Edward Grimston (St Albans MP)

The Honourable Edward Harbottle Grimston (born 2 April 1812 at Mayfair, London; died 4 May 1881 at Pebmarsh, Essex) was an English amateur cricketer and a Conservative Party politician who held a seat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1841.

[4][5] He was re-elected in 1837,[6] but resigned his seat in 1841[5] by the procedural device of appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

[7] After resigning his parliamentary seat, Grimston took holy orders and was rector of Pebmarsh (a parish of which his father was patron) from 1841 until his death in 1881.

Three of his brothers James, Robert and Francis all played first-class cricket, as did his son Walter and his nephew Lord Hyde.

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