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Rh Algernon Grenfell, the second of three brothers, house master at Rugby under Arnold, and a fine classical scholar, whose elder and younger brothers each felt the ancestral call of the sea and became admirals, with brave records of daring and success.

Dr. Grenfell’s father, after a brilliant career at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, became assistant master at Repton, and later, when he married, head master of Mostyn House School, a position which he resigned in 1882 to become Chaplain of the London Hospital. “He was a man of much learning, with a keen interest in science, a remarkable eloquence, and a fervent evangelistic faith.”

Mostyn House School still stands, enlarged and modernized, in the Rh