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  • Charles Beresford Fulke Greville, 3rd Baron Greville
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  • Charles Beresford Fulke Greville (3 March 1871 - 14 May 1952), known as Baron Greville of Clonyn from 1909. The second son of Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville and Lady Beatrice Violet née Graham. Following the death of his older brother, the Hon. Ronald Henry Fulke Greville, in April 1908 he became heir to his father's title. He succeeded in December 1909. In February 1912 he was elected to fill a casual vacancy on the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Marylebone West. He resigned the seat in May 1916.
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  • Charles Beresford Fulke Greville (3 March 1871 - 14 May 1952), known as Baron Greville of Clonyn from 1909. The second son of Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville and Lady Beatrice Violet née Graham. Following the death of his older brother, the Hon. Ronald Henry Fulke Greville, in April 1908 he became heir to his father's title. He succeeded in December 1909. Greville pursued a military career, reaching the rank of captain in the 7th Hussars retiring in 1905. He held posts as aide de campe to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1895-93 and to the Governor of Bombay 1900-04, and was Military Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia from 1904-08. During the First World War he held a commission as a major in the Lovat Scouts, a Territorial mounted unit. In February 1912 he was elected to fill a casual vacancy on the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Marylebone West. He resigned the seat in May 1916. He was chairman of the board of St George's Hospital from 1914–44 and was awarded the OBE in 1919. He married Olive Grace in 1909. He died suddenly in 1952 aged 81 and their son, Ronald Charles Fulke Greville, born in 1912, succeeded him as 4th (and last) Baron Greville. He was buried at St Marylebone Cemetery, East Finchley.