Anthony MacGregor Grier

Anthony MacGregor Grier, CMG (12 April 1911 – 22 December 1989) was a British colonial administrator, civil servant and soldier who was general manager of the Redditch Development Corporation (1964–76).

[1][2] He attended St Edward's School in Oxford, and Exeter College, Oxford, and served in the West African Frontier Force and the Sierra Leone Regiment before entering the Colonial Administrative Service in Sierra Leone in 1935.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1964 to be general manager of the Redditch Development Corporation, serving until 1976; the year after he left that post, he was elected to Hereford and Worcester County Council for the Conservatives.

He left public office in 1985 and died on 22 December 1989, leaving a widow (Patricia, daughter of Lord Spens) and three children.

[1][3] During his time in Redditch, he managed its development into a New Town accommodating over 100,000 people, mostly "overspill" from Birmingham.