William Chaffin Grove

William Chaffin (Chafin or Chafyn) Grove (c. 1731–1793) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1781.

He was educated at Sutton and was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 30 April 1750, aged 18.

[1] Grove was returned as Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in the 1768 general election after a contest.

The English Chronicle wrote of him in 1780: "An invariable and inveterate advocate for Administration, but not distinguished in any particular degree for any other quality either good or bad".

He was returned again for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the general election of 1780 but resigned his seat in April 1781.