John Groves (British Army officer)
Major John Richard Groves (died 1859) was the first Crown Equerry in the Royal Household, appointed in 1854.[1]
He died in office in 1859. Major Groves held the concurrent office of Superintendent of the Royal Mews.
Groves was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and purchased a second lieutenancy in the Rifle Brigade in 1825. He was a first lieutenant by 1829, when he was appointed adjutant, and purchased a captaincy in 1832. In 1853, having left the Regular Army, he was commissioned major in the Essex Rifles.
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[edit]- ^ The Annual Register: Or a View of the History, Politics and Literature, for the Year ... Dodsley. 1855. p. 387.
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