GRENEFFYLD, THOMAS, brother of Gentyll Greneffyld (qv); b. ; adm. pens. Midsummer 1544 (tutor, the Headmaster) (Chapter Muniments 37044).
GRENVILLE-MURRAY, DOUGLAS NUGENT WYNDHAM EUSTACE CLARE, youngest son of Eustace Clare Grenville-Murray, Brook Street, Westminster, sometime Consul at Odessa, Paris correspondent of The Daily News, and editor, The Queen’s Messenger; b. 1 Jan 1848; adm. 24 Jan 1861 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1862; Capt. of the School 1865; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1866, matr. 23 May 1866; BA 1870; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jan 1871, called to bar 17 Nov 1873; still in Law List 1900 but no address.
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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, FRANCIS, brother of William Gresley (qv); b. 5 May 1807; at Shrewsbury Sch. 1816-7; adm. 14 Jan 1818; left Whitsun 1822; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1822; Lieut., 14th Bengal Native Infantry 13 May 1828; Capt. (in the army) 11 Jul 1838; 14th Bengal Native Infantry 8 Oct 1839; seconded to Nizam’s service from 1827; retd. 1 Mar 1844; returned to England; Brevet Maj., retd. list, 28 Nov 1854; m. 19 Sep 1848 Mary, widow of Francis Russell Kendall, Walthamstow, Essex, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Thorp, Rector of Burton Overy, Leics.; d. 10 Dec 1880.
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, SIR WILLIAM NIGEL, BART., only son of Rev. William Gresley, Netherseal, Leics., and his first wife Louisa Jane, dau. of Sir Nigel Gresley, Bart.; b. 25 Mar 1806; adm. 15 Jan 1817 (Packharness'); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 May 1824; migr. to St. Mary’s Hall; BA 1829; ordained 1830; Rector of Netherseal, Leics., from 25 Sep 1830; succ. as 9th baronet 12 Oct 1837; m. 25 Mar 1831 Georgina Ann, sister of George Reid (qv); d. 3 Sep 1847.
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.