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At the age of 50 he became an enthusiastic golfer and then from 1923 to 1925 he, together with his brother James, started sponsoring a number of golf tournaments and matches mostly at his home club of Verulam near St Albans. From late 1925 he started employing Abe Mitchell as his private coach. In early 1926 the idea for a match between British ...
James Walter Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam (11 May 1852 – 11 November 1924), known as Viscount Grimston from 1852 to 1895, was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. He inherited his peerage in 1895.
The Hon. John Grimston was elected to the House of Commons as MP for St Albans at the by-election in 1943, [4] [5] but was defeated at the 1945 general election by the Labour candidate Cyril Dumpleton. [5] However, he regained the seat at the 1950 general election, [6] which he held until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1959 general ...
Gorhambury House, built by his father in 1777–84. He was the son of James Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston of Gorhambury House and Harriot Walter.. In 1802 he was elected to the House of Commons for St Albans, a seat he held until 1808, when he succeeded his father as fourth Viscount Grimston and second Baron Verulam and entered the House of Lords.
James Brabazon Grimston, 5th Earl of Verulam (11 October 1910 – 13 October 1960) was a British peer and businessman. [1] ... He was mayor of St Albans in 1956; ...
His son, the third Viscount, was Member of Parliament for St Albans and Hertfordshire. In 1790 he was created Baron Verulam, of Gorhambury in the County of Hertford, in the Peerage of Great Britain. [3] He was succeeded by his son, the aforementioned fourth Viscount, who was created Earl of Verulam in 1815.
He joined the local Verulam Golf Club, making large donations to the club including the famous Ryder Cup and sponsorship of the tournament. Ralph Chubb, the poet and printer, lived on College Street in St Albans from 1892 to 1913, and attended St Albans School. His work frequently references the Abbey of St Albans, and he ascribed mystical ...
The title Baron Verulam was created in two separate and unrelated instances: First as Baron Verulam , of Verulam , [ 1 ] in the Peerage of England . It was firstly created for the English philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon (who was also later created Viscount St Albans).