Alexander Grier

The Very Reverend Alexander Roy MacGregor Grier (8 May 1877 - 1 February 1940) was an eminent Anglican priest and schoolmaster in the first half of the 20th century.^[1]

Born in 1877,^[2] Grier was educated at Denstone College and the University of Oxford, where he read history. From university Grier became a schoolmaster at Worksop College in 1900 and was ordained in 1903. He became headmaster of Worksop in 1905 and carried out a large and expensive building programme, including the construction of a new chapel. Between 1915 and 1919 he was headmaster of Bloxham School, successfully guiding the school through the First World War.^[3] He then became headmaster of his old school before becoming the Rural Dean of Switzerland in 1931.^[4] Grier then worked as Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth from 1936^[5] to 1940, when he died.^[6]

References

1. “Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment” Dewar,P.B (Ed): Stokesley, Burke’s, 2001 ISBN 0-9711966-4-8
2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
3. Old Bloxhamist Society, A History of Bloxham School (H.E. Boddy & Co. Ltd, Banbury, 1978), 83.
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1940 Obituaries Section
5. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
6. The Times, Saturday, Feb 03, 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48530; col D Obituaries