Sir Bevil Grenville

(1596-1643)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Grenville [Grenvile], Sir Bevil [Bevill] (1596-1643), royalist army officer LBT ID: BeGrenv1643	B/BAP: 1596-03-23 DIED: 1643-07-05
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com
Royalist army officer who fought against the Scots in 1639, defeated a Parliamentary force at the battle of Braddock Down, and was killed leading a charge up Lansdowne Hill in 1643.
REFERENCES TO Sir Bevil Grenville: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 113