Alan Thomas Grieve, CBE (born 22 January 1928) is a lawyer, company director and chairman of the Jerwood Foundation. Alan Grieve was born in London, England. He was educated at Aldenham School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He undertook National Service and was commissioned in 1949 in the Royal Armoured Corps (14th/20th Kings Hussars); he subsequently served as a Territorial Army officer in the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders). He joined the Gray's Inn solicitors Taylor & Humbert in 1958 after gaining commercial, city and merger and acquisition experience as an assistant solicitor at Slaughter and May. He became senior partner of Taylor & Humbert in 1980. During those 22 years the firms expanded as a commercial and private client practice and established Interlex, an international grou