Born in 1905, Grigson was the youngest of seven sons of Canon William Shuckforth Grigson (1845-1930), a Norfolk clergyman who had settled in Cornwall as vicar of Pelynt, and Mary Beatrice Boldero, herself the daughter of a clergyman.
Geoffrey Grigson's first wife was Frances Franklin Galt[REF] (who died in 1937 of tuberculosis).