{{short description|British politician (1864–1908)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Ronald Greville | honorific_suffix = MVO | image = Ronald Greville 1906 (cropped).jpg | office = Member of Parliament for Bradford East | term_start = 1896 | term_end = 1906 | predecessor = Henry Byron Reed | successor = William Priestley | birth_name = Ronald Henry Fulke Greville | birth_date = {{birth date|1864|10|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1908|04|05|1864|10|14|df=yes}} | death_place = | education = Rugby School | party = Conservative | parents = {{plainlist| * Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville * Lady Violet Graham }} | spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Anderson<br />|25 April 1891}} | children = | relations = Charles Greville, 3rd Baron Greville (brother) }} '''Ronald Henry Fulke Greville''', MVO (14 October 1864 – 5 April 1908)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{Rayment-hc|b|4|date=March 2012}}</ref> was an English Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford East from 1896 to 1906.
==Early life== Greville was born 14 October 1864 the eldest of four children of politician Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville (1841–1909) and the writer Lady Beatrice Violet Graham.<ref name="obit">{{Cite news |work=The Times |title=Captain The Hon. Ronald Greville |department=Obituaries |date=6 April 1908 |page=6 |issue=38613 }}</ref>
His paternal grandparents were Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville and his wife, Lady Rosa Nugent (the only daughter and heir of the George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons bearing Hereditary or Courtesy Titles, of Companions of the Orders of Knighthood and of the Indian Empire, and of all Collateral Branches of Peers and Baronets; Illustrated with 1400 Armorial Bearings.|last=Mair|first=Robert H.|publisher=Dean and Son|year=1884|location=London|pages=314}}</ref> His maternal grandparents were James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose and the former Hon. Caroline Agnes Horsley-Beresford (third daughter of John Horsley-Beresford, 2nd Baron Decies).<ref name="BaronGreville"/>
== Career == [[File:Margaret Greville photographed on 5 October 1900.jpg|thumb|Greville's wife, Margaret Greville, in 1900]] Greville was educated at Rugby School and entered the Army, at first in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and then the 1st Life Guards.<ref name="obit" /> Greville resigned his commission as a captain in 1896 when he was elected as a Member of Parliament.<ref name="obit" /><ref>Record of Service held at Household Cavalry Museum</ref>
===Political career=== Greville first stood for Parliament at the 1895 general election, as an unsuccessful candidate in the Liberal-held Barnsley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire.<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book|last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |orig-year=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |page=432}}</ref> After the death of Henry Byron Reed, the Conservative MP for the Eastern division of Bradford, Greville was selected as the Conservative candidate for the resulting by-election in November 1896. He won the contest, and was re-elected in 1900, holding the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1906 general election.<ref>Craig, op, cit, page 80</ref>
==Personal life== On 25 April 1891, he married Margaret Helen Anderson (1863–1942).<ref name="BaronGreville">{{cite web |title=Greville, Baron (UK, 1869–1987) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/greville1869.htm |website=cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=15 November 2019 |archive-date=15 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115193616/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/greville1869.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Margaret was the illegitimate daughter of William McEwan, a multimillionaire brewer (later elected as an MP for Edinburgh Central)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst229.html |title=Dr. William McEwan: Overview of Dr. William McEwan |website=Scottish-places.info |access-date=2016-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{ODNBweb |first=Ian |last=Donnachie |title=McEwan, William (1827–1913) |year=2004 |edition=online |id=50416 }}</ref> and his mistress, Helen Anderson, a cook who married McEwan after her first husband's death in 1885.<ref name="odnb">Davenport-Hines 2015.</ref> After their marriage, they lived at Polesden Lacey, in Great Bookham, Surrey, a gift from his wife's father.<ref name="BaronGreville"/>
On 5 April 1908, when Greville was 43, he died from pneumonia following an operation, predeceasing his own father and never acceding to the peerage.<ref name="obit" /> As Ronald had no children, after his father's death the following December 1909,<ref name="1909Ill">{{cite news |title=Lord Greville Very Ill: Honeymoon of his son, Capt. Greville, and his bride interrupted |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/11/30/101907405.pdf |work=New York Times |date=30 November 1909}}</ref> his younger brother Charles became the 3rd Baron Greville.<ref name="LordGreville1909">{{cite news |title=Lord Greville Dead: Must Not Break Manhole Covers or Interfere with Mall Tube Service |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/12/03/106122949.pdf |work=New York Times |date=3 December 1909}}</ref>
He was High Sheriff of Westmeath in 1899.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | hon-ronald-greville | Hon. Ronald Greville }} * {{NPG name|name=Hon. Ronald Henry Fulke Greville}}
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