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| • | William Henry Grenfell, Lord Desborough (October 30, 1855 - January 9, 1945) was an athlete, sportsman and public servant.
He was educated at Harrow School, and Balliol College, Oxford and was the Member of Parliament for Salisbury and later for Hereford City. Politically, he was a Gladstonian Liberal, but he resigned in 1893 rather than support Gladstone's Second Irish Home Rule Bill. He returned to the House of Commons in 1900 as a Conservative.
In 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Desborough, of Taplow, a title he took from the old hundred of Desborough in Buckinghamshire.
He was a man of wide ranging sporting achievement and public service. He rowed for Oxford, and was president both of the University Boat Club and of the Athletic Club. He later became a steward of Henley Royal Regatta. He also enjoyed mountaineering, swimming, fishing and big-game hunting. He was President of the Amateur Fencing Association, Marylebone Cricket Club, and the Lawn Tennis Association. In 1908 he was president of the Olympic games held in London.
During a long career dedicated to public service, he was President of the Thames Conservancy Board (thirty-two years), the London Chamber of Commerce, and the Royal Agricultural Society, amongst many others. He was High Steward of Maidenhead, the nearest town to his home at Taplow Court, Taplow.
He was appointed CVO in 1907 and advanced to KCVO in 1908 and GCVO in 1925; and in 1928 he was admitted as a Knight of the Order of the Garter. From 1924 to 1929 he was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard.He married Ethel Fane in 1887: they had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son was the poet Julian Grenfell, who was killed in action in 1915.
Lord Desborough had the unfortunate distinction of having his obituary erroneously published on 2 December 1920 in The
Source: [wikipedia: william henry grenfell, lord desborough]
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