Frederick Brent Grotrian

F. B. Grotrian
Born	1838 (1838)[1]
Died	(1905-04-08)8 April 1905[1]

Frederick Brent Grotrian (1838–1905) was an English Conservative Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East constituency (1886–1892).^[1]

Early life

Frederick Brent Grotrian was son of Frederick Ludwig Christian Grotrian, of London and Brighton, East Sussex, who had been a certificated master in the Merchant Navy,^[2][3] and Amelia, daughter of Samuel Brent, of London and Horndean, Hampshire.^[4]

Career

Grotrian was founder of the Hull Daily Mail (1889),^[5] member of the Hull Chamber of Commerce,^[6] and one of the founders of the Drypool and Marfleet Steam Tramways Company.^[7]

Personal life

In 1862 Grotian married Elizabeth (died 1930), daughter of John Hunter, of Felixkirk, formerly of Cawton, Gilling East, North Yorkshire, yeoman, one of the three principal landowners at Cawton (this "small village and township" comprising 1,020 acres and home to 89 people in 1840) along with the Tindall and Shepherd families;^[8][9] one of their eight children, second of four sons, was Sir Herbert Brent Grotrian. Grotrian lived at Ingmanthorpe Hall, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, having previously lived at West Hill House, Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire.^[10]

References

1. "Papers of Frederick Brent Grotrian and Sir Herbert Brent Grotrian (U DX82)" (PDF). Hull History Centre. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
2. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1688
3. The Mercantile Navy List 1848, ed. J. H. Brown, Bradbury & Evans, 1861, p. 52
4. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, sixty-second issue, Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd, Whittaker & Co., 1888, p. 242
5. Alan J. Lee (1976). "4 The Old Journalism and the New". The origins of the popular press in England, 1855-1914. Taylor & Francis. p. 103. ISBN 9780874718560.
6. Clement Edwards. "V The Killing of Canal Competition". Railway Nationalization. Taylor & Francis. p. 48.
7. "5 The Drypool and Marfleet Steam Tramways Company". Hull Trams : The Early Years. Kingston upon Hull City Museum. 1977.
8. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, sixty-second issue, Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd, Whittaker & Co., 1888, p. 242
9. History, gazetteer and directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, William White, Robert Leader (Sheffield), 1840, p. 427
10. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1688

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Frederick Brent Grotrian

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Saunders	Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East 1886–1892	Succeeded by Clarence Smith