Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

GREVILLE, Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1 Baron (2 son of Algernon Greville of North Lodge, Herts. 1791–1857). b. 17 Feb. 1821; col. of Westmeath militia 22 Aug. 1850 to death; M.P. for co. Longford 1852–69; assumed additional surname of Nugent by r.l. 8 Aug. 1866; cr. Baron Greville of Clonyn, co. Westmeath, in peerage of the U.K. 15 Dec. 1869; lord lieutenant of Westmeath 27 March 1871 to death. d. Clonyn castle, Delvin 25 Jany. 1883.

GREVILLE, Algernon Frederick (2 son of Charles Greville 1762–1832). b. 29 Dec. 1798; ensign 1 foot guards 1814, present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; aide-de-camp to general Sir John Lambert and then to the Duke of Wellington until 1818; aide-de-camp to the Duke in the ordnance office 1819; private sec. to the Duke 1827–30, 1834–35, 1842; Bath and Gloucester king of arms 1830 to death, d. Hillingdon, Middlesex 15 Dec. 1864.

GREVILLE, Charles Cavendish Fulke (brother of the preceding). b. 2 April 1794, educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1810–14; page to George iii; private sec. to earl of Bathurst 1814; sec. of Jamaica, performed the duties by a deputy; clerk of privy council 1821, resigned May 1859; member of jockey club, managed racing establishment of Duke of York 1821–26; won the St. Leger with Mango 1837; kept a political diary 1818–60 which was published in 3 vols. 1874, 3 vols. 1885 and 2 vols. 1887, the first series was suppressed and reprinted in an expurgated edition; author of many pamphlets, d. 16 Bruton st. London the residence of Earl Granville 18 Jany. 1865. The Greville Memoirs, i, pp. x-xi (1874); Baily’s Mag. vii, 217–21 (1864), portrait; Sporting Rev. xli, 138–43 (1859), liii, 75–80 (1865).

GREVILLE, Henry William (younger brother of the preceding). b. 28 Oct. 1801; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823; present at Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels 15 June 1815; private sec. to Lord Francis Egerton chief sec. for Ireland 1828–30; precis writer to Viscount Palmerston 1834; first paid attaché to British embassy in Paris 1835–44; kept a diary which was edited by Viscountess Enfield as Leaves from the diary of H. Greville 2 vols. 1883–4. d. 19 Queen st. Mayfair, London 12 Dec. 1872. Leaves from the diary, second series (1884) v-viii, portrait.

GREVILLE, Robert Kaye (1 son of Rev. Robert Greville 1760–1830, R. of Edlaston, Derby). b. Bishop Auckland, Durham 13 Dec. 1794; educ. in medicine in London and Edin.; member of Wernerian soc. 1816; F.R.S. Edin. 1821, LLD. Glasgow 1824; lecturer on zoology and botany in Edin.; made large collections of plants, insects, crustacea and mollusks; collected 15,000 botanical specimens for Botanical soc. of Edin. 1837; his algæ went to the British museum, his insects to the univ. of Edin., his flowering plants to univ. of Glasgow, and his cryptogamic plants to Edin. botanic gardens; fell into poverty and painted landscapes for a living; author of Scottish Cryptogamic flora 6 vols. 1823–8; Flora Edinensis 1824; Algæ Britannicæ 1830 and 6 other books; with W. J. Hooker he published Icones filicum 2 vols. 1829–31. d. Ormelie villa, Murrayfield near Edinburgh 4 June 1866. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edin. vi, 25–7 (1869); Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. viii, 464.

GREY, Charles (2 son of 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845). b. Howick house, Bilton, Northumberland 15 March 1804; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 1820; lieut. col. 71 foot 1833–42 when placed on h.p.; col. of 3 foot 1860, of 71 foot 1863 to death; general 29 Aug. 1868; M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1831–37; treasurer and private sec. to Prince Consort 10 Oct. 1849 to his death 14 Dec. 1861; private sec. to the Queen 3 March 1866 to death; author of Some account of the life of Charles, second Earl Grey 1861; The early years of the Prince Consort 1867. d. St. James’s palace, London 31 March 1870. More leaves from a journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 67, portrait; I.L.N. lvi, 386, 416 (1870), portrait.

