1st Battalion 3rd Foot Guards Sub-District, Southern District North-West District Midland District Eastern District Windward and Leeward Islands
Battles/wars
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Guilford Court House
Siege of Yorktown (POW)
French Revolutionary Wars
Flanders Campaign
Siege of Valenciennes
Battle of Lincelles
Napoleonic Wars
West Indies Campaign
General William Grinfield (c.1743–19 October 1803) was a British Army officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Grinfield joined the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards in 1760 and was promoted through the ranks, becoming a major in the regiment in 1786. In 1793 his regiment joined the Flanders Campaign, fighting at the siege of Valenciennes and Battle of Lincelles, during which time he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. Having held a higher army-wide rank than he did regimental rank, Grinfield was promoted by seniority to major-general later in the same year.
Grinfield continued with the 3rd Guards until 1795 when he was given a command within the Southern Military District, also becoming colonel of the 86th Regiment of Foot. He went on to command the North-West Military District before in 1798 being promoted to lieutenant-general, and in 1801 receiving command of the Midland Military District. In the following year he was made Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands. In this role he attacked French and Dutch colonies at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803, capturing Saint Lucia, Tobago, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice. Promoted to general on 1 October of the same year, he died of yellow fever at Barbados only eighteen days later, aged 58.
General WilliamGrinfield (c.1743–19 October 1803) was a British Army officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Grinfield joined...
Edward WilliamGrinfield (1785–1864) was an English biblical scholar. He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham...
Grinfield was the son of Thomas Grinfield of Bristol and Anna Joanna Barham, and the brother of Edward WilliamGrinfield. He was born at Bath in 1788, and...
Stevens 1791–1793: Maj. Gen. Gustavus Guydickens 1793–1795: Maj. Gen. WilliamGrinfield 1795–1802: Lt. Gen. Cavendish Lister 1802–1806: Lt. Gen. Napier Christie...
possession in 1802 with the Treaty of Amiens, but Lieutenant-General WilliamGrinfield defeated French Governor Brig. Gen. Antoine Noguès in June 1803, and...
revolutionary armies of the new republic of France, and Stadtholder Prince William V of Orange became a refugee in England. A British force under General...
Haythornthwaite (1996), p. 34. Houlding (2008). Thorne, R. G. "MACLEAN CLEPHANE, William Douglas (1759-1803), of Kirkness, Kinross". The History of Parliament....
speculative philosophy in England". Copleston was seen by Edward WilliamGrinfield in 1821 as undermining the orthodox Anglicanism of Joseph Butler's...
fighting. On 16 September a British force under Lieutenant-General WilliamGrinfield arrived at Georgetown and offered terms of surrender to the colonies...
p. 1. Hayden 1851, p. 319. Houlding, J. A. (January 2008). "Haviland, William (1718–1784)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford...
573. Norie, John William (1827). The naval gazetteer, biographer, and chronologist. pp. 22, 394. trigge Santa Croix. Jackson, Sir William G. F (1990). The...
Rothley. Anna Joanna, who married Thomas Grinfield and was mother of Edward WilliamGrinfield and Thomas Grinfield. The sons were tutored by Aulay Macaulay...
Oxford as Regius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church. He was Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint, 1939–43, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop...
(c.1748–1790), born in Shirland, wife of Joseph Wright of Derby Thomas Grinfield (1788 –1870), English clergyman and hymn-writer, rector of St Leonards...
Low Hill, Hall Lane, Mount Vernon Green, Irvine Street, Mason Street, Grinfield Street, Crown Street, Upper Parliament Street, St James Place, Stanhope...
was Select Preacher before the University of Oxford in 1876 and 1888, Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint 1876–78, and Bampton Lecturer in 1881. From...
manuscripts at Lincoln College, and with a memoir, preface, and notes, by E. W. Grinfield, came out in 1840. This series of discourses embodied a new system of...
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