William Percival Grieve, QC (25 March 1915 – 22 August 1998) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Grieve was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He became a barrister, and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1938, and a Queen's Counsel in 1962. He was assistant recorder of Leicester 1956-65 and became recorder of Northampton in 1965 and Deputy Chairman of Lincoln (Holland) Quarter Sessions in 1962.
Grieve contested the 1962 Lincoln by-election, where he lost heavily to Labour's Dick Taverne. At the 1964 general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Solihull, and re-elected until his retirement from Parliament at the 1983 general election. He briefly employed the slogan "Grieve for Solihull".[1]
He married, in 1949, Evelyn Raymonde Louise (d. 1991), daughter of Commandant Hubert Mijouain, of Paris, and maternal granddaughter of Sir George Roberts, 1st and last baronet.[2] Their son Dominic Grieve, QC, PC, was elected MP for Beaconsfield at the 1997 general election, and became Attorney General for England and Wales in May 2010.
References
- ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ptfoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=percy+%22grieve+for+solihull%22&source=bl&ots=_2sjgBKLmC&sig=ACfU3U3AeUOA78-Vi7XsEj-1EAaSLwXHqw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEmNC04YDmAhUHSxUIHcUxAcgQ6AEwAHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=percy%20%22grieve%20for%20solihull%22&f=false
- ^ Who was Who vol. X, 1996-2000, St Martin's Press, p. 231
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and 1979
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Percy Grieve
- Obituary by Patrick Cosgrave
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Martin Lindsay | Member of Parliament for Solihull 1964–1983 | Succeeded by John M. Taylor |