Joshua Grigby

Joshua Grigby (c. 1731 – 26 December 1798) was a Member of Parliament for Suffolk from 1784 to 1790.[1]

He was the son of Joshua Grigby, a solicitor, and Mary Tubby,[2] and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge.[3]

Grigby married, in 1756, Jane Bird, daughter of Thomas Bird and Elizabeth Martyn of Coventry.[4] He died on 26 December 1798, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Drinkstone.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Mary M. Drummond, "Grigby, Joshua (?1731-98), of Drinkstone, Suff.", The History of Parliament.
  2. ↑ Augustine Page, A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller (Ipswich, 1844), 712-13.
  3. ↑ John Venn and J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, 10 vols. (Cambridge, 1922-54), part 1, 2:268.
  4. ↑ Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", The Genealogist, 26(2012):58-76.
  5. ↑ The Gentleman’s Magazine, 99(Jan-Jun 1829):374.
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