Background
Third son of John Whitehead Greaves (1807-1880), owner of Llechwedd quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog in Merionethshire, and his wife Ellen Stedman (1816-1887), as a young man in 1873 and 1874 he undertook a world trip.
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Richard Greaves
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He acquired the Wern estate at Tremadog in 1886 and in about 1899 bought the historic Brynkir estate at Dolbenmaen in Caernarvonshire. Greaves was interested in all things mechanical and instigated agricultural and domestic improvements on his estates. He served as Chairman of the Ffestiniog Railway from 1908 to 1920 and also as Chairman of the Carnarvonshire & Merionethshire Steamship Company.
In 1896 he was Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
His memorial is in the church of Street Beuno at Dolbenmaen.
