He compiled four centuries, 115 and 129* against Cambridge University, 122* against Derbyshire and 114 against Nottinghamshire.
One of seven children and the son of a gamekeeper, he learned his early cricket with Farsley United C.C.
From 1885 to at least 1891 he was employed at, and probably landlord of, the New Inn, Farsley but, like many professionals of his era, he fell upon hard times in his later years and died in poverty stricken circumstances.
Grimshaw died in Farsley on 18 January 1911, and was buried at Calverley in Leeds.
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