Edward Charles Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just (29 May 1870 – 26 November 1941),[1] was a British banker and politician.
His father, Henry Riversdale Grenfell, was Governor of the Bank of England between 1881 and 1883. William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, was his first cousin.[1]
He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] where he was secretary of the Pitt Club.[1][3] On graduation, he immediately entered a career in banking with a position in Brown Shipley, and subsequently with Smith Ellison, moving to J. S. Morgan & Co. in 1900. In 1904, Grenfell became a partner in the bank and in 1910, when J. P. Morgan restructured his London bank, it was renamed Morgan, Grenfell & Co. to reflect his position as senior partner.[1] He was a director of the Bank of England from 1905 to 1940.
Grenfell married Florence Emily Henderson in 1913.[1] In May 1922, he was elected a Unionist Member of Parliament for the City of London in a by-election and held the seat until 1935, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron St Just, of St Just in Penwith in the County of Cornwall.[1][4] This led to the 1935 City of London by-election, at which there was no contest. Lord St Just died on 26 November 1941, aged 71, and was succeeded in the barony by his only child Peter George Grenfell (1922–1984).[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f "Obituary: Lord St. Just". The Times. No. 49095. 28 November 1941. p. 7.
- ^ "Grenfell, Edward Charles (GRNL889EC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Fletcher, Walter Morley (2011) [1935]. The University Pitt Club: 1835-1935 (First Paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-107-60006-5.
- ^ "No. 34176". The London Gazette. 2 July 1935. p. 4241.
- ^ "Obituary: Lord St. Just". The Times. No. 61973. 30 October 1984. p. 12.
Bibliography
edit- [1] at Grenfell Family History Site
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
