Alice Grenfell

Alice Grenfell or Alice Pyne (1842 – 8 August 1917) was a British suffrage organiser and honorary secretary of the Women's Progressive Society. In later life she became an expert on ancient Egyptian scarabs.

Life Grenfell married John Granville Grenfell. Their son, Bernard, was born in Birmingham but he was brought up and educated at Clifton College in Bristol, where John taught.

Grenfell was active in the suffrage movement. She became the honorary secretary of the Women's Progressive Society.

Grenfell served on a school board for three years.

In 1908, he became professor of papyrology at Oxford University, however he was ill and she cared for him for four years. During that time the professorship lapsed. He had recovered by 1913.

Works include The Iconography of Bes, and of Phoenician Bes-Hand Scarabs, 1902 The Grenfell Collection of Scarabs, 1916