Author: GREVILLE, Robert Fulke Murray
Biography:
GREVILLE, Robert Fulke Murray (1800-67: ancestry.co.uk)
The anonymously published Outlines Selected from the Blotting Book of an Invalid includes tales and, in a section entitled “Sparsa,” a selection of poems. The book is reliably attributed to Robert Fulke Murray Greville and includes verses written while he was a pupil at Eton College. He was born on 1 Dec. 1800 and baptised on 1 Jan. 1801 at St. Marylebone, London. He was the only son of Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1824) and his wife Louisa, daughter of Baron Cathcart and widow of the 2nd Earl of Mansfield. His father was MP for Warwick and New Windsor, army officer, and a member of the king’s household. Robert Greville the son was educated at Eton before matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 29 Jan. 1820. He did not take a degree. On 25 Apr. 1822 he married Georgina Cecilia Lock at St. George’s, Hanover Square; they had one son. In 1824 he became a cornet in the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons; he was later Captain of the 35th Regiment. After his father’s death he succeeded to his property in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where, in 1831, he stood for election but was defeated. Greville moved to Europe but returned in 1853 when he became heavily involved in projects at Milford Haven which stretched his financial resources. He died on 12 Sept. 1867 and was buried at St. Kathrine’s cemetery in Milford Haven. His estate was encumbered by debt and passed to one of his creditors. (ancestry.co.uk 13 Nov. 2024; ECA; ACAD; Dictionary of Welsh Biography online [for Charles Francis Greville] 13 Nov. 2024)