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* 1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador ( b. 1865 ).
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1940 and Wilfred
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG ( 28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940 ) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Sir Wilfred Grenfell ( 1865 – 1940 ), famous medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, was born in Parkgate and was a pupil at the school.
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1940 and Grenfell
Grenfell died of a coronary thrombosis at Kinloch House on 9 October 1940, and his ashes were brought to St Anthony, where they were placed inside a rock face overlooking the harbour.
In 1940, the department was divided with Geoffrey Lloyd and Sir Alfred Faulkner becoming respectively Secretary and Permanent Under-Secretary for Petroleum and David Grenfell and Sir Alfred Hurst respectively Secretary and Permanent Under-Secretary for Mines.
In 1928 he returned to London as a partner in the investment bank Morgan, Grenfell & Co., remaining chairman of Andrew Yule & Co and Yule Catto & Co until 1940.
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