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.
Read more about this topic: Jo Grimond
Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or children:
“Always the same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“Just because multiples can turn to each other for companionship, and at times for comfort, don’t be fooled into thinking you’re not still vital to them. Don’t let or make multiples be parents as well as siblings to each other. . . . Parent interaction with infants and young children has everything to do with how those children develop on every level, including how they develop their identities.”
—Pamela Patrick Novotny (20th century)