Walter B. Grieve Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Honourable
Walter Baine Grieve
Office1:Member of the House of Assembly for Bonavista Bay
Term Start1:1882
Term End1:1883
Monarch1:Queen Victoria
Office2:Member of the House of Assembly for Trinity Bay
Term Start2:1885
Term End2:1889
Monarch2:Queen Victoria
Birth Date:19 April 1850
Birth Place:St. John's, Newfoundland
Death Place:St. John's, Newfoundland
Nationality:Newfoundlander
Spouse:Ellen Marion Stone (1856-1886)

Walter Baine Grieve (April 19, 1850  - February 3, 1921) was a merchant and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Bonavista Bay from 1882 to 1883 and Trinity Bay from 1885 to 1889 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.

He was born in St. John's, the son of James Johnston Grieve.[1] In 1872, he became manager of Baine Johnstons, a fishery supply firm also involved in the seal fishery. On April 6, 1880 in Gateshead, England he married Ellen Marion Stone.[2] His election to the assembly in 1882 was declared void in the following year. Grieve served as a member of the Legislative Council in 1894 and from 1919 to 1921. He became a director of the Union Bank in 1894. In 1918, he was named to the Order of the British Empire. Grieve died in St. John's at the age of 70.

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  1. Book: Ryan, Shannon . The ice hunters: a history of Newfoundland sealing to 1914 . 145 . 1994 . 1-55081-097-9 . Breakwater Books . 2009-10-21.
  2. Book: Crosbie . Gertrude . Index of Birth, Marriage & Death Notices from Newspapers, 1810-1890 . Maritime History Archive . St. John's, NL.