Now, smuggling leeches is one thing, what brought Grenville to international attention was the much more lucrative trade of armaments. He was also a close acquaintance of a notorious Gibraltarian smuggler, Joseph Benjunes, and a Genoese with a very dubious past, a Sr.
Indeed in 1847 Grenville admitted leech smuggling, in association with another adventurer, "Count" St Marie, and his girlfriend (leeches were very important in medicine at the time, and Morocco was a major supplier). Until you consider that smuggling between Gibraltar and Morocco was then a very lucrative, and not completely illegal, activity. Why a man of Grenfell's temperament and complete lack of agricultural education should chose to do either is not immediately obvious. He stayed there from 1844-46, partly clearing a stretch of wasteland he had bought, partly helping at the British consulate in Tangiers. At least by October 1843 he was in London, where he obtained a Dutch passport under the name of George St Leger, rather suspiciously given his past, and future, business arrangements.īy January 1844 Grenfell/ Leger was in Gibraltar, and shortly after in the Sultanate of Morocco, at Tangiers. The British consul in Montevideo was scrupulous in recording Britons with Garibaldi's forces and there's no mention of Grenfell there. Grenfell himself claimed at various times that he was in the bodyguard of Emir Abd-el-Kader fighting the French in Algeria (of whom more anon), or with Garibaldi in South America though there is no evidence at all for the latter. What happened in the next three years, from 1840-1843 is a mystery. Rather surprisingly, by November 1840 he was in London and being made a Freeman of the Founders Company, his misdeeds forgotten, or at least indulged.Ī somewhat romantic view of the 1830 revolution His day job was as a banker in his father´s business, which by 1837 he had bankrupted, and in 1840 he fled France to escape charges of forging a commercial document. During 1830 he saw action of a kind, joining friends in the street fighting in July that deposed Charles X and ushered in Louis Phillippe I, and for the next 5 years he was part of the National Guard, which in Paris in the 1830s functioned as a sort of riot police.
So far, an unusual life maybe, but not an especially military one. He was born in 1808, the son of a wealthy banker and metal trader, and after schooling in Holland he settled in Paris, where he married. Leger Grenfell: His Pre-Civil War Career by Stephen Starr (The Journal of Southern History, Vol. For the reality behind the myth (much generated by Grenfell himself) I´m quoting here from Colonel George St. By following this model, one never has to feel unsafe or afraid ever again.Grenfell had a fascinating life, though not quite so fascinating as he liked to make out.
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