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.
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or children:
“And what if my descendants lose the flower
Through natural declension of the soul,
Through too much business with the passing hour,
Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)