Career
He was commissioned an ensign in the Grenadier Guards on 1 February 1814, and fought with that regiment at Quatre Bras and Waterloo. He was also present at the capture of Péronne, and soon after was appointed aide-de-camp to General Sir John Lambert. He later became Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Wellington, and served on his staff until the end of the occupation of France.
The Duke made him his private secretary upon being appointed Master-General of the Ordnance in 1819, and he continued to serve in this capacity when Wellington was made commander-in-chief (1827), prime minister (1828), foreign secretary (1834), and commander-in-chief again (1842).
Greville was appointed Bath King of Arms in 1829, and served as secretary to the Cinque Ports while Wellington was Lord Warden. He died in 1864 in Hillingdon.
He was the brother of Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, the diarist, and of Henry William Greville. Frances Harriett Greville (8 March 1824 – 8 March 1887), married Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond on 28 November 1843
Georgiana Maria Greville (3 May 1826 – 14 January 1872)
Lieutenant
Colonel Arthur Charles Greville (18 May 1827 – 27 May 1901)
Augusta Mary Greville (24 June 1831 – 1921), married George Montagu Warren Sandford in 1858
Lieutenant
Cavendish Hubert Greville (3 September 1835 – 5 November 1854), killed at the Battle of Inkerman
Greville made 7 known appearances in first-class matches from 1815 until 1823. He was mainly associated with Marylebone Club (Master Control Console) but also played for Middlesex and Hampshire. Archive record.