GREY, Sir Charles Edward (younger son of Ralph Wm. Grey of Backworth, Northumberland). b. 1785; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Oriel coll. 1808; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; a bankruptcy commissioner 1817; judge of supreme court of Madras 17 May 1820 to 1825; knighted by George iv. at Carlton house 17 May 1820; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 2 Feb. 1825 to 1832; a commissioner for affairs of Lower Canada 19 June 1835 to 1836; P.C. 1 July 1835; G.C.H. 1837; contested Tynemouth 1837, M.P. for Tynemouth 1838–41; governor of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Trinidad and St. Lucia 24 Aug. 1841 to 1 Oct. 1846; governor of Jamaica 26 Sep. 1846 to Aug. 1853. d. Tunbridge Wells 1 June 1865.

GREY, Sir Frederick William (3 son of 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845). b. 23 Aug. 1805; entered navy 18 Jany. 1819; captain 19 April 1828; rear admiral superintendent in the Bosphorus, Jany. 1855 to July 1856; a lord of the admiralty, June 1861 to June 1866, admiral 24 April 1865, retired 23 Aug. 1870; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; author of On the organization of the navy 1860. d. Linwood near Staines 2 May 1878.

GREY, Sir George, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir George Grey, 1 bart., d. 3 Oct. 1828). b. Gibraltar 11 May 1799; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 2 May 1826; M.P. Devonport 1832–47; M.P. North Northumberland 1847–52; M.P. Morpeth 1853–74; under sec. of state, colonies 1834–5 and 1835–39; judge advocate general 1839–41; sec. of state home department 1846–52, 1855–8, and 1861–6; sec. of state colonies 1854–5; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1841 and 1859–61; P.C. 1 March 1839; ecclesiastical commissioner Feb. 1841; G.C.B. 31 March 1849; prevented the chartists under Smith O’Brien invading house of commons with their monster petition 10 April 1848; retired on a pension of £2,000. d. Fallodon, Northumberland 9 Sept. 1882. M. Creighton’s Memoir of Sir G. Grey (1884), portrait; I.L.N. xxii 240 (1853), xxxv 586, 588 (1859), lxxxi 340 (1882), portrait.

GREY, Rev. Henry (son of a medical man). b. Alnwick, Northumberland 11 Feb. 1778; presbyterian minister of Stenton, East Lothian 1801 to 1813, of St. Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1813, of the new North Church 1821, of St. Mary’s 1825, of St. Mary’s Free church 1843; president of Free church general assembly 1844; presented with a testimonial 1863, which was turned into the Grey scholarships in New coll. Edin.; had a conflict with Dr. Andrew Thompson on the Apocrypha 1829; author of A catechism on baptism 4 ed. 1842 and various pamphlets. d. Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1859. C. M. Birrell’s Thoughts in the evening of life (1871), portrait.

GREY, Sir John (younger son of Charles Grey of Morwick, Northumberland). Ensign 75 foot 18 July 1798; major 5 foot 1811–16 when placed on h.p.; served in India 1799 etc., in Peninsula 1806 etc.; held a divisional command in Bengal 1840–45, at head of left wing of army of Gwalior defeated the Mahratta army of 12,000 men at Punniar on 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 2 May 1844; col. 73 foot 1846–9; col. 5 foot 1849 to death; commander in chief Bombay 30 Dec. 1850 to Nov. 1852; general 20 Feb. 1855. d. Morwick hall 19 Feb. 1856. Canon’s Records of 5th Fusiliers (1838) 75 etc.

GREY, John (eld. child of George Grey of West Ord near Berwick, d. 1793). b. Millfield Hill, Glendale, Aug. 1785; took part in agitation for Catholic emancipation and in struggle which preceded Reform bill of 1832; had charge of the Greenwich hospital estates in Northumberland and Cumberland 1833–63; made improvements in farming and in rearing cattle. d. Lipwood house on the Tyne near Haydon bridge 22 Jany. 1868. Memoir of John Grey of Dilston (1874); Saddle and sirloin by the Druid (1878) pp. 121–8, portrait.

