Professor Richard S. Grayson

Grayson was Head of the History Department and Professor of Twentieth Century History at Goldsmiths College, the University of London, where he had previously been Senior Lecturer on British and Irish Politics. He was a former Director of Policy of the Liberal Democrat Party. His Great Uncle, from Lurgan, Co. Armagh, served and died in September 1915 on the Western Front while serving in the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.