Norman Percy Grubb MC (2 August 1895 – 15 December 1993) was a British Christian missionary and Evangelist, writer, and theological teacher.
[3] Norman Grubb was educated at Marlborough College, an English Public School[4] before joining the British Army as a lieutenant in World War I.
[8][9] Later he married Pauline Studd, the daughter of the famous British cricketer and missionary to Africa C.T.
[10] He left for the Belgian Congo with Pauline in 1920 to follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law, having not yet completed his final term at Cambridge.
[12] It was a conversation with a family friend that challenged him to think more deeply about his faith, and from that point on he became committed to evangelistic work.
While recovering from his bullet wound in 1917 Grubb was handed a tract about the Heart of Africa Mission and the work of C.T.
[18] Fortunately the two were reconciled to one another when Pauline came to accept Grubb's dedication to serving his God, even though it meant that she would have to take second place in her husband's life.
Studd's death in 1931 Norman and Pauline returned to England, where they ran the mission from its London headquarters.
In the book Samuel Rees Howells: A Life of Intercession, Norman explains what happened when C.T.
[24] After Studd's death in 1931, it was learned that he had left a letter appointing Grubb as president of the ministry he had founded, World Evangelisation Crusade (W.E.C., WEC International), in place of himself.
Upon retiring from the position of International Secretary for WEC in 1965,[9] he travelled, mostly around England and the United States, preaching Paul's "mystery of the gospel, which is Christ in you" in churches and conferences and to anyone who would listen.
Grubb married Pauline Studd and they had four children, Noel, Paul, Priscilla and Daniel.