Joshua Grigby
Joshua Grigby (c. 1731 – 26 December 1798) was a Member of Parliament for Suffolk from 1784 to 1790.[1]
He was the son of Joshua Grigby, a solicitor, and Mary Tubby,[2] and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge.[3] His grandfather, also Joshua Grigby, was lord of the manor of Gonvile Manor, Wymondham, Norfolk.[4]
His father was town clerk of Bury St Edmunds, and after gaining a law degree at Cambridge University, Joshua followed him in this role.
Grigby married, in 1756, Jane Bird, daughter of Thomas Bird and Elizabeth Martyn of Coventry.[5] He died on 26 December 1798, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Drinkstone.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Mary M. Drummond, "Grigby, Joshua (?1731–98), of Drinkstone, Suff.", The History of Parliament.
- ^ Augustine Page, A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller (Ipswich, 1844), 712–13.
- ^ John Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, 10 vols. (Cambridge, 1922–54), part 1, 2:268.
- ^ a b The Gentleman's Magazine, 99(Jan–Jun 1829):374.
- ^ Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", The Genealogist, 26(2012):58–76.