Grigg, Joseph Williams, son of Joseph Williams Grigg, journalist, of Notting Hill, and Anna Prentiss. d. of Rev. Lewis French Stearns DD, of Theol. Seminary Bangor, Maine, USA; b. 23 Aug. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (A), KS Sept. 1924; left July 1929; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932, MA 1966; a journalist; foreign correspondent United Press of America, Berlin 1939- 41, interned Bad Neuheim 1941-2, Lond. 1942-4, war correspondent France and Balkans 1944-5; man. UPA (now United Press International) for France 1944-51, Germany 1951-7; news man. for western Europe and N. Africa 1960-6, chief European correspondent 1966-82; retd Jan. 1982; m. 1st 4 Apr. 1944 Jessie Anderson, d. of Alexander Abbott of Monifieth, Scot­land; 2nd 19 Nov. 1960 Margaret Meikle, d. of Thomas Morgan, engineer, of Glamorgan; d. 29 Oct. 2000.

GROVE, RALPH, son of William Grove, London; b.; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1693, matr. 28 Jun 1693, aged 18, Westminster Student 14 Dec 1693 - void 1703 (expiry year of grace as V. Thornbury); BA 1697; MA 1700; ordained; Vicar of Thornbury, Gloucs., from 1701; m. 2 Mar 1703/4 Mary, dau. of Joseph Glover, Thornbury, Gloucs., apothecary; d. 29 Sep 1728 (M. I. Thornbury, Gloucs. ).

GRUNDYE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553-6 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

GRYMESDYCHE, THOMAS, son of John Grymesdyche, Knottingley, Yorks.; b.; at school in 1638; KS 1639; see his father’s letter to Sir Francis Windebanke, 8 Mar 1638/9, thanking Windebanke and his wife for their favours “to our little Westminster scholar at Christmas, who we hear by Jack is now sick of an ague” (CSP Dom 1638-9, 548).

GUEST (or GESTE or GUEAST), SIR LYONEL, only son of Alexander Guest, Tewkesbury, Gloucs., and Margery, dau. of John Meredeth, Upper Weld, Bucks.; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1578, matr. 20 Nov 1580, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1583; BA 30 Jan 1581/2; went to Ireland as Capt. in Army c. 1595; knighted by Lord Deputy of Ireland at Leixlip 5 May 1604; m. 1st, 14 Sep 1592 Elizabeth, dau. of Simon Love, Northants.; m. 2nd, Elinor, widow of David O’Duda, Castle Connor, co. Sligo, and dau. of Patrick Lynch, The Knock, co. Meath; d. c. 1620.

GUEST, EDWARD PERCIVAL, son of Edward Percival Guest, High Street, Brentwood, Essex, pharmaceutical chemist, and Frances, dau. of John Boys, Rochester, Kent; b. 21 Jun 1860; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (G), exhibitioner; QS 1875; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1879, adm. pens. 9 Oct 1879, sizar 1881; BA 1883; MA 1889; Assistant Master for forty-three years at various schools; d. unm. 14 Jul 1935.

GUISE, POWELL COLCHESTER, third son of Sir John Guise, Bart., Highnam Court, Gloucs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Wright, Lawrence Lane, London; b. 18 Dec 1778; adm.; Min. Can. 1793; KS 1794; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1798, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1798; BA 1802; MA 1804; ordained; Rector of Craike, co. Durham, Jul 1805; Vicar of Elmore and Longney, Gloucs.; m. 13 Oct 1808 Maria, dau. of Nathaniel Clifford (formerly Winchcombe), Frampton Court, Gloucs.; d. 9 May 1835.

GULSTON, ---; b.; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS, lxix, f. 140).

GUNTER, EDMUND, son of --- Gunter, Herts., originally from Gunterstown, Breconshire; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1599, matr. 25 Jan 1599/1600, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 1603; MA 1606; BD 1615; ordained; Incumbent, St. George’s, Southwark, Surrey 1615; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College, London, from 6 Mar 1619; applied to navigation and other parts of mathematics his rule of proportion, known as “Gunter’s Line”; discovered the variation of the magnetic needle by experiments at Deptford 1622; introduced “Gunter’s Chain”, used in land surveying, and was proably the inventor of the “decimal separator”; author, Canon Triangulorum, or Table of Artificial Sines and Tangents, 1620, and other works, published in a collected edition 1624; d. 10 Dec 1626. DNB.

GUYES, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).