Joshua Grigby

Joshua Grigby (c. 1731 – 26 December 1798) was a Member of Parliament for Suffolk from 1784 to 1790.^[1]

Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough

He was the son of Joshua Grigby, a solicitor, and Mary Tubby,^[2] and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge.^[3] His grandfather, also Joshua Grigby, was lord of the manor of Gonvile Manor, Wymondham, Norfolk.^[4]

His father was town clerk of Bury St Edmunds, and after gaining a law degree at Cambridge University, Joshua followed him in this role.

Grigby married, in 1756, Jane Bird, daughter of Thomas Bird and Elizabeth Martyn of Coventry.^[5] He died on 26 December 1798, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Drinkstone.^[4]

References

1. Mary M. Drummond, "Grigby, Joshua (?1731–98), of Drinkstone, Suff.", The History of Parliament.
2. Augustine Page, A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller (Ipswich, 1844), 712–13.
3. John Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, 10 vols. (Cambridge, 1922–54), part 1, 2:268.
4. The Gentleman's Magazine, 99(Jan–Jun 1829):374.
5. Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", The Genealogist, 26(2012):58–76.