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He lost his seat in Parliament after the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in that body. However, in 2000 he was created a life peer as Baron Grenfell of Kilvey, of Kilvey in the County of Swansea, which allowed him to return to the House of Lords. He was Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees from ...
Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane.. He was educated at Eton where he was good friends with Denys Finch Hatton, Edward Horner, and latterly with Patrick Shaw-Stewart.
Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell (1841–1925) Pascoe Christian Victor Francis Grenfell, 2nd Baron Grenfell (1905–1976) Julian Pascoe Francis St Leger Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell (b. 1935) The heir presumptive to the barony is the present holder's first cousin once removed, Richard Arthur St Leger Grenfell (born 1966). He is the ...
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Garter-encircled shield of arms of William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St George's Chapel, Windsor.. William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, DL (30 October 1855 – 9 January 1945) was a British athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician.
Three other brothers, Cecil Grenfell, Howard Maxwell Grenfell and Arthur Morton Grenfell all reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the British Army. A cousin, Lieutenant Claude George Grenfell (Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry) was killed at Spion Kop during the Boer War and two other cousins Julian Grenfell , the poet, and his brother ...
Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC (Ire) (29 April 1841 – 27 January 1925) was a British Army officer. After serving as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, he fought in the 9th Xhosa War , the Anglo-Zulu War and then the Anglo-Egyptian War .
Ethel (Ettie) Fane was born into an aristocratic family. However, at the age of three she was orphaned when her father, Julian Fane, the younger son of an earl, died at the age of 42, soon after the death of Ettie's mother. Fane married William Grenfell in 1887.