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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.

GREY, HARRY, 4TH EARL OF STAMFORD, eldest son of Harry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford, and Dorothy, dau. of Right Hon. Sir Nathan Wrighte PC, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; b. 18 Jun 1715; at Rugby Sch. 1722-6; adm. Nov 1726; in school list 1731; MP Leicestershire 16 Feb 1737/8 – 16 Nov 1739; succ. father as 4th Earl of Stamford 16 Nov 1739; DL Lincolnshire, Staffordshire 1744; m. 18 May 1736 Lady Mary Booth, only dau. of George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington; d. 30 May 1768.

GREY, HON. JOHN, brother of Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1733; left 1740; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 16 Jun 1740; one of the Clerk Comptrollers, Board of Green Cloth, Royal Household, from 6 Apr 1754; MP Bridgnorth 1754-68, Tregony 1768-74; m. 26 May 1748 Lucy, dau. of Sir Joseph Danvers, Bart., MP; d. 25 Feb 1777.