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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
the capture. Nor has the strain died out, as is demonstrated in the present generation by many of Dr.Grenfell’s cousins, among them General Francis Wallace Grenfell, Lord Kilvey, and by Dr. Grenfell himself on the Labrador in the fight against disease and disaster and distress along a stormy and uncharted coast.
On his mother’s side, four of her brothers were generals or colonels in the trying times of service in India. The eldest fought with distinction throughout the Indian Mutiny and in the defence of Lucknow, and another commanded the crack cavalry regiment, the “Guides,” at Peshawar, and fell fighting in one of the turbulent North of India wars.
Of teachers, there was Dr. Grenfell’s paternal grandfather, the Rev.
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