David R. Gronow

In Memoriam

David Rodney Gronow

1944 - 28th August 2014

David collapsed and died while watching his beloved Yorkshire Cricket Club. David from Huddersfield, was a popular figure in league cricket and was the former captain of Armitage Bridge Cricket Club. He was perhaps best known for his work as club historian for the Huddersfield Giants.

David was the Grandson of Ben Gronow who was one of the best rugby league forwards in the world during the mid 1920’s, and was the only player from an English club to move to Australia in the first 50 years of the game Down Under.
 Funeral Service at Huddersfield Crematorium on Wednesday September 10th 2014 at 10.00 a.m.
{First Published in the Huddersfield Examiner on 3rd September 2014}

The Way to a Name

When I stumbled upon Caroline Linden’s novel ‘The Way to a Duke’s Heart’, I was bemused by the appearance of a one Maria Gronow, a coquettish, “ethereally beautiful” woman whose family is “a bit dodgy, if you believe the gossip.” It would have been easy to take offence at her mother, the crowing Mrs Gronow, or indeed the “damned wrong” Mr Gronow, if it were not for the inimitable decency of their fair daughter. When I messaged Caroline Linden about her inspiration for the name Gronow, she explained that during her research (take note writers of historical fiction), she chanced upon the reminiscences of our very own Captain Rees Gronow, the Welsh Grenadier Guards officer, and took a fancy to the name. The Gronows in ‘The Way to a Duke’s Heart’ are entirely fictional, but it is nonetheless entertaining to discover that your surname has found its way into the pages of a bestselling book!

Find the novel at Caroline Linden’s site: http://www.carolinelinden.com