Major-General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

Sir Coleridge Grove (26 September 1839 – 17 May 1920) was a senior

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officer who went on to be

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Early life and education

Grove was born in

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, the second son of Rt. Hon. Sir

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, a Welsh judge and scientist, and Emma Maria Towles.''1851 England Census'' He attended

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...

, 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

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in 1863. He went on to serve in

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and Sudan.The War Office
The Thames Star, 5 May 1900 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

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in 1886 and Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters after that. Appointed

in 1896, he developed plans for universal military training in the

. He retired in 1901. In retirement, he was

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of the

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from November 1901 to 1920. He had in his possessions a large

Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personif ...

chest which was lost in a great fire in

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in 1910. He died in 1920.''The Arts Club and its Members'' by G A F Rogers, Page 80
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References

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