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Grieve (surname)
Grieve is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Grieve (born 1939), Welsh television and film director * Basil Grieve (1864–1917), English cricketer * Ben Grieve (born 1976), American former Major League baseball player * Bessie Grieve (1923-1996), aka Bessie Skea, Orkney writer * Bill Grieve (1900-1979), American baseball umpire * Brent Grieve (born 1969), Canadian former ice hockey player * Brian Grieve (1907–1997), Australian botanist * C. M. Grieve (1892–1978), Scottish writer * David Grieve (1808-1889) Scottish geologist * Dominic Grieve (born 1956), British politician and barrister * Gordon Grieve (1912–1993), New Zealand politician * Harold Grieve (1901–1993), American motion picture art director * Very Rev Henry Grieve (1738-1810) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1783 * Iain Grieve (born 1987), Botswana-born rugby union player * James Nicol Grieve (1855–1918), Ontario farmer and political figure * Jock Grieve (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Grieve
Andrew Grieve (born 28 November 1939) is a British television and film director. Grieve's credits include ''Wire in the Blood''. '' On the Black Hill'', the screenplay of which he also wrote, won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 1988. He has also directed episodes of ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' and ''Hornblower''. His work on ''Hornblower'' won him the Silver FIPA at the Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming in 1999. He has since written and directed the BBC drama-documentary ''Heroes and Villains'' episode on Hernán Cortés Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (; ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish '' conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of w .... External links * References Living people 1939 births Welsh film directors Mass media people from Cardiff {{tv-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grieve (Lord Provost)
Right Hon John Grieve FRSE FSA (d.1803) was a Scottish merchant and politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1782 to 1784. He was highly influential in the “Mound Project” linking Edinburgh's Old and New Towns. He was also a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. Life He is thought to have been born around 1740. He entered local politics as a Town Councillor in 1765. He served as the City Treasurer 1769 to 1771, a Bailie 1771 to 1779. In 1773 in Peter Williamson's first Edinburgh Post Office directory he is listed as living at the head of Roxburgh Close on the Royal Mile. He served as Dean of Guild from 1779 to 1782. In 1782 he succeeded David Steuart as Lord Provost, the highest position available in local politics in Scotland. Whilst some records show this as ending in 1784, he curiously writes an open letter in 1788 to all magistrates of Scottish Towns signing it as "Lord Provost of Edinburgh". Grant states he served a second term as provost 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Grieve
Thomas Alan Grieve (born March 4, 1948) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball from 1970 to 1979 for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. He was nicknamed "TAG", which are his initials, and most notably as “Mr. Ranger”, as he was a member of the Texas Rangers’ 1972 inaugural season. In 2010, Grieve was inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Biography Baseball career Grieve was drafted by the Washington Senators in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1966 MLB June Amateur Draft from Pittsfield High School. Before signing with Washington in the summer of 1966, Grieve played in the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) with the Chatham Red Sox. He hit .416 in 25 games, and in 2010 was inducted into the CCBL Hall of Fame. Grieve's best season was 1976 with the Rangers when he hit .255, belted 20 home runs and had 81 runs batted in. Grieve was dealt from the Rangers to the Mets in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cuthbert Grieve
Robert Cuthbert Grieve, VC (19 June 1889 – 4 October 1957) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Early life Born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, to John and Annie Deas Grieve (née Brown), Grieve was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and then Wesley College. He became an interstate commercial traveller in the softgoods trade. First World War After nine months service in the Victorian Rangers, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a private on 9 June 1915. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 37th Battalion in January 1916, was promoted to lieutenant in May 1916, and after training in England, was promoted to captain in France in February 1917. In France he served at Armentières, Bois-Grenier, L'Epinette, Ploegsteert Wood, Messines, La Basse Ville, and Warneton. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grieve (town Planner)
Sir Robert Grieve FRSE RTPI RIAS FRSGS LLD DLit (11 December 1910 – 25 October 1995) was a Scottish polymath: engineer, planner, academic, mountaineer, poet, raconteur and visionary. Grieve played a pivotal part in both the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and the Highlands and Islands Development Board. Reflecting on his career, he described it as a process of "falling up the ladder". Biography Early life Grieve was born on 11 December 1910 in Maryhill, Glasgow in a tenement, one of six children to Peter Grieve and his wife, Catherine Boyle. Grieve's father, was a Clydeside boilermaker who did little with his family other than provide a weekly wage packet. His mother, Catherine, was radically socialist, well read and a caring and faithful Roman Catholic. Catherine took Grieve out of the local Roman Catholic School, recognising his potential and intelligence. She was upset that she could not send Grieve to St Aloysius or other fee-paying Roman Catholic school, instead sending him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Grieve