GREY, Ralph William (son of R. W. Grey of Backworth house, Northumberland). b. 1819; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840; private sec. to Lord Sydenham governor general of Canada 1839; private sec. to Lord John Russell 1850; M.P. Tynemouth 1847–52; M.P. Liskeard 1854–9; parliamentary sec. poor law board 28 Jany. 1851 to 3 March 1852 and 1856–58; a commissioner of the customs 1859 to death; of Chipchase castle, Northumberland. d. Wimbledon 1 Oct. 1869.

GREY, Sir William (4 son of Rt. Rev. Edward Grey 1782–1837, bp. of Hereford). b. 26 March 1818; matric from Ch. Ch. Ox. 19 May 1836; clerk in war office; at Haileybury coll. 1839–40; private sec. to Sir H. Maddock, dep. governor of Lower Bengal 1845; sec. of Bank of Bengal 1851–4; sec. to government of Bengal 1854–7; sec. to government of India in home department 1859, member of council of governor general 1862–7; lieut. governor of Bengal 1867 to Feb. 1871; governor of Jamaica, March 1874 to March 1877; K.C.S.I. 28 May 1870. d. Parkfield, Marldon near Torquay 15 May 1878.

GRIERSON, Crighton. Second lieut. R.E. 1 June 1810, lieut. col. 1 April 1846 to 1 Sep. 1847 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871. d. 14 Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 7 Nov. 1871 aged 81.

GRIERSON, James. b. 10 Oct. 1827; traffic manager Shrewsbury and Birmingham railway 1851; goods manager Great Western railway 1857 and general manager Oct. 1863 to death, by his management raised the stock from £47 to £135; author of Railway rates, English and Foreign 1886; his residence 4 Holland villas road, Kensington, damaged by fire 1887. d. Bridge house, Marlow 7 Oct. 1887. bur. Barnes cemetery 12 Oct. London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 6, portrait; Herapath’s Railway Journal 15 Oct. 1887 p. 1064.

GRIESS, John Peter. F.R.S. 4 June 1868; F.C.S.; of Burton on Trent. d. Bournemouth 30 Aug. 1888 aged 60.

GRIEVE, Thomas (son of John Henderson Grieve, scene painter). b. Lambeth, London 11 June 1799; scene painter Covent Garden 1839, Drury Lane 1862; painted diorama of Overland Mail 1850; with W. Telbin and John Absolon painted panorama of Campaigns of Wellington 1852, and panoramas of the Ocean Mail, the Crimean War and the Arctic regions. d. 1 Palace road, Lambeth 16 April 1882.

GRIFFIES-WILLIAMS, Worshipful Sir Erasmus Henry, 2 Baronet (2 son of Sir George Griffies-Williams, d. 28 March 1843). b. Llwyn-y-Wormwood 22 July 1794; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Rushall, Wilts. 1829 to death; R. of Marlborough 1830 to 1858; chancellor of St. David’s cathedral 1858 to death; author of A letter on the repeal of the corn laws 1846; The supremacy of the sovereign asserted 1850. d. Llandovery 30 Nov. 1870.

GRIFFIES-WILLIAMS, Sir Watkin Lewes, 3 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. 1800; entered Madras army 12 June 1819; col. of 3 Madras light infantry 29 Jany. 1854 to 1869; general 25 July 1870. d. 38 Elgin road, Notting hill, London 23 May 1877.

GRIFFIN, Charles (only son of R. Griffin of Glasgow, bookseller, d. Nov. 1832 aged 43). b. London 1819; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; bookseller with John Joseph Griffin in Glasgow 1836–53 and in London 1847–53; bought the Encyclopædia Metropolitana for £5,000 about 1847; bookseller alone in Glasgow 1853–9; left Glasgow and managed London business 1859–61; partner with Henry Bohn in Stationers’ hall court, Jany. 1861 to death. d. Combe lodge, Swanscombe, Kent 5 Aug. 1862. Bookseller 30 Aug. 1862 p. 561, 30 Sept. p. 616.

GRIFFIN, Right Rev. Henry (2 son of John Griffin, deputy registrar of deeds in Ireland). b. Wexford 10 July 1786; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1798; scholar 1802, fellow 1811–29, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1814; R. of Clonfeacle, Armagh to 1854; Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, consecrated 1 Jany. 1854. d. the university club, 17 Stephen’s Greennorth, Dublin 5 April 1866. bur. Benburt, co. Tyrone.

