Alexander Grier

Alexander Roy MacGregor Grier (usually known as Roy M. Grier;^[1] 8 May 1877 - 1 February 1940) was an eminent Anglican priest and schoolmaster in the first half of the 20th century.^[2]

Born in 1877,^[3] Grier was educated at Denstone College and the University of Oxford, where he read history. From university Grier became a schoolmaster at Worksop College in 1900 and was ordained in 1903. He became headmaster of Worksop in 1905 and carried out a large and expensive building programme, including the construction of a new chapel. Between 1915 and 1919 he was headmaster of Bloxham School, successfully guiding the school through the First World War.^[4] He then became headmaster of his old school (1919–31) before becoming the Rural Dean of Switzerland in 1931.^[5] Grier then worked as Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth from 1936^[6] to 1940, when he died.^[7]

His son Anthony MacGregor Grier was born on 12 April 1911.^[8][9]

1. ^ The Denstone Register, 1873 - 1930; pp. [iv] & 349
2. ^ "Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment" Dewar, P.B (Ed): Stokesley, Burke's, 2001 ISBN 0-9711966-4-8
3. ^ "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London: A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. ^ Old Bloxhamist Society, A History of Bloxham School (H. E. Boddy & Co. Ltd, Banbury, 1978), 83.
5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1940 Obituaries Section
6. ^ "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D .M: Edinburgh: T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
7. ^ The Times, Saturday, Feb 03, 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48530; col D Obituaries
8. ^ "Grier, Anthony MacGregor", Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 26 September 2018.
9. ^ Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 2, p. 3702.

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Preceded by Hubert Mitchell Rankin	Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth 1936 –1940	Succeeded by James Lumsden Barkway

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