Cecil Grenfell

Colonel Cecil Alfred Grenfell (13 February 1864 – 11 August 1924), was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician who was MP for Bodmin between the two general elections of 1910.

Lieutenant Robert Septimus Grenfell died in a cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and his two youngest brothers (twins) were both killed in the First World War.

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in South Africa, he was in February 1900 seconded for active service with the Imperial Yeomanry,[4] where he was on 3 February 1900 commissioned a lieutenant with the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Army.

Grenfell was selected as Liberal candidate for the Rochester division of Kent for the 1895 General Election.

He was selected as Liberal candidate for the Bodmin division of Cornwall for the January 1910 General Election.