Edward Grimston

The Honourable Edward Harbottle Grimston (2 April 1812 – 4 May 1881) was an English amateur cricketer and a Conservative Party politician who held a seat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1841.

Early life Grimston was born on 2 April 1812 at Mayfair, London. He was the second son of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam and Lady Charlotte Jenkinson (a daughter of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool). Three of his brothers James, Robert and Francis all played, as did his son Walter and his nephew Lord Hyde. He was a right-handed batsman and an underarm medium pace bowler.

Career

Grimston was elected at the 1835 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the borough of St Albans in Hertfordshire. He was re-elected in 1837, but resigned his seat in 1841

Religious career After resigning his parliamentary seat, Grimston took holy orders and was rector of Pebmarsh (a parish of which his father was patron) from 1841 until his death in 1881.

Personal life On 15 June 1842, Grimston was married to Frances Horatia Morier (1815–1906), a daughter of diplomat John Philip Morier and Horatia Maria Frances Seymour (eldest daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, the youngest son of the 1st Marquess of Hertford). Among her six sisters was Katherine Georgina Morier, who married his brother (the Rev. Hon. Francis Sylvester Grimston), and Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier, who married Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset. Together, they were the parents of:

Grimston died on 4 May 1881 at Pebmarsh, Essex.