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- Harman Joseph Gerard GRISEWOOD CBE (1906-1997), head of that gentry family formerly of Daylesford, now of Field House, Widford, Ware, Herts, Ch Assist to Dir-Gen, B.B.C. 1955-64 (ret), B.B.C. Repertory Co 1929-33, Announcer 1933-36, Assist to Programme Organiser 1936-39, Assist Dir Programme Planning 1939-41, Assist Controller, European Div 1945-46, Dir of Talks 1946-47, Planner, Third Programme 1947-48, Controller of B.B.C. Third Programme 1948-52, Dir of Spoken Word, B.B.C. 1952-55, Vice-Pres European Broadcasting Union 1953-54, has King Christian X Freedom Medal (1946), memb Hon Soc of Cymmrodorion (1956), Kt of Magistral Grace, Sovereign and Military Order of Malta (1960), author of Broadcasting and Soc (1949), The Recess (1963), The Last Cab on the Rank (1964), David Jones: Welsh National Lecture (1966), and One Thing at a Time (1968). He m 1940 Margaret Clotilde, 3rd dau of Kenneth Herbert BAILEY of Cumberstone, Tittensor, Staffs and had an only dau:
1a Sabina Margaret Anne; born 28 Sept 1947 educated St Mary's Convent, Ascot. m 1972 (div 1977) Ronald Hugh yst s of Miles BEEVOR (1900-94, scion of the BEEVOR Bts) and his 2nd w Sybil (d 1991, dau of Lt-Col John Babington GILLIAT DSO of The Manor House, Welwyn, Herts).
No issue by this marriage and no other marriage recorded for the 1st Mrs Ronald Beevor on Ancestry.
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