GRESLEY (or GREISLEY), HENRY, second son of John Gresley, Shrewsbury, and Joan, dau. of Jasper More, Larden, Shropshire; b. 9 Nov 1613; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, Westminster Student to 1654; BA 1638; MA 1641 (incorp. Camb. 1651); submitted to the Parliamentary Visitors 1648, and although expelled by them for refusing to subscribe the Engagement Mar 1650/1 appears to have remained a Westminster Student to 1654; travelled in France; ordained; Rector of Severn Stoke, Worcs., 1 May 1654, reinstituted 28 Sep 1661, holding living until death; Prebendary of Worcester from 19 Apr 1672; translated Balzac’s Prince, 1648 and Senault’s Christian Man, 1650; m. 1st, 5 Jun 1655 Eleanor, dau. of Edward Allye, Hatfield, Worcs.; m. 2nd, 16 Apr 1667 Eleanor, dau. of Gervase Buck, Kempsey, Worcs.; d. 8 Jun 1678. DNB (s. v. Greisley, Henry).
GRESLEY, ANDREW ROBERT, brother of William Gresley (qv); b. 22 Jan 1814; adm. 18 Sep 1826 (Stikeman's); KS 1828; rowed v. Eton 12 May 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1832, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1832, but did not matr. and probably never resided; d. 10 Mar 1833.
GRESLEY, RICHARD NEWCOMBE, brother of William Gresley (qv); b. 30 Jun 1804; adm. 26 May 1815 (Packharness'); KS 1818; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1822, matr. 18 May 1822, Westminster Student; BA 1826; MA 1828; adm. Middle Temple 1 Feb 1826, called to bar 3 Jul 1829; equity draftsman, Midland Circuit; three of his letters, written while he was at school, describing the Coronation of King George IV, are printed Elizabethan xii, 65-6; author, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, 1836; d. 10 Jun 1837.
GRESLEY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Richard Gresley, Meriden Hall, Warwicks., barrister, Bencher Middle Temple, and his first wife Caroline, youngest dau. of Andrew Grote, Blackheath, Kent, banker; b. 16 Mar 1801; adm. 14 Jan 1811; KS 1815; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1819, matr. 21 May 1819, Westminster Student; BA 1823; MA 1825; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1836; ordained deacon 1825, priest 1826 (both Oxford); Lecturer, St. Mary’s, Lichfield, Staffs.; Prebendary of Lichfield from 27 Nov 1840; Assistant Priest, St. Paul’s, Brighton, Sussex c. 1850; Perpetual Curate of Boyne Hill, near Maidenhead, Berks., from 1857; a high churchman and a strenuous supporter of the Tractarian Movement of 1839; author, Portrait of an English Churchman, 1838, and of other religious and social tales, also of other works against dissent and scepticism; m. 28 Oct 1828 Anne Wright, dau. of John Barker Scott, Lichfield, Staffs., banker; d. 19 Nov 1876. DNB.
GREVILLE, JOSHUA, brother of Robert Greville (qv); b.; adm. 15 Jan 1782; KS 1786 (aged 15); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1790, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1790, aged 19, scholar 6 May 1791, matr. Mich. 1790; BA 1794; MA 1797; ordained deacon 3 Jan 1795, priest 18 Dec 1795 (both Bristol); Curate, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London Jun 1793 [check] – Jun 1820; Vicar of Duston, Northants., from 19 Jul 1811; Rector of Morborne, Hampshire 24 Apr 1827-31; Curate, Abingdon, Berks., from 1841; m.; d. 19 Feb 1851.
GREY (or GRAY), NICHOLAS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1606, matr. 5 Dec 1606, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1618/9; BA 1610; MA 1613 (incorp. Cambridge 1614); DD Cambridge 1631/2; ordained; Head Master, Charterhouse Sch. 3 Dec 1614-24, when he forfeited his post by marrying contrary to the statutes; Head Master, Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 29 Jan 1624/5 – Midsummer 1632; Rector of Castle Camps, Cambs., 1630-44; Head Master and Fellow, Eton Coll. Midsummer 1632; ejected both from Eton and from his rectory during Civil War; Headmaster, Tonbridge Sch., from 1649; Rector of Saffron Walden, Essex, 1652; restored to Fellowship at Eton and to Rectory of Castle Camps 12 Jul 1660; wrote some additions to Rider’s Dictionary and added testimonies from scripture to Grotius’s Baptizatorum Puerorum Institutio, 1655; m. Isabella ---; buried Eton College Chapel 5 Oct 1660. DNB.
GRICE (or GRYS), HENRY; b.; adm.; QS in 1569; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1573, adm. scholar 1574, matr. Easter 1574; BA 1577/8; MA 1581; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1579 – c. 1588.
GRIFFES, CHARLES, son of William Griffes, Stepney, Middlesex, shipowner, and Hannah ---; b. 31 Jul 1733; in school list 1744; KS (aged 15) 1749; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1753, matr. 27 Jun 1753, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1753 – void 1767; BA 1757; MA 1760; ordained deacon (Oxford) 2 Mar 1760, priest 15 Feb 1761 (Lichfield, lit. dim. from Lincoln). [Russell Barker & Stenning give father’s Christian name as Richard, in error]
Griffin, Douglas Morley, only son of Professor William Hall Griffin, of Hampstead, by Emily, daughter of John Cripps, of Liverpool; b. Aug. 1, 1889; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1903; left Dec. 1907; went into an architect's office at Liverpool; M.R.I.B.A. 1910; A.R.I.B.A. 1914; enlisted in Sept. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 17th (Service) Batt. the King's (Liverpool) Regt. Nov. 3, 1914; went out to the western front Nov. 1915; d. July 16, 1916, at Abbeville, of wounds received in action on the Somme July 9, 1916; unm.
GRIFFITH, GEORGE, third son of Robert Griffith, Carreglwyd, Anglesey; b. 30 Sep 1601; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1619, matr. 12 Nov 1619, Westminster Student; BA 1623; MA 1626; BD 1632; DD 1634; an original scholar of Pembroke Coll. Oxford 1624; ordained; licensed to preach 1633; Chaplain to Right Rev. John Owen, Bishop of St. Asaph; Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire 1631 [check preferments]; Canon and Archdeacon of St. Asaph 1631/2; Rector of Llanymynech, Shropshire 1634; deprived of all preferments except the last during Civil War; described himself as an”episcopal presbyterian”; disputed with the itinerant preacher Vavasor Powell 1652-3; consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph 28 Oct 1660; one of the three bishops who drew up the form of baptism for adults; is said to have undertaken the translation of the revised prayer book into Welsh; author, Plain Discourses on the Lord’s Supper, 1684, and other works; m. Anne, dau. of Thomas Cobbe, The Grange, Micheldever, Hampshire; d. 28 Nov 1666. DNB.