Background
He was a son of the Review John Greaves of Colemore, Hampshire, and brother of John Greaves, Nicholas Greaves and of Sir Edward Greaves.
He was a son of the Review John Greaves of Colemore, Hampshire, and brother of John Greaves, Nicholas Greaves and of Sir Edward Greaves.
He was educated at Charterhouse School, and was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1627, becoming fellow in 1636, and deputy-reader of Arabic 1637.
He stood in for Edward Pocock who was out of the country from 1637 to 1640. He proceeded Bachelor of Divinity in 1641, and was appointed rector of Dunsby, near Sleaford, in Lincolnshire. He also held another living near London.
He proceeded Doctor of Divinity in 1661.
He was admitted to a prebend in Peterborough Cathedral 23 October 1666, being then rector of Benefield in Northamptonshire. He was obliged to resign this rectory some years before his death on account of an impediment in his speech.
The rest of his life was spent at Weldon, Northamptonshire, where he had purchased an estate, and dying there in 1676, he was buried in the chancel of Weldon Church.