Author: Grimaldi, Stacey
Biography:
GRIMALDI, Stacey (1790-1863: ODNB)
He was the second son of William Grimaldi (1751-1830), a miniature painter, and his wife Frances Barker (d 1813). The Grimaldi family belonged to the Genoese nobility: William was the Marquess Grimaldi and Stacey inherited the title after the deaths of his father and elder brother. The family had fled to England in 1684. Stacey Grimaldi was born in London on 18 Oct. 1790 and in 1806 he was apprenticed to Henry Hughes, an attorney of Haberdashers’ Hall in the City of London. He became a very successful solicitor, practising from premises in Copthall Court in the City. Grimaldi was a genealogist and antiquary who was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1824. On 16 Nov. 1825 he married Mary Ann Knapp (1803-77); they had at least six sons and three daughters. The children had the middle name Beaufort, a nod to the family’s descent from the Lords of Beaufort or Belforte. In 1828 they moved to Maze Hill, Greenwich, Kent. His published works include Synopsis of the History of England (1825), Origines genealogicae (1828), and The Genealogy of the House of Grimaldi (1834). Grimaldi contributed extensively to GM from 1813 to 1861. Probably in 1861 he moved to Herndon House, Eastry, Kent, and he died there on 28 Mar. 1863, leaving effects of under £1500. The work listed in this bibliography, The Toilet, is a companion volume to A Suit of Armour for Youth (1824) which is mainly in prose with brief snatches of verse scattered throughout. Both books have illustrations by William Grimaldi. (ODNB 2 Oct. 2024; ancestry.co.uk 2 Oct. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 2 Oct. 2024; Elizabeth Budd Bentley, Elegant Necessities: The Grimaldi Picture Books for Children [2001]) SR
Other Names:
- S. G.
- S. Grimaldi