Thomas Grosvenor (British Army officer)

Field Marshal Thomas Grosvenor (30 May 1764 – 20 January 1851) was a senior officer in the British Army.

Military career
Born the third son of Thomas Grosvenor MP, Grosvenor was educated at Westminster School and commissioned into the 1st foot guards in 1779. He was in charge of security at the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780. He held various brigade commands in Southern England between 1803 and 1805.

He was a brigade commander at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807 and again for the Walcheren Campaign in 1809.

He became Member of Parliament for Chester from 1795 and for Stockbridge from 1826.

In 1846 he became a Field Marshal.

Family
In 1797 he married Elizabeth Heathcote and in 1831 he married Anne Wilbraham.