GRIEVE, Alan Thomas CBE 1928-2025

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From the Times of 16 May 2025: GRIEVE Alan Thomas CBE died peacefully at home on 14^th May 2025, aged 97. Very much loved by all his family. Private family funeral. A memorial service will be held in the Autumn.

He was s of Lewis Miller GRIEVE 1896-1963 of Stanmore, Middx by his 1924 m reg Q2 London to Doris Lilian AMNER 1901-75. He m 1^st 1957 (div 1971) Anne 1930-2016 d of Lawrence DULAKE 1901-97 of Reigate, Surrey by his 7 Oct 1926 m (St Saviour, Hampstead) to Nina Lettice Dix 1898-1987 d of the Scottish portrait artist Charles Kay ROBERTSON 1860-1939 and Jane Falconer WALTERS 1859-1941, and had two sons and a dau (Amanda Jane, former w of 6^th Baron Harlech 1954-2016). He m 2^nd 1971 Karen Louise b 1945 d of Lt-Cdr William Edward Michael de Sirvac DUNN RNVR 1914-2000 sometime head of that gentry family f/o Titcomb Manor &c and Patience Louise 1922-2003 d of Sir Strati RALLI 2^nd Bt MC 1876-1964 and Louise Warington 1890-1982 d of Bernard James WILLIAMS 1857-97 and Emily Hasted WARINGTON 1857-1935, and had a further son and dau.

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Obituary in the Daily Telegraph 17 June 2025 -  Alan Grieve, ‘entrepreneur philanthropist’ who set up the Jerwood Foundation for the arts – obituary

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Alan Grieve, ‘entrepreneur philanthropist’ who set up the Jerwood Foundation to finance arts causes

John Jerwood had made his fortune in Japan’s cultured-pearl industry and Grieve created and ran the foundation on his behalf

Alan Grieve, who has died aged 97, was a solicitor who in 1977 established the philanthropic Jerwood Foundation for John Jerwood, and ran it as chairman after his client’s death in 1991, transforming it from a little-known foundation making donations mainly in the fields of music and education, to a ubiquitous force in the arts world; he described himself as an “entrepreneur philanthropist”[…..]

Alan Thomas Grieve was born in London on January 22 1928 to Lewis Grieve and Doris, née Amner, and educated at Aldenham School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read law. During National Service he was commissioned in 1949 in the Royal Armoured Corps (14th/20th King’s Hussars) and thereafter served in the TA in the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders).

After a few years as an assistant solicitor at the City law firm Slaughter and May, in 1958 he joined Taylor & Humbert, becoming senior partner in 1980. He then oversaw the firm’s merger with Parker Garrett and remained senior partner in the merged firm Taylor Garrett until 1989, when it merged again with Joynson Hicks to become Taylor Joynson Garrett (now Taylor Wessing), of which he became a consultant.

Grieve was appointed CBE in 2003.

In 1957 Alan Grieve married Anne Dulake, with whom he had two sons and a daughter, Amanda Harlech. The marriage was dissolved, and in 1971 he married Karen de Sivrac Dunn, with whom he had a son and daughter.

Alan Grieve, born January 22 1928, died May 14 2025