Henry Grieve

Henry Grieve FRSE (1736 – 10 February 1810) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1783.

[2] He was also one of the Deans in the Chapel Royal in Edinburgh and Chaplain in Ordinary to King George IV.

He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Dunbar in 1759 but did not find a post until 1762 when he was ordained at Twynholm in south-west Scotland but stayed only six months before being translated to Eaglesham before settling in Dalkeith in 1765 as parish minister (living in Dalkeith manse).

[4] In 1783 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly and was made Chaplain in Ordinary to the King in 1784.

In 1789 he moved from the church at Dalkeith to New Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, in replacement of the Rev William Martin.