| Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
| Coleridge Grove | |
| Birth Date: | 26 September 1839 |
| Birth Place: | Wandsworth, London |
| Death Place: | Knightsbridge, London |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Branch: | British Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1863–1901 |
| Rank: | Major-general |
| Battles: | Mahdist War |
| Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Major-General Sir Coleridge Grove (26 September 1839 – 17 May 1920) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.[1]
Grove was born in Wandsworth, the second son of Rt. Hon. Sir William Robert Grove, a Welsh judge and scientist, and Emma Maria Towles.[2] [3] He attended Balliol College, Oxford, as an Exhibitioner, where he took first classes in Mathematical Moderations and the final school.[1]
His sister Imogen Emily married William Edward Hall in 1866,[4] while his sister Anna married Herbert Augustus Hills (1837–1907) and was mother to Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills[5] and John Waller Hills.[6]
Grove was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1863. He went on to serve in Egypt and Sudan.[7] He became Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Ireland in 1882 and Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1883 moving on to be Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War in 1886 and Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters after that.
Appointed Military Secretary in 1896, he developed plans for universal military training in the British Army.[8] He retired in 1901.
In retirement, he was Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment from November 1901 to 1920.[9]
He had in his possessions a large Elizabethan chest[10] which was lost in a great fire in Brussels in 1910.[11] He died in 1920.[12]
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