GREVILLE, CHARLES, brother of Henry Francis Greville (qv); b. 2 Nov 1762; adm. 8 Jul 1773; left Whitsun 1775; Ensign, 39th Foot 6 Nov 1778; Lieut., 90th Foot 29 Nov 1779; 48th Foot 10 Jan 1781; Capt., 45th Foot 6 Jan 1783; half-pay 1783-9; Capt., 58th Foot 30 Dec 1795; retd. 1796; travelling in Italy 1792-3; MP Petersfield 12 Jan 1795 – 1796; Under-Secretary, Home Office 14 Mar 1796 – 1 Mar 1798; Comptroller of Cash, Excise Office, from 1799; Naval Officer, Demerara and Essequibo 1798-1827; Secretary, Island of Tobago, West Indies, 1801-27; Receiver-Gen. Taxes, Nottinghamshire; DCL Oxford 4 Jul 1793; father of Charles Greville, the diarist; m. 31 Mar 1792/3 Lady Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck, eldest dau. of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv); d. 26 Sep 1832.
GREVILLE, HENRY FRANCIS, fourth son of Fulke Greville MP, Wilbury House, Wilts., and Frances, third dau. of James Macartney; b. 10 Aug 1760; adm. 8 Jul 1773; left Whitsun 1775; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 17 Jan 1777; Lieut. and Capt., 12 Feb 1781; Lieut. -Col. in Army 24 Mar 1790; 4th Dragoon Guards 6 Oct 1790; retd. 31 Mar 1793; m. 1st, 18 Aug 1791 Catherine, dau. of Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart.; m. 2nd, 25 Feb 1805 Sophia, widow of Sir Henry Lambert, Bart. (and mother of Sir Henry John Lambert, Bart. (qv) ), dau. of Francis Xavier White; d. at Port Louis, Isle of France 13 Jan 1816.
GREVILLE, HENRY WILLIAM, youngest son of Charles Greville (qv); b. 28 Oct 1801; adm. 3 Feb 1813; left 1814; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Dec 1819, Canoneer Student 1820-7; BA 1823; present at Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels on eve of battle of Waterloo 15 Jun 1815; private secretary to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for Colonies 5 Jan 1826 – 30 Apr 1827, and to Lord Francis Egerton, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1828-30; precis writer, Foreign Office 17 Nov 1834 – 17 Apr 1835; attaché, British Embassy, Paris Apr 1835 – Jul 1844; a Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to William IV and Queen Victoria from 1 May 1833; Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville, ed. Lady Enfield, were published 1883-4; d. unm. 12 Dec 1872. 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.
GREVILLE, ROBERT, son of Caleb Greville, parish clerk, St. James’s, Westminster, and his first wife Esther Paterson (IGI); b. 26 Jul 1759; adm. 12 Jun 1770, chorister; left Dec 1773; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jul 1779, aged 19; BA 1783; BCL from Pembroke Coll. Oxford 1794; ordained deacon (York, lit. dim. from Winchester) 27 Jul 1783, priest 18 Jul 1784 (York); Curate, Tatsfield, Surrey 1783, Kirkby in Ashfield, Notts., 1784; Rector of Edlaston, Derbs. 7 Oct 1789; Rector of Bonsall, Derbs. 1795-1827 (disp. to hold with Edlaston); Rector of Buckworth, Hunts., 24 Apr 1827-31 [check]; m. 12 May 1792 Dorothy Chaloner (IGI); d. 1830 (will proved PCC 3 Jul 1830]
Grewcock, Douglas Derek, son of William James Grewcock LDS, of Beckenham, Kent, and Lilyan Alice, d. of Ernest Candy of Stratton, Somerset; b. 25 Jan. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (H); left July 1938; RE 1941-5 (Maj.), despatches (N. Africa) Apr. 1943, (Italy) Sept. 1944; MBE (Italy) June 1945; an investment banker, partner Loeb, Rhodes & Co., Barbados; m. 25 Apr. 1952 Janne Maud, d. of Maj. Hubert Martineau of Holyport, Berks; d. 31 Dec. 1977 in Barbados.
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.
GREY, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767.
GREY, ARTHUR JOHN, fourth son of Hon. and Right Rev. Edward Grey DD, Bishop of Hereford, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Robert Adair (qv); b. 10 Sep 1829; adm. 15 Mar 1838; at Charterhouse Sch., foundation scholar 1840-4; entered Royal Navy Jan 1845; Mate 11 Jul 1850; Lieut., 3 May 1853; served in operations on River Plate and in Naval Brigade at Colonia 1845-7; engaged in suppression of piracy in China Seas 1849; d. at Lyon, France 19 Apr 1854.