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Grace was " notoriously unscholarly ".

His first schooling was with a Miss Trotman in Downend village and then with a Mr Curtis of Winterbourne.

He subsequently attended a day school called Rudgway House, run by a Mr Malpas, until he was fourteen.

One of his schoolmasters, David Barnard, later married Grace's sister Alice.

In 1863, Grace was taken seriously ill with pneumonia and his father removed him from Rudgway House.

After this illness, Grace grew rapidly to his full height of 6 ft 2 in ( 1. 88 m ).

He continued his education at home where one of his tutors was the Reverend John Dann, who was the Downend parish church curate ; like Mr Barnard before him, Mr Dann became Grace's brother-in-law, marrying Blanche Grace in 1869.