Richard Grieve (born 25 January 1970) is an Australian actor, who has worked extensively in film, television, theatre and musical theatre, but is perhaps best known for his roles in the British soap ''Emmerdale'', and two Australian television series, '' Neighbours'' and ''Home and Away''. Career Australia Grieve was born in Melbourne, and began his career in 1988 studying drama and dance at Victoria University. He then completed his formal training in Sydney, at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). He joined the cast of '' Neighbours'' in 1994, playing the part of Sam Kratz until 1996, when he joined ''Home and Away'', playing Dr Lachlan Fraser. His other television credits include ''The Man From Snowy River'', ''the series'', ''Newlyweds'', '' E Street'', '' State Coroner'' and ''Wintertime'' for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has performed with the State theatre companies of Australia. He played Julian in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Grieve
William Percival Grieve, QC (25 March 1915 – 22 August 1998) was a British Conservative Party politician. Grieve was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He became a barrister, and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1938, and a Queen's Counsel in 1962. He was assistant recorder of Leicester 1956-65 and became recorder of Northampton in 1965 and Deputy Chairman of Lincoln ( Holland) Quarter Sessions in 1962. Grieve contested the 1962 Lincoln by-election, where he lost heavily to Labour's Dick Taverne. At the 1964 general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Solihull, and re-elected until his retirement from Parliament at the 1983 general election. He briefly employed the slogan "Grieve for Solihull". He married, in 1949, Evelyn Raymonde Louise (d. 1991), daughter of Commandant Hubert Mijouain, of Paris, and maternal granddaughter of Sir George Roberts, 1st and last baronet.Who was Who vol. X, 1996-2000, St Martin's Press, p. 231 Their s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ollie Grieve
Ollie Grieve (30 October 1920 – 2 February 1978) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). I ... (VFL). References Ollie GrieveaBlueseum External links * 1920 births 1978 deaths Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players John Nicholls Medal winners Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Grieve
Maud Grieve in 1928 Sophie Emma Magdalene Grieve (nĂ©e Law; 4 May 1858 – 21 December 1941) also known as Maud, Margaret, Maude or Mrs. Grieve, was the principal and founder of The Whins Medicinal and Commercial Herb School and Farm at Chalfont St. Peter in Buckinghamshire, England. Grieve was a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity. The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (No ..., President of the British Guild of Herb Growers, and Fellow of the British Science Guild. She is best known for her 1931 book, ''A Modern Herbal''. Life Grieve was born in 1858 at 75 Upper Street, Islington, London.Baker, A. (2004-09-23). Grieve [nĂ©e Law], Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud] (1858–1941), herb grower. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2 Jan. 2018, Selink/ref> Gri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grieve
Mary Margaret Grieve (11 April 1906 – 19 February 1998) was a Scottish magazine editor and journalist. She began her journalistic career working for local newspapers and specialised magazines before being appointed editor of ''Woman'' magazine in 1937. Grieve was made its associate editor not long after before returning to the position of editor in 1940, which she held until her early retirement in 1962. She led a group of editors who advised the Home Office on woman's duties during the Second World War. In retirement, Grieve authored two books offering tips for school-leaving girls and co-ran a Pâté making company. Biography Early life Grieve was born at 3 Blackburn Road in Ayr, Ayrshire on 11 April 1906. She was the youngest daughter and the second child of the fundholder Robert Grieve and the nurse Annie Craig, ''née'' Stark. Grieve spent most of her childhood bedridden due to illness, and was home-schooled until the age of 16, when she briefly attended a small Glasgow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Grieve
Kenneth Alan Grieve (17 March 1942 – 15 November 2016) was a Scottish television director. Originally a cameraman, he moved into directing and began his career with ''Coronation Street''. Early life and education Grieve was born and brought up in Edinburgh, the son of Henry Grieve, a plant manager at British Aluminium, and his wife, Lesley, a seamstress. He also had an older brother named Robin. He attended the Edinburgh Academy, where he excelled in geography and history, and won a scholarship to Bryanston School in Dorset. Career His first job was as a trainee studio cameraman with Granada Television. He became one of its elite crew, strong and skilled enough to manoeuvre the huge cameras on live pop shows. He later further trained as a director of dramas and documentaries, working on ''Coronation Street'' and ''Crown Court'' in the mid-1970s. He subsequently directed the 1979 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Destiny of the Daleks'' for the BBC, and episodes of ''The Bill'' and ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grieve (VC)
John Grieve VC (3 May 1821 – 1 December 1873) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Grieve was 34 years old, and a sergeant-major in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), British Army at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War when the following deed took place on 25 October 1854 at Balaklava, Crimea, for which he was awarded the VC. His citation in the London Gazette read: Grieve later achieved the rank of lieutenant and buried in Inveresk cemetery. His VC is on display at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia. It had been in the possession of his nephews A. I and J. H. Oliver of Cowandilla, South Australia. He died in East Lothian on 1 December 1873 and was buried in Inveresk parish churchyard. The grave lies in the centre of the section of the original churchyard west of the church. Possible rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
