Alan Thomas Grieve, (born 22 January 1928) is a lawyer, company director and chairman of the

Jerwood Foundation The Jerwood Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation in the United Kingdom. In 1999 the Jerwood Foundation established the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, a registered charity under English law. History The Jerwood Foundation was establi ...

. Alan Grieve was born in London, England. He was educated at

Aldenham School Aldenham School is a co-educational independent school for pupils aged eleven to eighteen, located between Elstree and the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, England. There is also a preparatory school for pupils from the ages of five to ele ...

and

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

. He undertook

National Service National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. The l ...

and was commissioned in 1949 in the

Royal Armoured Corps The Royal Armoured Corps is the component of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle. It includes most of the A ...

(

14th/20th King's Hussars The 14th/20th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was created by the amalgamation of the 14th King's Hussars and the 20th Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it amalgamated with the Royal Hussa ...

); he subsequently served as a Territorial Army officer in the

City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) was a yeomanry regiment of the British Territorial Army, formed in 1901 from veterans of the Second Boer War. In World War I it served dismounted in the Gallipoli Campaign but reverted to the mounted r ...

. He joined the

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solicitors Taylor & Humbert in 1958 after gaining commercial, city and merger and acquisition experience as an assistant solicitor at

Slaughter and May Slaughter and May is an international law firm headquartered in Bunhill Row, London. Founded in 1889, Slaughter and May is considered to be one of the most prestigious law firms in the world and is a member of the "Magic Circle" of elite London ...

. He became senior partner of Taylor & Humbert in 1980. During those 22 years the firms expanded as a commercial and private client practice and established Interlex, an international grouping of lawyers. Grieve organised and managed the merger of Taylor & Humbert with the City firm of Parker Garrett and the merged firm was renamed Taylor Garrett where Grieve remained the Senior Partner until 1989 when Taylor Garrett merged with Joynson Hicks to become Taylor Joynson Garrett. Grieve remained a consultant to the enlarged firm which is now

Taylor Wessing Taylor Wessing LLP is an international law firm with 28 offices internationally. The firm has over 300 partners and over 1000 lawyers worldwide. The company was formed as a result of a merger of the British law firm ''Taylor Joynson Garrett'' a ...

. Grieve established the Jerwood Foundation for his client,

John Jerwood John Michael Jerwood (17 September 191823 June 1991) was an English businessman and philanthropist. John Jerwood was born in 1918, some six months after his father, Major John Hugh Jerwood MC, was killed in action. His mother Cecilia Mary Herk ...

, in 1977 and has been running it as chairman since Jerwood's death in 1991, responsible for the distribution of some £109 million in funding for the arts in Britain, as well as for accumulating the foundation's art collection, Jerwood Collection of Modern and Contemporary British art, formerly on display at the

Jerwood Gallery The Hastings Contemporary is a museum of contemporary British art located on The Stade in Hastings, East Sussex and is a not-for-profit organisation. The gallery opened in March 2012 as the Jerwood Gallery and cost £4m to build. The gallery c ...

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

.Simon Tait
"Alan Grieve: Is the future of the arts in his hands? A serial giver owns up"
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'', 11 March 2012. He was honoured with a

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for services to the arts, in 2003 and is an Honorary Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and Trinity College of Music, London (TCML). Grieve has five children; his eldest daughter is

Amanda Harlech Amanda Jane Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech (''née'' Grieve; May 1958) is a British creative consultant and writer with a long association with the couturiers John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Ha ...

, Charlie Grieve is CEO of Brandcast Media and publisher at Magdalen Medical Publishing, Lara Wardle is Executive Director of the Jerwood Foundation, Tom Grieve is the architect responsible for the Jerwood Gallery and Ivan Grieve is an artist.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grieve, Alan 1928 births Living people People educated at Aldenham School Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Leaders of organizations Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English lawyers 20th-century British Army personnel Royal Army Service Corps officers City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) officers Royal Armoured Corps officers Military personnel from London 14th/20th King's Hussars officers