Wilfrid Grigson

Sir Wilfrid Vernon Grigson CSI (1896 – 26 November 1948) was a British soldier and civil servant.

Biography Wilfrid Grigson was born in 1896 in the Vicarage at Pelynt in Cornwall, south-west England, to Canon William Shuckforth Grigson and Mary Beatrice Boldero, and was one of seven brothers, including Geoffrey, Kenneth (1895–July 1918) and John (1893–1943). Five of the brothers died during the First and Second World Wars (the surviving brother being Geoffrey). Wilfrid Grigson was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, in Surrey, before matriculating to Christ Church, Oxford. and in 1948 was knighted.

Personal life Grigson and his wife had two children: Christopher Grigson, a respected engineer naval architect, and Claudia, who later married Henry Chilver.