Baron Grimthorpe, of Grimthorpe in the East Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 February 1886 for the lawyer and architect Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet, with remainder to the heirs male of his father. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Baron. He had earlier represented Grimsby in Parliament. As of 2014 the titles are held by the latter's great-grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2003.
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
Arms of the Beckett family
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe,, known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison, was an English lawyer, mechanician, and controversialist, as well as a noted horologist and architect.
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
"Bells" Baron Grimthorpe as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1889
The Trinity College Clock mechanism was designed by Lord Grimthorpe
St Chad's Church, Far Headingley