G RIMTHORPE— C! BOSMONT. GRIMTHORPE. Barony. /. Sin Edmund Beckett, Burt., was cr., 17 Feb. 1886, I 1SS0 BARON GRIMTHORPE of Gritnthorpe(») iu the East Killing,™. York, with a ipec. ran., failing heirs male of his body to those of his father Sir Edmund Beckett, Bart., deed, lie was 1st s. of Edmund Beckett-Df.nison afterwards (1872) Sir Edmund Beckett, (*') Uh Bart., by Maria, da. of William BevehleY, of Beverley, eo. York ; was b. 12 May 1816; cd. at Eton and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; 15. A. and 2Sth Wrangler, 1838; LL.D., 1803; Barrister (Line. Inn), 1S41 ; Queen's Counsel, 1864 ; s'tc. his father as 5th Hart., 24 May 1S74, when he resumed the patronymic of Beckett (only) in lieu of that of Beckett- Dcnison. Chancellor and Yiear Gen. of York, 1877 ; expended large sums in the reparation and [a so called] restoration of St. Alban's Abbey under his own direction as architect. He m , 7 Oct. 1845, at Eecleshall, co. Stafford, Fanny Catherine, 2d da. of John Lo.nsdalk, Bishop of Lichfield (1843-67), by (— ), da. of John Bolland, of ClaphatO. Famili/ Estates. — These, in 1SS3, consisted of 1,663 acres in Lincolnshire ; 1,159 in the east and west ridiugs of Vorkshire and 271 in Herts. Tulal 3,390 worth £7,517 a year. Principal Jlcsidaicc. Batchwood, near St. Alban's, Herts. GRLNSTEAD. i.e., " Grinstead of Grinstead, co. Wilts, Barony (Coif), cv. 1815 ; see " EnmsKILLEN " Earldom [I.], cr. 1789, under the 2d Earl. GRISMOMT, sec Grosmont. GROBY. See "Ferrers de Groby," Barony (Ferrers afterwards Gtvy) cr. 1300 ; forfeited 1554. See "Grey of Grody," Barony (Grey), cr. 1603. GROSMONT, or GRISMONT. i.e., "Beaufort of Caldecote, Grismond, Chepstow, Rac.land, and Gower," Barony (Somerset alias Plantagenct) mentioned in a commission 1 April 1644, with the Earldom of Glamorgan, which see. " The Viscountcy of Grosmont " is, says Sir Harris Nicolas, " another title attributed to the Dukes of Beaufort, a title probably derived from Grosmont in Normandy where there was a Priory which had a cell at Graudmont in Yorkshire. Dale takes no notice of any such dignity and the only trace of a title at all similar is that recited in the Commission just noticed wherein he is styled Baron Beaufort of Caldecot, Grismond, and Gower." The style of Viscount Grosmont is, in 1801 and 1805, on the Duke of Beaufort's Garter plates which are referred to under " Glamorgan." See p. 25, note " d." (») The estate of Grimthorpe was formerly that of the Lords Fitzwilliarn, afterwards Lords Greystock, and the name of the 1st Lord, is appended in 1301 to the Barons' letter to the Pope as " Jladusfd Willielmi, Domin us tic Grinithorp." ( b ) This Edmund was 0th s. of Sir John Beckett the 1st Bart, (so cr. 1813) and sue. two of his brothers in that dignity. His wife was groat grand-niece to Lady Denisou (widow of Sir Thomas Denison, Justice of the King's Bench, 1741-65) under whose will he by Royal lie. 8 Sep. 1816, took the name of Denison, but resumed that of Beckett by another Royal lie., 0 Dec. 1872.
