Frank St Clair Grimwood

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Reference WMO/64536

Address:

Merton College Chapel

Merton Street

Oxford

OX1 4JD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Colonial India
About the memorial: The small state of Manipur in north-eastern India, southeast of Assam, was a quasi-independent British protectorate ruled from 1834 by Chandra Kirti Singh (1832-1866). On his death his sons and other relatives formed numerous parties, each contending for the throne. In the midst of general unrest, on 24 March 1891 Frank St Clair Grimwood, the British political agent, and other resident British officials were murdered, and the residency in Manipur was attacked. The small surviving band of loyal sepoys was led to safety in India by Grimwood's wife, Ethel. The British sent troops into the country and, after several encounters with the 3,000-man Manipuri army, finally restored order. The offending princes were hanged or transported to the Andaman Islands. Mrs Grimwood was awarded the Royal Red Cross.
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Frank St Clair Grimwood
Sometime Postmaster of Merton College
born 18 Jan 1854
died a soldier's death
at the Manipur Residency
24 March 1891
Whilst doing high political duty
righteously and fearlessly
on the frontier of the Indian Empire

Remembered with love and admiration
by his Oxford friends

Frank St Clair Grimwood

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