Henry Montague Grover (1791–1866) was an English lawyer, cleric and writer.

Life

Born at

Watford Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne. Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, a ...

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, he was the eldest son of Harry Grover, solicitor, of

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, by Sybilla, daughter of George Phillip Ehret. He was educated at St. Albans grammar school. By 1816 he had established himself in practice as a solicitor in London. Grover retired from business in 1824, and went to

Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Today, Peterhouse has 254 undergraduates, 116 full-time graduate students and 54 fellows. It is quite ...

, where he graduated LL.B. in 1830. Having taken holy orders he was presented in 1833 to the rectory of Hitcham,

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

. Because of disabling illness, he lived in seclusion. He died at Hitcham on 20 August 1866. John William Grover was his son.

Works

Grover's works were: * ''Anne Boleyn, a tragedy'' (in five acts and in verse), London, 1826. * ''Socrates, a dramatic poem'' (in five acts, with notes), London, 1828. * ''The History of the Resurrection authenticated. A Review of the Four Gospels on the Resurrection'', London, 1841. * ''Analogy and Prophecy, Keys of the Church. Shewing the progress of the Dispensation and the Interpretation of the Prophecies by analogies derived from the Mosaic Creation'', London, 1846. * ''A Voice from Stonehenge'', pt. i., London, 1847. * ''Changes of the Poles and the Equator, considered as a source of error in the present construction of the maps and charts of the globe'', London, 1848. * ''A Catechism for Sophs'' (a "summary of scriptural doctrine"), London, 1848. * ''Soundings of Antiquity: a new method of applying the astronomical evidences to the events of history, and an assignment of true dates to the epochs of the Church'', London, 1862. Grover wrote also a political pamphlet ''Corn and Cattle against Cotton and Calico'', articles in the ''Journal of Sacred Literature'', and papers on the "Theory of the Sun's Orbit" and on "Tides".

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Grover, Henry Montague 1791 births 1866 deaths English solicitors 19th-century English Anglican priests English theologians People from Watford English male non-fiction writers 19th-century English lawyers