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GRAHAME, JAMES CUNNINGHAM, brother of John Anthony Grahame (qv); b. 10 Jul 1830; adm. 20 Oct 1841; left 1844; Edinburgh Univ.; Gonville & Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Oct 1849, matr. Mich. 1849; BA 1854; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Nov 1851; adm. advocate 10 Mar 1855; practised at Scottish bar 1855-73; Sheriff Substitute, Argyll 1860-5; m. 13 Mar 1855 Elizabeth, dau. of John Inglis, Hilton, Lasswade, Midlothian [check]; d. Mar 1887.

GRAHAME, JOHN ANTHONY, second son of Archibald Grahame, Great George Street, Westminster, parliamentary agent, and Barbara Dixon, Gallowknowe [check county]; b. 16 Nov 1824; adm. 20 Oct 1841; parliamentary agent, firm Grahame, Curry and Spens, Great George Street, Westminster; m. 25 Mar 1856 (IGI) Margaret Caldwell, dau. of John Crum; d. 1889.

Grahame, Malcolm Claud Russell, son of William Francis Grahame, of the Madras Civil Service, by Mary, daughter of Edward Russell, of Dublin; b. May 16, 1878; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (G); left July 1897; served as a trooper in the Sharpshooters in the South African War March 1900 to July 1901; L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. (Edin.) 1906; L.F.P.S. (Glasgow) 1906; M.B. and Ch.B. (Edin.) 1911; D.P.H. (Edin. and Glasgow) 1913; D.T.M. (Liverpool) 1913; served in the R.A.M.C. from Aug. 1914 to May 1919, when he was demob. with the rank of Capt.; was M.O.H. at Baghdad 1918; Deputy M.O.H. at Burnley, Lancs, from 1921; m. May 16, 1915, Olive Mary, daughter of Robert Brassey, of Cholmondeley, Cheshire; d. March 11, 1940.

GRAHAME, THOMAS WILLIAM, brother of John Anthony Grahame (qv); b. 19 Aug 1828; adm. 20 Oct 1841; Addiscombe Coll. 1846-7; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1847; 2nd Lieut., unattached 10 Dec 1847; Bombay Horse Artillery, 8 Jan 1849; d. at Colabah, India 4 Oct 1853.

Graham-Jones, Edward Christopher, son of the Rev. Charles Edward Graham-Jones, Rector of Cowden, Kent; b. Aug. 4, 1887; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left Dec. 1905; a civil engineer on the Canadian Northern Railways; drowned in the Fraser River Sept. 18, 1913.

Graham-Little, Esmond Birch, son of Sir Ernest Gordon Graham-Little MD MP and Sarah Helen, d. of Maurice Kendall; b. 9 Apr. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left July 1933; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936; called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) May 1938; RAFVR 1940-1 (FO); killed on active service 10 June 1942.

Esmond Birch “Bep” Graham-Little was born at Marylebone, London on the 9th of April 1915 the only son of Sir Ernest Gordon Graham-Little MD, FRCP, MRCS MP and Lady Sarah Helen (nee Kendall) Graham–Little of 19, Upper Wimpole Street, Marylebone and of 1, St George’s Gardens, Lynwood Road, Epsom in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1928 to July 1933. He was awarded the Goodenough Medal for Modern Languages in 1933. He matriculated for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1933 where he read Engineering and graduated with a BA in 1936. He later trained as a barrister and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in May 1938.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in May 1939 where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of Sergeant (754494) before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 7th of September 1940. He was promoted to Flying Officer on the 7th of September 1941.
On the 10th of June 1942, Esmond Graham-Little took off from RAF Castle Camps in Mosquito NF Mk IIF DD603 with his observer, Warrant Officer Wilfrid Arthur Clement Walters, for a night flying exercise. The aircraft had been undertaking Air Indication exercises at around 10,000 feet and when the exercise was completed it turned and went into a shallow dive down through cloud towards the base. The cloud was 10/10ths with tops at between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. It was flying over Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex when it disintegrated in mid air and crashed at Bentfield Bury near Bishops Stortford at 5.05pm, killing both men.
The wreckage was spread over a large area with the aircrafts forward section and starboard engine both catching fire and burning out on the ground.
His funeral took place on the 13th of June 1942.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Grays Inn and on the memorial at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He is buried at Saffron Walden Cemetery Compt 39, Grave 10.

Graham-Maw, Nigel Nawton, son of Frederick Graham Maw, solicitor, of Dulwich, and Thelma Valentine, d. of Francis Shepherd Crisp of West Norwood; b. 4 July 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (G); left July 1951; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, LLB 1958, MA 1961; adm. solicitor 1961; partner Rowe-Moore LLP, solicitors, 1961-93, sen. partner 1976-93; dep. chmn. Decca Ltd., chmn. 1979-80; m. 1st, June 1961 Elizabeth Jane Werry, professional musician, d. of Roy James Werry, headmaster; 2nd, 20 July 1984 Mrs Gillian Hunter, née Bradbury; d. 12 Apr. 2005.

GRAHAM-STIRLING, THOMAS JAMES, second son of Thomas Graham-Stirling (formerly Graham), Airth, Stirlingshire, Convener of Stirlingshire, and Caroline Mary, only dau. of Lieut. -Col. James Home, Blackadder, Berwickshire; b. 11 Jun 1811; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); left Nov 1827; Ensign, 42nd Foot 8 Nov 1827; Lieut., 16 Nov 1832; retd. 15 Dec 1837; DL JP Perthshire; m. 1st, 4 Jul 1844 Mary, eldest dau. of William Stirling, Kenmare House, Lanarkshire; m. 2nd, 3 Feb 1858 Jane, youngest dau. of William Hugh Hunter, Auchterarder, Perthshire; d. 15 Aug 1896.

GRAINGER, JOHN CECIL, eldest son of Thomas Cecil Grainger, Cuckfield, Sussex, and Euphemia Bannerman, Elsick, Kincardineshire; b. 7 Nov 1801; adm. 16 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); Downing Coll. Cambridge; BA 1827; ordained 1827; Perpetual Curate, Burcombe, Wilts., 3 Jul 1827; Vicar of St. Giles, Reading, Berks., from 17 Dec 1834; m. 23 Dec 1834 Margaret Bewicke, youngest dau. of John Smart, Trewhitt House, Northumberland; d. 6 May 1857.

Grandineau, Francois; b. France c.1797 (1851 Census) ; teaching French to the future Queen Victoria by 1830 – Jun 1837 ; described as “French Master to HRH the Princess Victoria and Professor of the French Language at Westminster School”, on the title leaf of his Grammaire Royale, London, 1836 ; French Master at Westminster School (by early 1827, see Town Boy ledger, still listed as such British Imperial Calendar, 1841) ; in receipt of pension of £100 p.a. for his services as teacher to Queen Victoria ; of Southend Cottage, St.Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, London ; latterly living in Brighton, Sussex ; author Conversations Familières, 1832, Le Petit Precepteur or First Step to French Conversation, and Il Piccolo Precettore, or First Steps to Italian Conversation, 1853 ; m. Maria Billard --- ; d. at Brighton, Sussex 18 May 1855, aged 59