Marriage and Children
In 1938 he married Laura Bonham Carter, the sister of another life peer (Mark Bonham Carter), the daughter of a life peeress (Violet Bonham Carter), and the granddaughter of a hereditary peer of first creation (H. H. Asquith).
The couple had four children:
- Grizelda "Gelda" Grimond (born 1942), who had a daughter by the film and stage director Tony Richardson.
- John Grimond, a foreign editor of The Economist who in 1973 married Kate Fleming (b. 1946), elder daughter of the writer Peter Fleming and actress Celia Johnson, and has three children with her. He is the main author of The Economist Style Guide
- Magnus Grimond, journalist and financial correspondent, married to travel author Laura Grimond (née Raison).
- Andrew Grimond (1939–1966), a sub-editor of The Scotsman, lived in Edinburgh until his suicide at the age of 26.
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and, marriage and/or children:
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)
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