Hugh C. Grier was listed at No. 9 in electoral registers from 1959 to 1962, together with his wife Mary E. Grier. At the time Christopher Grier was The Scotsman’s music critic. He was born 04 December 1922 son of Alexander Roy MacGregor Grier, an Anglican priest and schoolmaster, and his wife Edith Mary Howes. On leaving school he won a music scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge. His studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the Black Watch in Senegal. He joined The Scotsman as music critic in 1949. He moved to London in 1963 to join the Evening Standard as music critic, retiring from this position in 1990. Between 1972 and 1984 he was also Professor at the Royal College of Music. On retirement he resided with the Noble Brothers of Poverty at St Cross Hospital, Winchester where he died on 07 May 1997.[1]
Hugh Christopher Grier married Mary Elizabeth Martin at St Conan’s Kirk, Lochawe, Argyll on 30 November 1950.[2] She was born about 1925, daughter of Brigadier John Crawford Martin, and died in Edinburgh in 2015.[3]
[1] Obituaries. The Scotsman. 16 May 1997. GRIER, Christopher. p. 20. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 24 September 2023.
[2] ‘Lochaweside Wedding.’ Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser. 09 December 1950. p. 5, col. 7. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 30 September 2023.
[3] Deaths index (SR) Scotland. Edinburgh. 2015. GRIER, Mary Elizabeth. 734/ 890. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 26 September 2023,