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Grove, Sir William Robert, born 1811 at Swansea, was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar in 1835, was appointed Judge in 1871, and retired in 1887. He studied deeply electricity and optics, and was for a time professor of natural science at the London Institution. In 1866 he was President of the British Association. In 1839 he invented the battery which was called after him, and he has lectured and written on the correlation of physical forces, and many other points of physical science.