Greville was educated at Rugby School and entered the Army, at first in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and then the 1st Life Guards.[2] Greville resigned his commission as a captain in 1896 when he was elected as a Member of Parliament.[2][5]
On 25 April 1891, he married Margaret Helen Anderson (1863–1942).[4] Margaret was the illegitimate daughter of William McEwan, a multimillionaire brewer (later elected as an MP for Edinburgh Central)[8][9] and his mistress, Helen Anderson, a cook who married McEwan after her first husband's death in 1885.[10] After their marriage, they lived at Polesden Lacey, in Great Bookham, Surrey, a gift from his wife's father.[4]
On 5 April 1908, when Greville was 43, he died from pneumonia following an operation, predeceasing his own father and never acceding to the peerage.[2] As Ronald had no children, after his father's death the following December 1909,[11] his younger brother Charles became the 3rd Baron Greville.[12]
^ abcd"Captain The Hon. Ronald Greville". Obituaries. The Times. No. 38613. 6 April 1908. p. 6.
^Mair, Robert H. (1884). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons bearing Hereditary or Courtesy Titles, of Companions of the Orders of Knighthood and of the Indian Empire, and of all Collateral Branches of Peers and Baronets; Illustrated with 1400 Armorial Bearings. London: Dean and Son. p. 314.
^Record of Service held at Household Cavalry Museum
^Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 432. ISBN0-900178-27-2.
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