that it posed. However, Grigg never openly challenged the policy of appeasement that was advanced by the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain and kept his criticisms private. When war broke out, Grigg joined the government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information. In April 1940, he became first the financial secretary, then joint parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, a post that he held until March 1942. He declined Winston Churchill's invitation to become First Commissioner of Works, as it was dependent upon acceptance of a peerage, and Grigg did not return to government until 21 November 1944 when he was selected as Minister-Resident for the Middle East as successor to Lord Moyne, who had been assassinated two weeks earlier. Grigg was also appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1944. Later life In the aftermath of the Conservative caretaker government's defeat at the 1945 general election, Grigg was raised to the peerage as Baron Altrincham, of Tormarton in the County of Gloucester, which ended his political career. Three years later, he assumed the editorship of the National Review, a post that he held until failing health forced his retirement in 1954. Grigg died a year later in Gloucestershire aged 76. His son, John Grigg, who became the second Baron Altrincham upon his father's death, disclaimed the peerage in 1963 under the terms of the Peerage Act of that year. Works The Greatest Experiment in World History (1924) Unity (1935) The Faith of an Englishman (1936) Britain Looks at Germany (1938) The British Commonwealth: Its Place in the Service of the World (1944) Kenya's Opportunity: Memories, Hopes and Ideas (1955) Arms References ThePeerage.com: Sir Edward William MacLeay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham External links Altrincham, Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Alumni of New College, Oxford British Army personnel of World War I British Kenya people Colonial governors and administrators of Kenya Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Grenadier Guards officers Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians People educated at Summer Fields School People educated