GROVES, HENRY GAGE DE LANCEY, son of Maj. John Richard Groves, Governor of Millbank Prison, Westminster; b. 9 Sep 1840; adm. 29 Jan 1852 (G); Cadet, EICS Madras 1856; Cornet, unattached, 20 Nov 1856; 7th Madras Light Cavalry 30 Jan 1857; Lieut., 2 Sep 1858; Capt., 4th Light Cavalry 20 Nov 1868; d. at Secunderabad, India 26 Dec 1872.

GROSVENOR, RICHARD DE AQUILA, 1ST BARON STALBRIDGE, fourth son of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquis of Westminster (qv); b. 28 Jun 1837; adm. 24 Jan 1849 (G); an intimate school friend of Francis Markham (qv); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 Feb 1855, fellow commoner 15 Oct 1855, matr. Mich. 1855; MA 1858; MP (Liberal) Flintshire May 1861 – 22 Mar 1886; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household Mar 1872 - Feb 1874; Privy Councillor 19 Mar 1872; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Liberal Whip, House of Commons 1880-5; created Baron Stalbridge 22 Mar 1886; took Liberal Unionist whip, House of Lords; Chairman, London and North Western Railway Co. 1891-1911, having been a director since 1870; a Governor of the School 1875-1880 and from 1889; Busby Trustee from 1 Jun 1875; President, Elizabethan Club 1885-91, Vice-President from 1891; an intimate friend of Francis Markham (qv), who frequently mentions him in his Recollections; m. 1st, 5 Nov 1874 Hon. Beatrix Charlotte Elizabeth Vesey, third dau. of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount De Vesci (I); m. 2nd, 3 Apr 1879 Eleanor Frances Beatrice, dau. of Robert Hamilton Stubber, Moyne, Queen’s Co.; d. 18 May 1912. DNB Supp.

GROSVENOR, RANDOLPH LEA, eldest son of George Fox Grosvenor MD MRCS, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, London, and Eliza Frances, eldest dau. of Thomas Lea, London; b. 29 Jul 1867; adm. (G) 27 May 1880; left May 1884; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. 10 Oct 1805, matr. Mich. 1885; BA 1888; St. Mary’s Hospital; MRCS LRCP London 1896; practised in London; killed in air raid 14 Sep 1940.

Randolph Lea Grosvenor was born at Notting Hill, London on the 29th of July 1867 the eldest son of Dr George Fox Grosvenor MD and Eliza Frances (nee Lea) Grosvenor of 121, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill in London. He was christened at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Notting Hill on the 2nd of November 1867. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from the 27th of May 1880 to May 1884. He matriculated for Clare College, Cambridge on the 10th of October 1885 where he achieved a BA in 1888 and a MA in 1926. He attended St Mary’s Hospital, Chelsea and achieved MRCS LRCP in 1896. He practised medicine at 75, Oakley Street, Chelsea.
On the 14th of September 1940 the Luftwaffe continued operations against London at was by now the height of the Battle of Britain. A number of separate raids, made up of small formations, crossed the south coast of England during the later afternoon flying at heights of between 17,000 and 20,000 feet. Although many were turned back by Royal Air Force fighters in a running battle, some got through and were able to drop their bombs on London.
Randolph Grosvenor had heeded the sound of the sirens as the enemy raiders approached the city and, having no air raid shelter in his own house, he and his brother Edward and their housekeeper, Mrs. Elizabeth Parke, walked to 5, Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea. It was the home of Mrs. Mabel Price-Jones and her daughter where she had constructed a small air raid shelter in the basement which was strengthened with sandbags. At around 6.30pm a high explosive bomb struck the house and passed through all of its floors before exploding in the basement. All five of those sheltering there were killed instantly.
Those who died were: -
Randolph Lea Grosvenor
Edward Moberley Grosvenor
Elizabeth Sarah Parke
Mabel Edith Price-Jones
Eileen Price-Jones
His place of burial is not known.

Groner, Bernard George, son of Percy Groner, of London, merchant, by Katherine Mary, daughter of John Napier, of Bedford; b. Feb. 29, 1904; adm. Jan. 18, 1917 (G); left Easter 1922; a travel agent; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. March 14, 1939; Flying Officer July 9, 1939; temp. Flight-Lieut. Dec. 1, 1941; demobilised as Sqdn.-Ldr. Nov. 1945.

GRIFFITH, DAVID HANMER, second son of Rev. Charles Griffith, Vicar of St. David’s, Brecon, and Anne --- (IGI); b. 14 Jan 1813; adm. 20 Jan 1826 (G); Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1831; BA 1835; MA 1838; ordained deacon (Gloucester) 6 Jun 1836, priest (Ely) 4 Jun 1837; Vicar of Cadoxton juxta Neath, Glamorgan, from 1837; m. 1836 Mary, dau. of Rev. Glynn Bodvel Lewis, Caernarfon; d. 11 May 1875.

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.

GREGORY, CHRISTOPHER, son of James Christopher Gregory, solicitor, Registrar Chertsey County Court, and Anne, dau. of John Read, Hadley, Middlesex; b. 4 Jul 1853; adm. 24 Sep 1868 (G); left Aug 1869; Lincoln Theol. College 1874; ordained deacon 1876, priest 1877 (both Lincoln); Curate, St. Swithun, Retford, Notts. 1876-9, Folkestone, Kent 1879-85, Woolverstone, Suffolk 1889-93; Chaplain, St. Andrew’s Home, Folkestone, Kent 1893-1911, St. Mark’s, Regents Park, London, from 1912; m. 1892 Annie Gertrude, fourth dau. of John Nisbet, Easington Grange, Northumberland; d. 1920.

Gregg, Dominic Ian, son of Basil Edward Pease Gregg, member of Lloyd’s, and Winifred Standidge, d. of Capt. Anthony Standidge Thomson CB CBE RNR, Elder Brother of Trinity House; b. 4 Jan. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (G); left July 1943; Roy. Garhwal Rifles IA 1944-6 (Lieut. ); Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1951, MA 1954; Westminster Hosp. Med. Sch., BM BCh 1954; DM 1983; MRCP 1978, FRCP 1986; FRCGP 1972; gen. med. practitioner, Roehampton 1958-73, subsequently in Kingston-upon-Thames and in Southampton, Hants; dir., Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology, Brompton Hosp., London 1973-83; sen. res. Fellow and sen. lecturer, primary care, Univ. of Southampton 1982-7; m. 7 Apr. 1953 Mary Dale Chanter, nurse, d. of Edgar Dale Chanter of Itchen Abbas, Hants; d. 1 Apr. 2009.

Greenish, Brian Vivian Isitt, son of Vivian Arthur Frederick Greenish FDS, of Hendon, and Marjorie Ellen, d. of Charles William Isitt; b. 11 Oct. 1920; adm. Sept. 1934 (G); left July 1939; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1944; practised at Bedford, dep. Coroner 1957- 65, retd 1985; m. 17 Aug. 1944 Nancy, d. of Charles Ernest Snowdon of Hull, E. Yorks; d. 27 Apr. 2012.