GRIFFIN, John Joseph. b. London 1802; bookseller, publisher and dealer in chemical apparatus at Glasgow to 1852, partly edited Encyclopædia Metropolitana; chemical apparatus dealer as J. J. Griffin & Sons, 22 Garrick st. Covent Garden, London 1852 to death; a founder of Chemical soc. 1840; devised new forms of chemical apparatus; author of Chemical recreations 1834, 10 ed. 1860; Treatise on the blowpipe 18—; The chemical testing of wines and spirits 1866, 2 ed. 1872 and other books. d. 31 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 9 June 1877. Journ. Chemical soc. xxxiii, 229 (1878).

GRIFFITH, Edward (son of William Griffith of Stanwell, Middlesex). b. 1790; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1800–1806; clerk of common pleas office; master of court of common pleas 1837 to death; F.R.S.; F.L.S.; F.S.A.; author of General descriptions of the vertebrated animals, monkeys and lemurs 1821; The Animal kingdom 15 vols. 1832 with other writers, and other books. d. 32 Fitzroy sq. London 8 Jany. 1858.

GRIFFITH, George (son of John Wynne Griffith, M.P. of Garn near Rhyl, co. Denbigh, d. 1834). b. 1790; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1830; recorder of Denbigh 1834 to death. d. Garn, Denbigh 23 April 1877 in 88 year.

GRIFFITH, George. Clerk in a corn merchant’s office in Bewdley; author of The free schools of Worcestershire 1852; Life of George Wilson 1854; The endowed schools of England and Ireland 1864; Going to markets and grammar schools, records in the Midland counties 2 vols. 1870 and other books. d. Bewdley 1883. J. R. Burton’s Bewdley (1883) 61.

GRIFFITH, Henry Darby (youngest son of major general Darby Griffith of Pardworth house, Berks.) b. 22 May 1810; ensign 4 foot 25 Nov. 1828; captain 2 dragoons 1839, lieut. col. 27 Aug. 1852; at battles of Balaklava, Inkerman and Tchernaya and siege and fall of Sebastopol; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; col. 5 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Bushy Ruff house near Dover 17 Nov. 1887.

GRIFFITH, Rev. John. b. 1789 or 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, Bell’s univ. scholar 1810, 8 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1822, D.D. 1831; fellow of Em. coll. 1814, tutor 1818–27; chaplain to Lord Amherst in China 1816, wrecked in the Alceste on Gaspar island 18 Nov. 1817; canon of Rochester 1827–72; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1830–32; V. of Boxley, Kent 1832–53; prosecuted Strahan, Paul and Bates bankers for having unlawfully disposed of deeds valued at £22,000, defendants sentenced to 14 years’ transportation 26 Oct. 1855. d. 3 Bay’s hill lawn, Cheltenham 29 May 1879.

GRIFFITH, Julius George. First lieut. Bombay artillery 27 May 1810, col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; general 7 Sep. 1866. d. Boulogne 31 July 1872 in 81 year.

GRIFFITH, Sir Richard John, 1 Baronet (only son of Richard Griffith of Milicent, co. Kildare 1752–1820). b. Hume st. Dublin 20 Sep. 1784; lieut. R. Irish Artill. 1799; inspector general of royal mines in Ireland 1809; mining engineer and professor of geology to Royal Dublin Soc. 1812; sole comr. for general valuation of land in Ireland 1827–68; deputy chairman of board of public works Ireland 1846, chairman 1854–64; F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1854 for his geological map of Ireland; M.I.C.E. 1839; created baronet 20 April 1858; author of Geological and mining report on the Leinster coal district 1814. d. 2 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Sep. 1878. Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiii, 432–37 (1874), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 17–20 (1880); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 39–41 (1879).

GRIFFITH, Rev. Thomas. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1832; min. of Ram’s Epis. chap. Homerton 1830–72; prebendary of Sneating in St. Paul’s cath. 1862–80; author of The leading idea of christianity investigated 1833; Our baptismal standing 1850; Studies of the divine master 1875 and 25 other books. d. 8 Clapton sq. Clapton 24 Aug. 1883.

