The title Baron Grenfell was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1902. The third Baron, Julian Grenfell, was made a life peer as Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in 2000.
Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st BaronGrenfell, GCB, GCMG (April 29, 1841) - (January 27, 1925) was a British soldier.
In 1904, after commanding the 4th Army Corps, Sir Francis Grenfell was promoted General and created BaronGrenfell, of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.
Lord Grenfell died aged 83 at Windlesham, Surrey, and was buried at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
GRENFELL, FRANCIS WALLACE, first BARONGRENFELL, of Kilvey, Glamorganshire (1841-1925), field-marshal, the fourth son of Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, J.P. D.L., of Maesteg House, Swansea, Glamorganshire, by his first wife, Catherine Anne, daughter of James Du Pre, M.P., of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, was born at Maesteg House 29 April 1841.
Grenfell was then given an appointment on the head-quarters staff, and so took part in the final defeat of the Zulus at Ulundi on 4 July 1879.
Grenfell was the recipient of many honours: he was a colonel commandant of the 60th Rifles from 1899 until his death and colonel of the 2nd Life Guards from 1898 to 1907, when he exchanged this colonelcy for that of the 1st Life Guards.
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