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Joshua Grigby (c. 1731 – 26 December 1798) was a

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for Suffolk from 1784 to 1790. He was the son of Joshua Grigby, a solicitor, and Mary Tubby, and was educated at

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refound ...

. His grandfather, also Joshua Grigby, was

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of Gonvile Manor,

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.''The Gentleman's Magazine'', 99(Jan–Jun 1829):374.
/ref> His father was

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of Bury St Edmunds, and after gaining a law degree at

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, Joshua followed him in this role. Grigby married, in 1756, Jane Bird, daughter of Thomas Bird and Elizabeth Martyn of

Coventry Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...

.Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", ''The Genealogist'', 26(2012):58–76. He died on 26 December 1798, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Drinkstone.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grigby, Joshua 1798 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1784–1790 Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Year of birth uncertain English Unitarians