John Groves (British Army officer)

Major John Richard Groves (died 1859) was the first Crown Equerry in the Royal Household, appointed in 1854.^[1]

He died in office in 1859. Major Groves held the concurrent office of Superintendent of the Royal Mews.

Groves was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and purchased a Second Lieutenantcy in the Rifle Brigade in 1825. He was a First Lieutenant by 1829, when he was appointed adjutant, and purchased a Captaincy in 1832. In 1853, having left the Regular Army, he was commissioned Major in the Essex Rifles.

Notes

1. The Annual Register: Or a View of the History, Politics and Literature, for the Year ... Dodsley. 1855. p. 387.