Percy Grieve
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William Percival (Percy) Grieve, QC (25 March 1915 – 22 August 1998) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Grieve was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He became a barrister, called by Middle Temple in 1938, and a Queen's Counsel in 1962. He was assistant recorder of Leicester 1956-65 and became recorder of Northampton in 1965 and Deputy Chairman of Lincoln (Holland) Quarter Sessions in 1962.
Grieve contested the Lincoln by-election, 1962, where he lost heavily to Labour's Dick Taverne. At the 1964 general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Solihull, and re-elected until his retirement from Parliament at the 1983 general election.
His son Dominic Grieve was elected MP for Beaconsfield at the 1997 general election.
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- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and 1979
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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Member of Parliament for Solihull 1964–1983 |
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