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Sir
Coleridge Grove
Portrait by Helen Donald-Smith
Born26 September 1839
Wandsworth, London
Died17 May 1920(1920-05-17) (aged 80)
Knightsbridge, London
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
Years of service1863–1901
RankMajor-general
Battles / warsMahdist War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
RelationsSir William Robert Grove (father)

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.

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. He attended Balliol College, Oxford, as an Exhibitioner, where he took first classes in Mathematical Moderations and the final school.

His sister Imogen Emily married William Edward Hall in 1866, while his sister Anna married Herbert Augustus Hills (1837–1907) and was mother to Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills and John Waller Hills.

Military career

Grove was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1863. He went on to serve in Egypt and Sudan. He became Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Ireland in 1882 and Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1883 moving on to be Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War in 1886 and Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters after that.

Appointed Military Secretary in 1896, he developed plans for universal military training in the British Army. He retired in 1901.

In retirement, he was Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment from November 1901 to 1920.

He had in his possessions a large Elizabethan chest which was lost in a great fire in Brussels in 1910. He died in 1920.

References

  1. ^ "Death of Sir Coleridge Grove. Services in Egypt". The Times. 18 May 1920. p. 16.
  2. Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2319.
  3. 1851 England Census
  4. 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.
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  6. Green, E. H. H. (2004) "Hills, John Waller (1867–1938)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Retrieved 17 August 2007.
  7. "No. 22717". The London Gazette. 17 March 1863. p. 1514.
  8. The War Office The Thames Star, 5 May 1900
  9. "No. 25106". The London Gazette. 12 May 1882. p. 2222.
  10. "No. 25196". The London Gazette. 9 February 1883. p. 722.
  11. "No. 25583". The London Gazette. 4 May 1886. p. 2127.
  12. "No. 26572". The London Gazette. 20 November 1894. p. 6508.
  13. "No. 26736". The London Gazette. 5 May 1896. p. 2647.
  14. The Papers of Leopold Amery January 1903 - November 1928
  15. "No. 27360". The London Gazette. 1 October 1901. p. 6400.
  16. "No. 27377". The London Gazette. 15 November 1901. p. 7395.
  17. The East Yorkshire Regiment
  18. Vanishing England, by P. H. Ditchfield, Illustrated by Fred Roe, Page 197
  19. English Collectors Losses at Brussels: Many Exquisite and Precious Things Destroyed in the Fire at the Exhibition New York Times, 28 August 1910
  20. The Arts Club and its Members by G A F Rogers, Page 80
Military offices
Preceded bySir Reginald Gipps Military Secretary
1896–1901 		Succeeded bySir Ian Hamilton
Honorary titles
Preceded byWilliam Hardy Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment
1901–1920 		Succeeded byFrancis Seymour Inglefield
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