Alexander Grier

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Alexander Roy MacGregor Grier (usually known as Roy M. Grier;The Denstone Register, 1873 - 1930; pp. [iv] & 349 8 May 1877 - 1 February 1940) was an eminent Anglican priest and schoolmaster in the first half of the 20th century."Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment" Dewar, P.B (Ed): Stokesley, Burke's, 2001 {{ISBN|0-9711966-4-8}}

Born in 1877,"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London: A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} Grier was educated at Denstone College and the University of Oxford, where he read history. From university Grier became a schoolmaster at Worksop College in 1900 and was ordained in 1903. He became headmaster of Worksop in 1905 and carried out a large and expensive building programme, including the construction of a new chapel. Between 1915 and 1919 he was headmaster of Bloxham School, successfully guiding the school through the First World War.Old Bloxhamist Society, A History of Bloxham School (H. E. Boddy & Co. Ltd, Banbury, 1978), 83. He then became headmaster of his old school (1919–31) before becoming the Rural Dean of Switzerland in 1931.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1940 Obituaries Section Grier then worked as Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth from 1936"Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D .M: Edinburgh: T & T Clark {{ISBN|0-567-08746-8}} to 1940, when he died.The Times, Saturday, Feb 03, 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48530; col D Obituaries

His son Anthony MacGregor Grier was born on 12 April 1911.[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/abstract/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-164812 "Grier, Anthony MacGregor"], Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 26 September 2018.Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 2, p. 3702.