JAMES GRIGG

(Sir Percy James Grigg)


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James Grigg
James Grigg
  • Born: December 16, 1890
  • Died: May 5, 1964
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Sir Percy James Grigg, KCB, KCSI, PC, better known as Sir James Grigg, was a British civil servant who was unexpectedly moved, at the behest of then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, from being the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office to become Secretary of State for War, the political head of the same department during the Second World War.