Charles Frederick Grieve (1 October 1913 in Manila, Philippines – 1 June 2000 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He was also a notable cricketer for Guernsey and Oxford University. He was born in Manila in the Philippines and was educated at Ampleforth College in England.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played club rugby with Oxford University. In the first trial match his team was listed as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.

Provincial career

He was supposed to play for the

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in the first trial match of season 1937-38. The match due on 18 December 1937 was called off due to frost despite the contingency of straw being placed on The Greenyards pitch at Melrose. He did however turn out for the

side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938.

International career

Grieve was capped for against Wales in 1935. Grieve was also on the

1938 British Lions tour to South Africa The 1938 British Isles tour to South Africa was the fourteenth tour by a British Isles team and the sixth to South Africa. The tour is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted unt ...

Cricket career

Grieve was a right-handed batsman. He represented Ampleforth on the 1st XI. Later progressing to Oxford University, he represented the university cricket club in a single first-class match against Derbyshire in 1936. In this match he scored 6 runs in the university's first-innings before being dismissed by George Pope and in their second-innings he 2 runs before being dismissed by Tommy Mitchell. In 1934, he had played his only match for

Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...

against the Marylebone Cricket Club in what was a non first-class fixture. Opening the batting in Guernsey's first-innings, he scored a

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and in their second he scored 6 runs.

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