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17 Facts About Louis Greig

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Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE CVO was a Scottish naval surgeon, rugby player, courtier and a friend of King George VI.

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Louis Greig took part in all three Tests against South Africa as well as some of the provincial matches.

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3.

Louis Greig was educated at Glasgow Academy and Merchiston Castle School before studying medicine at the University of Glasgow.

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Academically gifted, Louis Greig was an excellent rugby union and tennis player.

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5.

In 1909, Louis Greig entered officer training at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, where he met Prince Albert, later George VI.

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Louis Greig served as a mentor for the gauche and diffident prince, and the two served together in HMS Cumberland, where he was posted as a surgeon.

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7.

Louis Greig was transferred to the Royal Marines in 1914, and was captured at the fall of Antwerp, spending eight months as a prisoner of war.

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8.

Louis Greig joined the company of HMS Malaya in June 1917, rejoining Prince Albert, and helped cure the Prince of the severe peptic ulcers from which he suffered.

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9.

Louis Greig continued to mentor and advise the Prince, acting as a surrogate father and encouraging his social life.

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10.

Louis Greig encouraged the Duke of York's courtship of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, which was ultimately to have significant consequences for Greig's relations with the Duke.

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11.

Ultimately, Louis Greig was omitted from a royal tour of the Balkans and consequently resigned his equerryship.

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12.

Louis Greig went into a brief eclipse under King Edward VIII, who disliked him, and resigned his ushership on 21 July 1936.

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13.

Louis Greig rejoined the RAF in 1939, serving as a liaison with the Air Ministry and reaching the rank of group captain.

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14.

Louis Greig was operated on for cancer in 1952, but succumbed in early 1953 and was buried in Ham, Surrey.

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15.

Louis Greig played a small role in the formation of the National Government in 1931, and was appointed KBE on 3 June 1932, in which year he was appointed Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park.

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16.

Louis Greig told the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon 'We are pushing our armament programmes as rapidly as we can, because in Europe as it is today we believe in the strong man armed'.

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17.

Louis Greig helped a number of Jewish families find asylum in Britain.

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