The Honourable and Reverend Edward Grimston
(1822-1881)
13 April 1861

Volume 3, page 88, sitting number 3043.

The Honourable Edward Harbottle Grimston was born in Mayfair on 2 April 1812, the second son of James Bucknall Grimston, later 1st Earl of Verulam. On 15 June 1842 he married Frances Horatia Morier, daughter of John Philip Morier and his wife, Horatia Maria Francis Seymour. The couple had three children.

The Clergy List of 1866 records the Honourable Edward Harbottle Grimston as Rector of Pebmarsh and Great Henny in Essex.

He was also an English amateur cricketer, who was mainly associated with Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), making thirty known appearances in first-class matches from 1832 to 1849. He was a right-handed batsman (RHB) and an underarm medium pace bowler.

He died at Pebmarsh on 4 May 1881, leaving an estate valued at £20,833. According to a brief obituary in the Pall Mall Gazette (9 May 1881); 'Mr Grimston was educated at Christ Church and All Souls' College Oxford (of which college he became a fellow) and was M.P.  for St Albans from 1835 to February, 1841, when he retired. He then entered the Church and was appointed to the family living at Pebmarsh, and in 1845 was appointed rector of Great Henny, Essex.'