James Grimble Groves (24 October 1854 – 23 June 1914) was a British brewer and Conservative politician.
Lifeedit
He was the son of William Peer Groves, of Springbank, Pendleton, near Salford and was educated privately and at Owen's College, Manchester.[1] He became chairman and managing director of Groves and Whitnall Limited, owners of the Regent Road Brewery, Salford.[2]
Groves was the chairman of the Salford Conservative Association, and when the Member of Parliament for Salford South announced his retirement prior to the 1900 general election, he was selected as the party's candidate.[3] He held the seat for the Conservatives.
He married in 1878, and made his home at Oldfield Hall, Altrincham, Cheshire. He died in June 1914 aged 59, after a long illness.[2][6] His daughter, Eileen Norah, married Howard Cumming and their daughter was the writer Anne Cumming.[7] One of Groves' son was Robert Marsland Groves, the naval aviation pioneer and senior Royal Air Force commander.[8] Two other sons William Peer Groves and Keith Grimble Groves went on to join the brewery's board.[9]
Notes and referencesedit
^Biographies of New Members, The Times, 19 October 1900, p.10
^"Mr. James Grimble Groves: In Memoriam". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 25 June 1914. p. 6 col B. Retrieved 9 January 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^Richard Davenport-Hines, ‘Cumming, (Felicity) Anne (1917–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 accessed 11 April 2017
^"Personals". Flight. XIII (637 No 10): 161. 3 March 1921. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
^Company biographies, Groves and Whitnall, Retrieved 11 April 2017
External linksedit
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Grimble Groves
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