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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Greve, Paul Harold, son of Paul Herbert Greve, an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, and Ellen Angless, d. of George Bowen of Knighton, Radnor; b. 18 June 1918; adm. Jan. 1932 (A); left July 1936; a mech. engineer; RNVR (E) 1940-6; Anglo-Egyptian Oil Co., Egypt, 1946; m. 1944 Elizabeth Ellen, d. of John Saunders-Jones of Saratoga Springs, New York; d. 27 Feb. 1991.

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.

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, 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.