robert Muldoon, and Michael Moore. He also held the diplomatic position of Counsellor at the New Zealand High Commission to the United Kingdom
at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra). The position was part-time (like the Nelson job); to support herself and her children, she joined the Australian News and Information Bureau (ANIB) and applied for Australian citizenship. Dowse was obligated to renounce her U.S. citizenship, since dual citizenship was not an option in either country at the time.
The first election in which she voted was in December 1972. Under the new Whitlam Labor government, the ANIB became the Australian