John Groves
Military Person
– 1859
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Who was John Groves?
Major John Richard Groves was the first Crown Equerry in the Royal Household, appointed in 1854.
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 Lieutenantcy 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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