Davies left the diplomatic service in 1974 when he joined Morgan Grenfell.

An Etonian who represented his school at cricket, Grenfell joined the army in 1899 and first served in the Second Boer War in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Eventually as the business outgrew Muntz ’ s own rolling mill in Birmingham, he joined in partnership with Pascoe Grenfell and sons who produced it at their Swansea mill as ‘ Muntz ’ s Patent Metal Company ’.

* Grenfell Horace Gerald Smith-Dorrien ( born 1904 ) served in the army, reaching the rank of Brigadier.

Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE ( née Phipps ; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979 ) was an English actress, comedienne, monologist and singer-songwriter.

Morgan & Company ( after 1910 Morgan, Grenfell & Company ), of London.

After the death of his father in 1890, Morgan took control of J. S. Morgan & Co. which was renamed Morgan, Grenfell & Company in 1910.

After the death of his father in 1890, Morgan gained control of J. S. Morgan & Co ( renamed Morgan, Grenfell & Company in 1910 ).

* Joyce Grenfell ( 1910 – 1979 ), English actress, comedienne and singer-songwriter

Sir John Grenfell Crawford AC CBE ( 4 April 1910 – 1984 ) was an economist and a key architect of Australia's Post-War growth.

* Grenfell House Museum: Built between 1909 and 1910, it was the home of Dr. Grenfell, his wife Anne, and their three children.

The collection was edited by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in 1900 – 1901.

Since Grenfell was Unwin's heroine, the encouragement gave Unwin a tremendous boost and he was inspired to break into show business.

Jack Grenfell and was the subject of a short story titled " The ' Inside ' Story " written by Rev.

According to Dr. Grenfell, the wedding was originally supposed to take place in the parsonage, but because of a bake sale on the lawn of the Bethel United Methodist Church, was moved at the last minute to the Elmwood Chapel, on the site of the Elmwood Cemetery in Bethel, in order to allow the event to remain private.

Barker was the third comedy professional to be given a memorial at Westminster Abbey, after Joyce Grenfell and Les Dawson.

9 / 2687 ) was published in Grenfell and Hunt's Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol.

The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO ( 30 March 1888 – 26 May 1915 ), was a British soldier and poet of World War I.

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.

In a letter that was written in October 1914, Grenfell wrote " I adore war.

Grenfell perhaps represented the last generation of young men for whom war was considered mainly to bring glory rather than suffering.

Julian's younger brother Gerald William ( Billy ) Grenfell was killed in action on 30 July 1915 within a mile of where Julian had been wounded.

On 11 November 1985, Grenfell was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.

Nancy Astor, née Nancy Langhorne, was her mother's sister and Grenfell often visited her at Astor's home, Cliveden.

Grenfell was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist, a religious organisation based on Christianity and spiritual healing.

Grenfell was created an Officer of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1946.

Henry Lawson was born in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales.

In 1999 Morgan Grenfell Private Equity acquired Piaggio, but a quickly hoped-for sale was dashed by a failed joint venture in China.

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough was an all round sportsman, politician and public servant who performed many good works for the town A number of notable figures can be counted amongst Maidenhead's current and former residents.

The novel White Eskimo ( 1972 ), arguably his best-known work, was inspired in part by Wilfred Grenfell.

Francis Octavius Grenfell, VC ( 4 September 1880 – 24 May 1915 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Grenfell was 33 years old, and a Captain in the 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed during the Action of Elouges took place for which he was awarded the VC.

* 1 January 1915-Lieutenant The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell, 1st ( Royal ) Dragoons is appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in recognition of service with the Expeditionary Force-On 17 November he succeeded in reaching a point behind the enemy's trenches and making an excellent reconnaissance, furnishing early information of a pending attack by the enemy.

On 24 August 1914 during the action of Elouges, Belgium, when the flank guard was attacked by a German corps, Major Alexander handled his battery against overwhelming odds with such conspicuous success that all his guns were saved notwithstanding that they had to be withdrawn by hand by himself and volunteers led by a Captain ( Francis Octavus Grenfell ) of the 9th Lancers.

He had a twin brother, Riversdale Grenfell, also in the 9th Lancers, who was killed in action in September 1914.

On 24 August 1914 at Audregnies, Belgium, Captain Grenfell rode with the regiment in a charge against a large body of unbroken German infantry.

Notable events included a Victoria Cross for Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell for his actions in saving the guns of 119th Battery, Royal Field Artillery on 24 August 1914 ( he was later killed in action on 24 May 1915, as was his twin brother, Riversdale, a yeomanry officer who attached to 9th Lancers ), and the regiment's participation in the final " lance on lance " action of the First World War on 7 September 1914 at Moncel in which Lieutenant Colonel David Campbell led a charge of two troops of B Squadron and overthrew a squadron of the 1st Guard Dragoons.

* 1865 – Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary ( d. 1940 )

2008 ' Habitus ', in Grenfell, M. ( ed ) Pierre Bourdieu: Key concepts.

* 1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador ( b. 1865 ).

Wodehouse, Keith Waterhouse, Quentin Crisp, Olivia Manning, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Grenfell, E. M. Delafield, Stevie Smith, Virginia Graham, Joan Bakewell, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Peter Dickinson.

* Oxyrhynchus Papyri — these numerous papyri fragments were discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in and around Oxyrhynchus.

* February 28 – Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador ( d. 1940 )

* May 26 – Julian Grenfell, poet ( killed in action ) ( b. 1888 )

* October 9 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador ( b. 1865 )

* March 20 – John Pascoe Grenfell, British admiral of the Brazilian Navy ( b. 1800 )

The broadcast produced Unwin's first fan mail, from Joyce Grenfell who had been impressed by his performance.

* Power and Production ( Architects: George Grenfell Baines and H. J. Reifenberg.

Grenfell's wife, Dr. Clarine Coffin Grenfell, in her book Women My Husband Married, including Marian Anderson.

Monica Grenfell.