Sir Gilbert Edmund Augustine Grindle
(1869-1934), Civil servantSitter in 1 portrait
Sir Gilbert Edmund Augustine Grindle
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1931
NPG x167991
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Dr Ben Knighton
13 June 2019, 22:18
Sir Gilbert Edmund Augustine Grindle (1869-1934) CMG 22.6.14 KCB 6.6.19 KCMG
born at Pokesdown, Hants, 28 May. Son: Richard Edward Grindle
He won the Chancellor’s essay prize at Oxford writing on church history in 1892. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Secretary in the Colonial Office before 1914. Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. Deputy Permanent Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office 1925. Appointed attorney in its investment matters 1928.
Austin Gee
07 September 2018, 05:43
Sir Gilbert Grindle became Deputy Permanent Under-secretary at the Colonial Office in 1925.
Ann Katerine Susan Gaja, née Grindle
11 February 2020, 12:03
Sir Gilbert Grindle's son was Richard Edmund Grindle (1908 - 1975); he also had four daughters.
He wrote on 'The Destruction of Paganism in the Roman Empire from Constantine to Justinian' and won the Chancellor's Essay prize in 1892.
He married Lilian Amelia Gray in 1899. She was the daughter of Dr Edward Benjamin Gray of Exeter College and a childhood friend of Lewis Carroll. She is described in The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton N. Cohen, Vol. I and in The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, ed. R. L. Green, Vol. II.