Frederick Brent Grotrian (1838–1905) was an English Conservative Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East constituency (1886–1892).
Early life Frederick Brent Grotrian was son of Frederick Ludwig Christian Grotrian, of London and Brighton, East Sussex, who had been a certificated master in the Merchant Navy,Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1688The Mercantile Navy List 1848, ed. J. H. Brown, Bradbury & Evans, 1861, p. 52 and Amelia, daughter of Samuel Brent, of London and Horndean, Hampshire.Dod's Parliamentary Companion, sixty-second issue, Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd, Whittaker & Co., 1888, p. 242
Career Grotrian was founder of the Hull Daily Mail (1889), member of the Hull Chamber of Commerce, and one of the founders of the Drypool and Marfleet Steam Tramways Company.
Personal life In 1862 Grotian married Elizabeth (died 1930), daughter of John Hunter, of Felixkirk, formerly of Cawton, Gilling East, North Yorkshire, yeoman, one of the three principal landowners at Cawton (this "small village and township" comprising 1,020 acres and home to 89 people in 1840) along with the Tindall and Shepherd families;Dod's Parliamentary Companion, sixty-second issue, Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd, Whittaker & Co., 1888, p. 242History, gazetteer and directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, William White, Robert Leader (Sheffield), 1840, p. 427 one of their eight children, second of four sons, was Sir Herbert Brent Grotrian. Grotrian lived at Ingmanthorpe Hall, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, having previously lived at West Hill House, Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1688 Another child, his daughter Gwendolen, married the artist James McBryde and under her married name was known as an artist, and as a writer for The Guardian "Country Diary" column.
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