GRENFELL 



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GRENVILLE 



Francis Grenfell, 

 British soldier 



from Oxyrhynchus, Tebtunis, Hi- 

 beh, and other finds. The Sayings 

 of Our Lord, 1897 ; and New Say- 

 ings of Jesus, 1904, were issued 

 separately. 



Grenfell, FRANCIS OCTAVIUS 

 (1880-1915). British soldier. The 

 eighth son of Pascoe Du Pre 

 Grenfell, he was 

 born Sept. 4, 

 18SO, and edu- 

 cated at Eton, 

 where with his 

 l^win brother 

 Riversdale 

 ("Rivy") he 

 was noted for 

 excellence in 

 sports. He 

 joined the 3rd 

 battalion Seaforth Highlanders 

 (Militia) in 1S99, transferring in 

 1901 to the King's Royal Rifles, 

 with which regiment he served in 

 the S. African War. 



In 1905 he joined the 9th Lan- 

 cers, which regiment he accom- 

 panied to France in August, 1914, 

 with the rank of captain. Grenfell 

 was one of the first officers to gain 

 the V.C. in the Great War, which 

 was awarded to him for gallantry 

 on Aug. 24, 1914, in action against 

 the unbroken Germans at Au- 

 dregnies, and on the same day 

 assisting to save the guns of the 

 119tli Battery, R.F.A., near Dou- 

 bon. Grenfell, after being twice 

 invalided home, was killed in the 

 Ypres salient on May 24, 1915. 



By his will, dated May G, 1915, 

 he bequeathed his Victoria Cross 

 to his regiment. Capt. Grenfell 

 was a noted polo player. Rivers- 

 dale Grenfell was killed in action, 

 Sept. 14, 1914. See Francis 

 and Riversdale Grenfell, John 

 Buchan, 1920. 



Grenfell, JULIAN HENRY FRAN- 

 CIS (1888-1915). British soldier 

 and poet. The eldest son of Lord 

 Desborough, he 

 was born March 

 SO, 1888. Edu- 

 cated at Eton 

 and Balliol Col- 

 lege, Oxford, he 

 proved himself 

 both a fine 

 soldier and a 

 fine athlete. He 

 excelled at 

 several sports, 

 butespeciallyat * 



boxing, in which he represented 

 Oxford and the army. In 1909 he 

 entered the Royal Dragoons, with 

 which he went to the front early in 

 the Great War. He had won the 

 D.S.O., when on May 13, 1915, he 

 was seriously wounded, and on the 

 26th he died in hospital at Boulogne. 

 Grenfell is chiefly known by the 



Julian Grenfell, 

 British soldier 



Wilfred T. Grenfell, 



British medical 



missionary 



Elliott & Fry 



verses, Into Battle, which appeared 

 in The Times a few days before his 

 death. 



Lord Desborough's younger son, 

 Gerald William Grenfell (t890- 

 1915), was killed in action at Hooge, 

 July 30, 1915, while serving with 

 the Rifle Brigade. Both at Eton 

 and Oxford, where he was a scholar 

 of Balliol, he had distinguished 

 himself as a classical scholar, while 

 he represented his university at 

 boxing and tennis. 



Grenfell, WILFRED THOMASON 

 (b. 1865). British medical mis- 

 sionary. Born Feb. 28, 1865, and 

 educated a t 

 Marlborough 

 and Oxford, 

 he studied 

 medicine, and 

 became house 

 surgeon at the 

 London Hos- 

 pital, under 

 Sir Frederick 

 Trcves. Being 

 interested i n 

 the North Sea 

 fishermen, he 

 fitted out the first hospital ship, and 

 established land missions and homes 

 for their use. In 1892 he went to 

 Labrador, built four hospitals, and 

 started various institutions for the 

 fishermen. He was made an honor- 

 ary fellow of the American college 

 of surgeons in 1915, and was a 

 major in the Harvard surgical unit 

 in France during the Great War. 

 His many books on his missionary 

 work among the fishermen include 

 the autobiographical A Labrador 

 Doctor, 1918. 



Grenoble. City of France, in the 

 dept. of Isere, the old capital of Dau- 

 phine. It stands on the Isere, 75 m. 

 S.E. of Lyons, and 

 is beautifully situ- 

 ated at the foot 

 of Mont Rachais. 

 The chief buildings 

 arc the cathedral 

 of Notre Dame, 

 partly of tlie llth 

 century; the 

 church of S. Andre, 

 with its monument 

 to Bayard ; and the 

 old church of S. 

 Laurent. Secular edifices include 

 the palais de j ustice, the library, with 

 a fine collection of manuscripts, 

 books, and paintings, and the uni- 

 versity. It is a river port, and is 

 noted for its manufacture of gloves. 

 The city is an old one, having ex- 

 isted under the Franks, and 

 earlier. It was part of Provence 

 before becoming part of France, 

 and as the chief town of Dauphine 

 was an important place, retaining 

 certain privileges until the Revo- 

 lution. Pop. 77,600. 



Grenville, WILLIAM WYNDHAM 

 GRENVILLE, BARON (1759-1834). 

 British statesman Born Oct. 25, 

 1759, he was 

 the youngest 

 son of George I 

 Grenville. Edu- Vmrni^- 3 

 cated at Eton 

 and Christ 

 Church, Ox- 

 ford,he entered 

 Parliament as 

 M.P. for Buck- 

 i n g h a m in 

 1782 His fam- 

 ily connexions 

 made his way 

 easy, and having for a short time 

 been secretary to his brother, Earl 

 Temple, lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 

 he became paymaster-general under 

 Pitt in 1783. In 1786 he was made 

 vice-president of the committee on 

 trade; in 1789, having been for a 

 few months speaker, he became 

 home secretary, and in 1791 foreign 

 secretary. He had been a peer 

 since 1790. 



Grenville remained in office with 

 Pitt until the two resigned in 1801, 

 the period being a most eventful 

 one, but his attachment to Fox 

 prevented him from returning to 

 power in 1804. In 1806, on Pitt's 

 death, he and Fox formed a 

 coalition ministry, but this only 

 lasted until March, 1807, as 

 Grenville, who was premier, re- 

 fused to pledge himself against relief 

 to Roman Catholics. As an un- 

 official member he took part in 

 public life, acting mainly with the 

 Whigs, until his death at Drop- 

 more, Jan. 12, 1834, when the peer- 

 age became extinct. A fine classical 

 scholar, Grenville edited Lord Chat- 

 ham's letters to Thomas Pitt. 



Grenoble, France. Pont d'Hopital over the Isere. 

 Behind the city lie the snow-covered French Alps 



Grenville, GEORGE (1712-70). 

 English statesman. Born Oct. 14, 

 1712, he was educated at Eton and 

 Christ Church, Oxford, was called 

 to the bar in 1735, but adopted a 

 political career, and from 1740 till 

 his death sat for the borough of 

 Buckingham in the House of 

 Commons. He was made a lord of 

 the admiralty in 1744 and of the 

 treasury in 1747 ; treasurer of the 

 navy, and a privy councillor in 

 1754, and secretary of state for 

 the northern department, and first 



