Ancestral Trails 2016 » Cecil Alfred GRENFELL (1864-1924)

Personal data Cecil Alfred GRENFELL 

  • He was born on February 13, 1864 in Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
  • Title: Colonel
  • He died on August 11, 1924 in Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, he was 60 years old.

Household of Cecil Alfred GRENFELL

He is married to Lillian Maud SPENCER-CHURCHILL.

They got married on October 6, 1898 at The Strand, London, Middlesex, he was 34 years old.


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Notes about Cecil Alfred GRENFELL

Colonel Cecil Alfred Grenfell (13 February 1864 - 11 August 1924) was a British Liberal politician.

Grenfell was the son of Pascoe du Pré Grenfell, of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, grandson of Pascoe Grenfell. His mother was Sophia (née Grenfell). Cecil Grenfell was one of fifteen recorded children born to Pascoe and Sophia. His schooling included time at Eton.

Of his eight brothers; three died in battle. Lieutenant Robert Septimus Grenfell died in a cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and his two youngest brothers (twins) were both killed in the First World War. One of the twins, Francis Octavius Grenfell received the Victoria Cross in 1914, but was killed in 1915.

Grenfell was appointed a captain in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry on 9 March 1898. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in South Africa, he was in February 1900 seconded for active service with the Imperial Yeomanry, where he was on 3 February 1900 commissioned a lieutenant with the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Army. He was later promoted to colonel. Grenfell was MP for Bodmin between the two general elections of 1910, but then stood down.

Personal life
Grenfell married Lady Lilian Maud Spencer-Churchill, daughter of George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, in 1898. They had two daughters, Iris Consuelo and Harry St Leger Grenfell. He died in August 1924, aged 60. His wife survived him by 27 years and died in January 1951, aged 77.
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Cecil Alfred GRENFELL

Cecil Alfred GRENFELL
1864-1924

1898

Lillian Maud SPENCER-CHURCHILL
1873-1951

Iris Consuelo GRENFELL
1900-1988
Harry St Leger GRENFELL
1905-1985
Daphne Mary GRENFELL
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Birthday February 13, 1864

  • The temperature on February 13, 1864 was about 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 1 » Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
    • February 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
    • April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
    • May 7 » The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
    • May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
    • June 12 » American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

Day of marriage October 6, 1898

  • The temperature on October 6, 1898 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
    • August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
    • August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
    • September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
    • October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
    • November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.

Day of death August 11, 1924

  • The temperature on August 11, 1924 was between 10.7 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
    • April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
    • April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
    • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
    • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
    • October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
    • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.


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