GRIFFITH, Rev. William (son of Rev. William Griffith d. 1860). b. London 1806; Wesleyan M. minister 1828; connected with the issuing of the Fly sheets 1847; expelled by the Wesleyan Methodist conference in company with Rev. James Everett and Rev. Samuel Dunn 25 July 1849; minister of Methodist free churches 1857 to death. d. Derby 12 July 1883. I.L.N. xv, 187–8 (1849), portrait; Christian World 19 July 1883 p. 481.

GRIFFITH, William Darling (son of A. F. Griffith, head of Longman’s old book department). b. 18 Oct. 1805; learnt bookselling with Hamilton, Adams and Co.; publisher St. Paul’s churchyard to 1843; partner with E. C. Grant 1843 to 1856 as Grant and Griffith, booksellers; partner with Robert Farran, June 1856 to death. d. 6 York villa, Campden hill, London 20 Feb. 1877. Bookseller, March 1877 p. 218.

GRIFFITH, William Petit (son of John William Griffith, architect, d. 27 Nov. 1855 aged 65). b. 9 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell, London 7 July 1815; F.S.A. 12 May 1842; F.R.I.B.A. 14 June 1847; some of his work was the reparation of St. John ch. Clerkenwell 1845, the restoration of St. John’s gate 1845–6, designing Cherrytree tavern, Clerkenwell 1852, the goldsmiths’ and jewellers’ annuity institution asylum 1853, designing the house of detention, Kingston-on-Thames; author of The geometrical proportion of architecture 1843; Ancient Gothic churches 3 parts 1847–52; Suggestions for a more perfect period of gothic architecture 1855. d. 3 Isledon road, Highbury, London 14 Sept. 1884.

GRIFFITHS, Rev. David. b. Glanmeilwch, Llangadoc, Carmarthenshire 20 Dec. 1792; schoolmaster Cwmaman 1811–12; in Madagascar as a missionary 1821–35 and 1838–42; established a church, day and night schools, a printing press and printed the New Testament 1831; condemned to death but sentence commuted to a fine 1839; pastor of congregational ch. Hay, Brecknockshire 1842; spent 5 years revising Madagascar scriptures 1852–7; author of History of Madagascar, in Welsh; The Persecuted Christians of Madagascar 1841 and works in the Malagasy tongue. d. Machynlleth, Montgomerys. 21 March 1863. Rees and Thomas’ Eglwysi Annybynol Cymru, iv, 359–61.

GRIFFITHS, Evan. b. Gellibeblig, Glamorganshire 1795; ed. at a college at Newport, Monmouth; pastor of churches in Gower; went to Swansea and translated Matthew Henry’s commentary into Welsh, acting also as the printer and collecting subscriptions for the work 1828, etc.; author of Welsh English dictionary, Abertawy 1847 and many works in the Welsh language 1839–56. d. Swansea 31 Aug. 1873. Rees and Thomas’ Eglwysi Annybynol Cymru, iv.

GRIFFITHS, Frederick Augustus. Ensign R.A. 13 Dec. 1813; major on retired full pay 28 Nov. 1854; author of The Artillerists’ manual and compendium of infantry exercise, Woolwich 1839, 10 ed. 1868; Notes on military law, Woolwich 1841. d. St. Mary Bourne near Andover 25 March 1869 aged 73.

GRIFFITHS, Frederick Charles. Cornet 2 dragoon guards 17 June 1824; lieut. col. 10 dragoons 11 Nov. 1851, of 9 dragoons 25 May 1855, of 12 Lancers 14 Oct. 1856 to 12 Dec. 1857; M.G. 12 Dec. 1857. d. Westbourne place, Eaton sq. London 15 March 1858 aged 53.

GRIFFITHS, Rev. John (son of Dr. John Griffiths, head master Rochester gr. sch.) b. 1807; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1824–30, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1872, fellow 1830–54, subwarden 1837–54, hon. fellow 1868, warden 4 Nov. 1871 to Sep. 1881; keeper of the university archives 1857 to death; one of the four tutors who signed the protest against Newman’s Tract xc. March 1841; sold his collection of rare engravings and etchings May 1883, Rembrandt’s portrait of Dr. Arnold Tholinx went for £1510 the largest sum ever given for a print; author of Laws of the Greek Accents 1831, 5 ed. 1853; An index to the wills in the Court of the Chancellor of Oxford 1862 and other works. d. 63 St. Giles’ street, Oxford 14 Aug. 1885.

