GRESSWELL, Dan. b. Kelsey hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire 13 May 1819; M.R.C. veterinary surgeons 1840 and fellow 1877; fellow of Veterinary Med. Assoc. 1840; settled at Louth, Lincolnshire, mayor 1871; a writer on Lactiferous glands, Paralysis in the horse, Arsenical poisoning, etc. d. Kelsey house, Louth 13 March 1883.
GRESWELL, Edward (3 son of Rev. W. Parr Greswell 1765–1854). b. Denton near Manchester 3 Aug. 1797; educ. Manchester gram. sch. 1811–15; scholar of Brasen. coll. Oxf. 1815; Lancash. scholar Corpus Christi 1816, took a double first 1819, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1830, tutor of his coll. 1822–34, fellow 1823 to death, vice president 1840–69; author of Harmonia Evangelica 1830, 5 ed. 1855; Fasti temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ 4 vols. 1852; Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ 4 vols. 1854; Origines Kalendariæ Hellenicæ 6 vols. 1862 and 8 other books, d. Corpus Christi coll. 29 June 1869. Smith’s Manchester School register, iii, 79–82 (1874); Register and Mag. of Biog. ii, 92–93 (1869).
GRESWELL, Rev. Richard (brother of the preceding). b. Denton 22 July 1800; educ. Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar 1818–24, took a double first 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1836, tutor of his coll. 1822–53, fellow 1824–37, dean 1825, hon. fellow 1878; raised £250,000 for the National soc. 1843, etc.; a founder of the Ashmolean soc. 1828; chairman of W. E. Gladstone’s election committees 1847–56; F.R.S. 10 June 1830. d. 39 St. Giles’, Oxford, on anniversary of his birth 22 July 1881. Burgon’s Lives of Twelve good men, ii, 93–122 (1888).
GRESWELL, Rev. William (2 son of the succeeding). b. Denton about 1795; educ. Manchester sch. and Brasen. coll. Oxf., scholar 1815–17, B.A. 1818, fellow of Balliol 1818–38, M.A. 1820; C. of Disley, Cheshire; R. of Kilve near Bridgewater 1837 to death; author of A popular view of correspondency between Mosaic ritual and the Christian religion 1834; A commentary on the order of the burial of the dead 1836. d. Kilve rectory 6 Nov. 1876 aged 80. Manchester School register, iii, 78 (1874).
GRESWELL, Rev. William Parr (son of John Greswell of Chester). b. Tarvin, Cheshire 23 June 1765; C. of Blackley near Manchester 1789–91; inc. of Denton and Haughton near Manchester 1791, resigned 1853; kept a school at Denton; author of Annals of Parisian typography 1818; The monastery of St. Werburgh, a poem 1823; A view of the early Parisian Greek press 2 vols. 1833. d. Denton 12 Jany. 1854, his library sold at Sotheby’s Feb. 1855. Manchester School Register, iii, 77–78 (1874); Booker’s Denton (Chetham Soc. Miscell. vol. ii, 1851) 109.
GRETTON, Rev. Frederick Edward (youngest son of Rev. George Gretton, prebendary of Hereford). b. 1803 or 1804; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1829, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; C. of Tickencote, Rutland and head master Stamford gram. sch. 1834–72; R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1847–64; select preacher at Cambridge 1861–2; author of Elmsleiana Critica 1833; Parochial sermons 1843; Passages from English poetry with a Latin verse translation 1873 and 15 other books. d. Oddington, Gloucs. 27 March 1890.
GREVILLE, Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1 Baron (2 son of Algernon Greville of North Lodge, Herts. 1791–1857). b. 17 Feb. 1821; col. of Westmeath militia 22 Aug. 1850 to death; M.P. for co. Longford 1852–69; assumed additional surname of Nugent by r.l. 8 Aug. 1866; cr. Baron Greville of Clonyn, co. Westmeath, in peerage of the U.K. 15 Dec. 1869; lord lieutenant of Westmeath 27 March 1871 to death. d. Clonyn castle, Delvin 25 Jany. 1883.
GREVILLE, Algernon Frederick (2 son of Charles Greville 1762–1832). b. 29 Dec. 1798; ensign 1 foot guards 1814, present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; aide-de-camp to general Sir John Lambert and then to the Duke of Wellington until 1818; aide-de-camp to the Duke in the ordnance office 1819; private sec. to the Duke 1827–30, 1834–35, 1842; Bath and Gloucester king of arms 1830 to death, d. Hillingdon, Middlesex 15 Dec. 1864.
GREVILLE, Charles Cavendish Fulke (brother of the preceding). b. 2 April 1794, educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1810–14; page to George iii; private sec. to earl of Bathurst 1814; sec. of Jamaica, performed the duties by a deputy; clerk of privy council 1821, resigned May 1859; member of jockey club, managed racing establishment of Duke of York 1821–26; won the St. Leger with Mango 1837; kept a political diary 1818–60 which was published in 3 vols. 1874, 3 vols. 1885 and 2 vols. 1887, the first series was suppressed and reprinted in an expurgated edition; author of many pamphlets, d. 16 Bruton st. London the residence of Earl Granville 18 Jany. 1865. The Greville Memoirs, i, pp. x-xi (1874); Baily’s Mag. vii, 217–21 (1864), portrait; Sporting Rev. xli, 138–43 (1859), liii, 75–80 (1865).
GREVILLE, Henry William (younger brother of the preceding). b. 28 Oct. 1801; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823; present at Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels 15 June 1815; private sec. to Lord Francis Egerton chief sec. for Ireland 1828–30; precis writer to Viscount Palmerston 1834; first paid attaché to British embassy in Paris 1835–44; kept a diary which was edited by Viscountess Enfield as Leaves from the diary of H. Greville 2 vols. 1883–4. d. 19 Queen st. Mayfair, London 12 Dec. 1872. Leaves from the diary, second series (1884) v-viii, portrait.