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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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