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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Grosvenor, Charles

Grosvenor, Charles, A.N.Z.A.A., Public Accountant, Legal Manager, Mining and Financial Agent, Auckland. Mr. Grosvenor was born at Hunslet, a suburb of Leeds, England, in 1858, and was educated at Parnel College, near Harrogate. He is the eldest son of the late Mr. Bower Grosvenor, one of the firm of Charles Grosvenor and Son, ironmasters and colliery proprietors, Leeds, and a descendant of the late Mr. Joshua Bower, a president of the Chamber of Commerce, Leeds. Mr. Grosvenor was trained at Home for a civil engineer, but was prevented, through a combination of untoward circumstances, from obtaining his diploma. In 1884 he migrated to New Zealand, and was subsequently appointed confidential clerk and draughtsman to the Bay of Islands Coal Company at Kawakawa, but returned to Auckland in 1892, when he commenced business, as a public accountant and financial agent. Mr. Grosvenor is one of the patentees of the New Hydro-Carbon Gas Generator. He has been successful in forming a company to develop the patent in New Zealand and Australia, and occupies a prominent position in connection therewith. The name of the company is “The Premier, Light, Heat, and Power Company, Limited.” Mr. Grosvenor married Miss Effie Hipkins, daughter of the late Mr. David Hipkins, a retired Staffordshire ironmaster, and sister to the Rev. F. C. Hipkins, M.A., of Repton Priory, Derbyshire.