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Michael Grylls
British Conservative politician (1934–2001)
Sir William Michael John Grylls (21 February 1934 – 7 February 2001) was a British Conservative politician who was an MP from 1970 to 1997.
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He was implicated in the cash-for-questions affair, a political scandal of the 1990s. He was the father of adventurer and the Scout Association's Chief ScoutBear Grylls.
Background
Grylls was born in Folkestone, Kent, the son of Brigadier William Edward Harvey Grylls OBE, of the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, and Rachel Elizabeth, daughter of Brigadier General Kempster Kenmure Knapp and a cousin of the journalist and Conservative politician Bill Deedes.[1][2][3] The Grylls family owned and lived at Winterborne Zelston House, near Blandford, Dorset;[4] the family can be traced back to 17th century Cornwall.
He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. His eyesight was not good enough for the Navy, so he joined the Royal Mar