Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Grove, Sir William Robert
Grove, Sir William Robert, o.s. John of St. Mary, Swansea, co. Glamorgan, arm. Brasenose Coll., matric. 6 Feb., 1829, aged 17; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, created D.C.L. 9 June, 1875, a judge of Common Pleas 1871-5, a justice of High Court of Justice (C.P.) 1875-8, and of Queen's Bench division, since 1879, knighted 21 Feb., 1872, On Oxford University commission, created LL.D Cambridge 1879, president British Association 1866, royal medallist 1847, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1835, Q.C. 1853. See Foster's Men at the Bar.