Major-General Sir Coleridge Grove (26 September 1839 – 17 May 1920) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.
Early life and education Grove was born in Wandsworth, the second son of Rt. Hon. Sir William Robert Grove, a Welsh judge and scientist, and Emma Maria Towles.1851 England Census He attended Balliol College, Oxford, as an Exhibitioner, where he took first classes in Mathematical Moderations and the final school.
His sister Imogen Emily married William Edward Hall in 1866,Holland, T. E. (2004) "Hall, William Edward (1835–1894)", rev. Catherine Pease-Watkin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Retrieved 17 August 2007. while his sister Anna married Herbert Augustus Hills (1837–1907) and was mother to Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsHutchins, R. (2006) "Hills, Edmond Herbert Grove- (1864–1922)’", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edn, Retrieved 17 August 2007. and John Waller Hills.Green, E. H. H. (2004) "Hills, John Waller (1867–1938)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Retrieved 17 August 2007.
Military career Grove was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1863. He went on to serve in Egypt and Sudan.The War Office The Thames Star, 5 May 1900 He became Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Ireland in 1882 and Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1883 moving on to be Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War in 1886 and Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters after that.
Appointed Military Secretary in 1896, he developed plans for universal military training in the British Army.The Papers of Leopold Amery January 1903 - November 1928 He retired in 1901.
In retirement, he was Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment from November 1901 to 1920.The East Yorkshire Regiment
He had in his possessions a large Elizabethan chestVanishing England, by P. H. Ditchfield, Illustrated by Fred Roe, Page 197 which was lost in a great fire in Brussels in 1910.English Collectors Losses at Brussels: Many Exquisite and Precious Things Destroyed in the Fire at the Exhibition New York Times, 28 August 1910 He died in 1920.The Arts Club and its Members by G A F Rogers, Page 80
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