GRIFFITHS, John. b. Bod-Gwilym 21 Dec. 1821; apprentice to a grocer at Barmouth; went to London 1846; wrote for the Welsh press under name of Wmffra Edward; contributor to the Banner Cymru 1857 and was in its sole employment from 1860, known as Gohebydd Llandain, Y Gohebydd and Pobman. d. London? 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Llangollen cemetery. Red Dragon, iv, 385–93 (1883), portrait.

GRIFFITHS, Richard Clewin. b. 8 Sep. 1791; ed. at St. Thomas’ and Guy’s hospital; M.S.A. 1812; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1813; one of the first to combine the practice of medicine and surgery, retired from practice 1850; master of the Apothecaries’ co. 1855 to death; helped to establish Zoological gardens 1827 and Botanical soc. 1839, public feeding of the animals introduced by him. d. 20 Gower st. London 5 Sep. 1881, portrait in parlour of Soc. of Apothecaries. Times 13 Sept. 1881 p. 9.

GRIFFITHS, Robert. b. Lleweny farm in Vale of Clywdd 13 Dec. 1805; pattern maker in an engine works, Birmingham, soon became foreman; engineer at Smethwick to 1845; had engineering works at Havre 1845–8 where the iron work for the Havre and Paris railways was manufactured; took out many patents 1835–78; experimented on rivet machines 1835, glass grinding 1836, making hexagon nuts 1837, machinery for making bolts and railway spikes and rivets 1845, atmospheric railways 1845–6, screw propellors 1847, and an electric hair brush to prevent hair turning white 1852; partner in Coppa colliery, Flintshire 1862. d. 107 Ledbury road, Bayswater, London 16 June 1883. Engineering 29 June 1883 p. 606.

GRIMALDI, Stacey (2 son of Wm. Grimaldi of London 1751–1830, portrait painter). b. 7 King st. St. James’s sq. London 18 Oct. 1790; attorney and solicitor 1 Copthall court, city of London; engaged in many record and peerage cases; F.S.A. 1824; marquis Grimaldi in Italy 27 May 1830; lecturer at the Incorporated Law Soc. on the public records 1834, auditor there 1853; contributed to Gent. Mag. 1813–61; author of A synopsis of the history of England 1825, 2 ed. 1871; Origines genealogicæ 1828; The genealogy of the family of Grimaldi 1834 and 5 other books. d. Hernden house, Eastry, Kent 28 March 1863.

GRIMSHAW, James. b. Bolton, Lancashire, 1846; light weight jockey, won 164 races in 1864, called the Pocket Hercules; took the Cesarewitch on Hartington 1862 and on Thalestris 1864; won the Newmarket Biennial on Kangaroo 1865, when lord Hastings gave £12,000 for the winner which ultimately was worked in a cab; gained the 1000 guineas with Hester and the St. Leger with Hawthornden 1870; rode in Germany and Austria 1871 to death. d. of cancer Pardubitz, Bohemia 12 Dec. 1888. Baily’s Mag. ix (1864), portrait; Illust. Sport. News, ii, 333 (1863), portrait, v, 60, 264 (1866), portrait; Times 20 Dec. 1888 p. 5.

GRIMSHAW, William. b. Greencastle, Londonderry 1782; went to Philadelphia, U.S. America 1815; author of An Etymological dictionary 1821, 2 ed. 1826; Gentleman’s Lexicon and Ladies’ Lexicon 1829; Life of Napoleon; History of the United States 1822 and many other books all published in Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 1852.

GRIMSTON, Rev. Edward Harbottle (2 son of 1 earl of Verulam, d. 1845). b. 42 Grosvenor sq. London 2 April 1812; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1831; fellow of All Souls 1834–42, M.A. 1838; M.P. St. Albans 1835–41; R. of Pebmarsh, Essex 1841 to death; R. of Great Henny, Essex 1845 to death; member of Marylebone cricket club, played at Lords to 1841, continued to play in county matches, one of the best style of players ever seen. d. Pebmarsh rectory 4 May 1881. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 29 (1862).