Gerald Grove
Sir Gerald Grove, 3rd Baronet (18 December 1886 – 3 March 1962) was a British military leader and filmmaker.[1] He was one of the Grove Baronets.[2]
Life and career
He was educated at Sherborne School in Sherborne, Dorset. Grove joined the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia in 1911 and served during World War I in the South-West Africa Campaign and East African Campaign and with the King's African Rifles, rising to rank of lieutenant.[3]
He was co-director of the 1929 film A Dangerous Woman and served in technical advisory roles in Tower of London, Christopher Strong, and the 1930 version of Raffles.
After holding several government positions, he succeeded to his title on 9 February 1932 and died unmarried 30 years later.[3]
References
- ↑ Desmond Hawkins (1995). The Grove diaries: the rise and fall of an English family, 1809-1925. University of Delaware Press, ISBN 978-0-87413-600-5
- ↑ Charles Mosley Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage., Volume 1. Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1937
- 1 2 Staff report (1962). Obituary. East Africa and Rhodesia, Volume 38. Africana, p. 695
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