Major-General Sir Coleridge Grove KCB (26 September 1839 – 17 May 1920) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary .[ 1]
Early life and education
Grove was born in Wandsworth , the second son of Rt. Hon. Sir William Robert Grove , a Welsh judge and scientist, and Emma Maria Towles.[ 2] [ 3] He attended Balliol College, Oxford , as an Exhibitioner, where he took first classes in Mathematical Moderations and the final school.[ 1]
His sister Imogen Emily married William Edward Hall in 1866,[ 4] while his sister Anna married Herbert Augustus Hills (1837–1907) and was mother to Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills [ 5] and John Waller Hills .[ 6]
Military career
Grove was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1863.[ 7] He went on to serve in Egypt and Sudan .[ 8] He became Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Ireland in 1882[ 9] and Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1883[ 10] moving on to be Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War in 1886[ 11] and Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters after that.[ 12]
Appointed Military Secretary in 1896,[ 13] he developed plans for universal military training in the British Army .[ 14] He retired in 1901.[ 15]
In retirement, he was Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment from November 1901[ 16] to 1920.[ 17]
He had in his possessions a large Elizabethan chest[ 18] which was lost in a great fire in Brussels in 1910.[ 19] He died in 1920.[ 20]
References
^ a b "Death of Sir Coleridge Grove. Services in Egypt". The Times . 18 May 1920. p. 16.
^ Burke, Sir Bernard , ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2319.
^ 1851 England Census
^ Holland, T. E. (2004) "Hall, William Edward (1835–1894) ", rev. Catherine Pease-Watkin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, Retrieved 17 August 2007.
^ Hutchins, R. (2006) "Hills, Edmond Herbert Grove- (1864–1922)’ ", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, online edn, Retrieved 17 August 2007.
^ Green, E. H. H. (2004) "Hills, John Waller (1867–1938) ", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, Retrieved 17 August 2007.
^ "No. 22717" . The London Gazette . 17 March 1863. p. 1514.
^ The War Office The Thames Star, 5 May 1900
^ "No. 25106" . The London Gazette . 12 May 1882. p. 2222.
^ "No. 25196" . The London Gazette . 9 February 1883. p. 722.
^ "No. 25583" . The London Gazette . 4 May 1886. p. 2127.
^ "No. 26572" . The London Gazette . 20 November 1894. p. 6508.
^ "No. 26736" . The London Gazette . 5 May 1896. p. 2647.
^ The Papers of Leopold Amery January 1903 - November 1928
^ "No. 27360" . The London Gazette . 1 October 1901. p. 6400.
^ "No. 27377" . The London Gazette . 15 November 1901. p. 7395.
^ The East Yorkshire Regiment
^ Vanishing England , by P. H. Ditchfield, Illustrated by Fred Roe, Page 197
^ English Collectors Losses at Brussels: Many Exquisite and Precious Things Destroyed in the Fire at the Exhibition New York Times, 28 August 1910
^ The Arts Club and its Members by G A F Rogers, Page 80