Grove says in his account of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (p. 21), that his parents lived in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, where the family had resided above a century and a half, and that his mother, who had been married to his father above fifty-three years, died on 22 Jan. 1739, aged 73, and his father on 22 March 1740, aged 83.
He is therefore identified as the son of Theophilus Groves and his wife Sarah (formerly Stone), baptised at Chipping Norton in 1699.
When in town he lodged in the parish of St. Clement Danes, at the house of a Mrs. Mary Parr, to whom he left an annuity of £14 and all his effects in her possession.
There he died on 27 March 1764,[2] and was buried in Richmond Church on 2 April following (Lysons, Environs, iv.
Administration of his estate, with will annexed, was granted at London on 30 March 1764 to Groves Wheeler, his nephew and residuary legatee (registered in P.C.C.