Joshua_Grigby

Joshua Grigby

Joshua Grigby

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Joshua Grigby (c. 1731 – 26 December 1798) was a Member of Parliament for Suffolk from 1784 to 1790.[1]

Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough

He was the son of Joshua Grigby, a solicitor, and Mary Tubby,[2] and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge.[3] His grandfather, also Joshua Grigby, was lord of the manor of Gonvile Manor, Wymondham, Norfolk.[4]

His father was town clerk of Bury St Edmunds, and after gaining a law degree at Cambridge University, Joshua followed him in this role.

Grigby married, in 1756, Jane Bird, daughter of Thomas Bird and Elizabeth Martyn of Coventry.[5] He died on 26 December 1798, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Drinkstone.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Mary M. Drummond, "Grigby, Joshua (?1731–98), of Drinkstone, Suff.", The History of Parliament.
  2. [2]
    Augustine Page, A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller (Ipswich, 1844), 712–13.
  3. [3]
    John Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, 10 vols. (Cambridge, 1922–54), part 1, 2:268.
  4. [4]
    The Gentleman's Magazine, 99(Jan–Jun 1829):374.
  5. [5]
    Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", The Genealogist, 26(2012):58–76.
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