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Grigg, Edward William Macleay, first Baron Altrincham (1879-1955), colonial administrator and politician

Kenneth Rose

in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

ISBN: 9780198614128
Published online September 2004 | | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33584
Grigg, Edward William Macleay, first Baron Altrincham (1879-1955), colonial administrator and politician

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Grigg, Edward William Macleay, first Baron Altrincham (1879-1955), colonial administrator and politician, was born on 8 September 1879 in Madras, the only son of Henry Bidewell Grigg (d. 1894) of the Indian Civil Service and his wife, Elizabeth Louisa (d. 1920), eldest daughter of Sir Edward Deas Thomson, colonial secretary ...

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