Background
He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and brother of Thomas Grinfield.
He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and brother of Thomas Grinfield.
Lincoln College.
He was a schoolfellow of Thomas de Quincey at Wingfield, Wiltshire. He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, proceeded Bachelor of Arts 1806, Master of Arts 1808, and was ordained in the same year by the Bishop of Lincoln. After studying law at Lincoln"s Inn and the Inner Temple, Grinfield became minister of Laura Chapel, Bath.
lieutenant had been founded by Francis Randolph, its proprietor, in 1756.
Later he moved to London, where he occasionally preached at Kensington. In 1859 Grinfield founded and endowed a lectureship at Oxford on the Septuagint.
He died at Brighton on 9 July 1864, and was buried in Hove churchyard. 1861–1862 Edward Halifax Hansell
1863–1865 John Day Collis
1865–1869 James Augustus Hessey
1869 William Kay
1871 Wharton Booth Marriott
1872–1874 Edward Hayes Plumptre
1882–1884 Edwin Hatch
1886–1890 Alfred Edersheim
1893, 1895–1897 Charles Henry Hamilton Wright
1901–1905 Henry Adeney Redpath
1905–1911 Robert Henry Charles
1920 Henry Saint John Thackeray
1919–1921 George Buchanan Gray
1927–1931 Charles Harold Dodd
1935–1939 Godfrey Rolles Driver
1943–1945 Thomas Walter Manson
1945–1949 George Dunbar Kilpatrick
1961–1965 George Bradford Caird
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