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, was

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between 1881 and 1883.

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, was his first cousin. He was educated at

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and

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, where he was secretary of the

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. On graduation, he immediately entered a career in banking with a position in Brown Shipley, and subsequently with Smith Ellison, moving to J. S. Morgan & Co. in 1900. In 1904, Grenfell became a partner in the bank and in 1910, when

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restructured his London bank, it was renamed Morgan, Grenfell & Co. to reflect his position as senior partner. He was a director of the

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from 1905 to 1940. Grenfell married Florence Emily Henderson in 1913. In May 1922, he was elected a Unionist Member of Parliament for the

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in a

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and held the seat until 1935, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron St Just, of

St Just in Penwith St Just (), also known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives to the A3 ...

in the County of Cornwall. This led to the 1935 City of London by-election, at which there was no contest. Lord St Just died on 26 November 1941, aged 71, and was succeeded in the barony by his only child Peter George Grenfell (1922–1984).

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at ''Grenfell Family History Site'' * *

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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the City of London Barons created by George V