Sir Thomas Fraser Grove, 1st Baronet (27 November 1823 – 14 January 1897) was an English Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1868 and 1892.

Grove was the son of John Grove of Ferne House

Ferne House

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, near Salisbury and his wife Jean Fraser, daughter of Sir William Fraser, 3rd Baronet. He was captain in the 6th Dragoons and a Deputy Lieutenant

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 and J.P.

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 for Wiltshire

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. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire

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 in 1863 and a Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel of the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

Grove was elected at the 1865 general election

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 as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for South Wiltshire

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, and was re-elected in 1868

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. After his defeat at the 1874 general election

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 he did not stand again until after the 1885 redistribution of seats

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. He was made a baronet

Grove Baronets

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 on 18 March 1874, of Ferne, Wiltshire,

At the 1885 general election

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 Grove was elected MP for Wilton

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. When the Liberal Party split in 1886 over Irish Home Rule, he joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party

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 which opposed Home Rule. He was re-elected unopposed at the 1886 general election

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, but at the 1892 general election

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 he lost his seat to the Conservative Party

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 candidate, Viscount Folkestone

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor

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.

Grove was elected unopposed to Wiltshire County Council

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in 1889.

Grove died at the age of 73. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Walter.

Grove married Grace Catherine O'Grady, daughter of the Hon. Waller O'Grady, Q.C, in 1847. After her death in 1879, he married Frances Hinton Barnewall, daughter of Henry Northcote and widow of the Hon. Frederick Barnewall.