St. John's, ed. Mayor, i. 284), and probably at the end of 1546 was summoned to court at Cheke's recommendation to act as tutor to the Lady Elizabeth. Cheke had gone as tutor to Prince Edward in 1544 and had taken part in Elizabeth's education as well; but in December 1546 the children were separated and Elizabeth was sent to Enfield. It was probably at this time that Grindal entered upon his duties, and it says much for his power as a teacher if he managed to teach Elizabeth anything during the time when in her fifteenth year she was beginning her career as a coquette under the guidance of Lord Thomas Seymour. However, before the scandal of this intrigue became notorious Grindal died of the plague in the summer of 1548, and was succeeded by his friend Ascham in his post as Elizabeth's tutor.
[Besides the Letters of Ascham referred to above, ii. 19, 20 are written to Grindal, and 21 to Elizabeth about him. Their contents have been summarised by Strype, Life of Grindal, p. 4; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 94.]
GRINFIELD, EDWARD WILLIAM
(1785–1864), biblical scholar, was the son of
Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter
of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and
brother of Thomas Grinfield [q. v.] He was
born in 1785, and was a schoolfellow of
Thomas de Quincey [q. v.] at Winkfield,
Wiltshire. He entered Lincoln College,
Oxford, proceeded B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, and
was ordained in the same year by the Bishop
of Lincoln. After studying in the Temple
he became minister of Laura Chapel, Bath;
afterwards he removed to London, where he
occasionally preached at Kensington, and
wrote many pamphlets, articles, and reviews,
all favouring extreme orthodoxy. In 1859
he founded and endowed a lectureship at
Oxford on the Septuagint. Grinfield died at
Brighton on 9 July 1864, and is buried in
Hove churchyard. His works are: 1.
‘Reflections on the Connection of the British
Government with the Protestant Religion,’
1807. 2. ‘The Crisis of Religion,’ 1811, and
with ‘Strictures on Mr. Lancaster's System
of Popular Education,’ 1812. 3. ‘Reflections
upon the Influence of Infidelity and
Profaneness on Public Liberty, with a Plan for
National Circulating Libraries,’ 1817. 4.
‘Connection of Natural and Revealed Theology,’
1818. 5. ‘Cursory Observations upon the
Lectures in Physiology, Zoology, and Natural
History of Man, by Mr. Laurence,’ 2nd edition,
1819. 6. ‘Sermons on the Parables,’ 1819. 7. ‘The Researches of Physiology,’ 1820. 8. ‘Thoughts on Lord Brougham's Education Bill,’ 1821. 9. ‘Vindiciæ Anglicanæ, Letter to Dr. Copleston on his Inquiry into the
Doctrine of Necessity and Predestination,
with a second part,’ 1822. 10. ‘Sermon on
Paley's Exposition of the Law of Honour,’
1824. 11. ‘The Doctrinal Harmony of the
New Testament,’ 1824. 12. ‘A Reply to Mr.
Brougham's Practical Observations upon the
Education of the People,’ 1825. 13. ‘The
Nature and Extent of the Christian
Dispensation with reference to the
Salvability of the Heathen,’ 1827. 14. ‘A
Scriptural Inquiry into the Nature and
Import of the Image and Likeness of God in
Man,’ 1830. 15. ‘Sketches of the Danish
Mission on the Coast of Coromandel,’ 1831.
16. ‘Christian Sentiments suggested by the
Present Crisis; or, Civil Liberty founded
upon Self-Restraint,’ 1831. 17. ‘Reflections
after a Visit to the University of Oxford,’
on the proceedings against R. D. Hampden
[q. v.], 1836. 18. ‘The Chart and Scale
of Truth,’ 1840. 19. ‘Novum Testamentum
Græcum. Editio Hellenistica,’ 1843. 20.
‘Scholia Hellenistica in Novum Testamentum,’
&c., 1848. 21. ‘An Expostulatory Letter
to the Right Rev. Bishop Wiseman on the
Interpolated Curse in the Vatican Septuagint,’
1850. 22. ‘An Apology for the Septuagint,’
1850. 23. ‘The Jesuits: an Historical Sketch,’
1851, 1853. 24. ‘The Christian Cosmos: the Son
of God the revealed Creator,’ 1856.
[Hist. of Preaching, ed. R. Eden, 1880; Page's De Quincey, i. 43, ii. 305, 343; Walford's Men of the Time, 1862, 5th edition; Letters from C. V. Grinfield (his nephew) and H. Coxwell (his son-in-law); Brit. Mus. Cat.; various newspaper cuttings.]
GRINFIELD, THOMAS (1788–1870), divine and hymn-writer, son of Thomas Grinfield and brother of Edward William
Grinfield [q. v.], was born at Bath in 1788, and educated at Wingfield, near Trowbridge, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1811. He was ordained
1813. He married his first cousin, Mildred
Foster Barham; became curate at St. Sidwell's,
Exeter; then rector of Shirland, Derbyshire; he
subsequently resided at Clifton, and was for
twenty-three years curate in charge of St.
Mary-le-Port, Bristol. He died at Clifton on
8 April 1870, and was buried in the cemetery at
Weston-super-Mare. Though he published little,
his compositions were numerous, especially his
sermons. Studious and contemplative, he mingled
little with society. He was an accomplished
scholar and poet. His works are: ‘Epistles
and Miscellaneous Poems’(1815), ‘The Omnipotence
of God, with other Sacred Poems’ (1824),
‘The Visions of Patmos’ (1827), ‘A Century
of Original Sacred Songs,’ 'Sacred Poems,’
