Eric Grove

Eric John Grove (3 December 1948 – 15 April 2021) was a British naval historian and defence analyst.

Biography Eric John Grove was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, on 3 December 1948. When he was twelve, his family moved to Aberdeen, where his father worked as a doctor. During the 1970s he wrote books on tanks and armoured warfare. His principal work was with the Foundation for International Security's Common Security Programme followed by its project on Maritime Power and European Security which involved the creation of a back channel, later official, dialogue between the Soviet, US and Royal Navies. He also taught at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Cambridge. In 2013-15 he was Professor of Naval History and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Applied Research in Security Innovation at Hope University in Liverpool.

Grove made contributions to many television programmes including BBC2's Timewatch series, Deep Wreck Mysteries, Channel 4's Hunt for the Hood and the Bismarck and the series The Battleships and the Airships.

Grove was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Vice President of the Society for Nautical Research and a Member of Council of the Navy Records Society (for which he edited the Naval Staff History, The Defeat of the Enemy Attack Upon Shipping, published in 1997). In 2017 he married Swee Poh Kanagasabay, a nurse.