| Biography of William Henry Grenfell (1178 words) |
 | GRENFELL, WILLIAM HENRY, BARON DESBOROUGH (1855-1945), athlete, sportsman, and public servant, was born in London 30 October 1855, the eldest son of Charles William Grenfell, M.P., of Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire, by his wife, Georgiana Caroline, daughter of William Saunders Sebright Lascelles, son of the second Earl of Harewood [q.v.]. |
| In 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Desborough, of Taplow, a title which he took from the old hundred of Desborough in Buckinghamshire. |
| To most of his countrymen Desborough's name was known as that of a man with an extraordinarily wide range of activities. |
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