Biography

F.B. Grotian married Elizabeth Hunter in 1862, having eight children Ethel, Hilda, Bessie, Gwendolen, Frederick, Herbert (later Sir Herbert Brent Grotrian), Harold, and Edgar.

He was founder of the Hull Daily Mail

Hull Daily Mail

The Hull Daily Mail is the local daily newspaper for Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and is published along with the free weekly, Hull Advertiser. There used to be a weekly sports paper, the SportsMail, but this folded in 2006...

 (1889), member of the Hull Chamber of Commerce,, and one of the founders of the Drypool and Marfleet Steam Tramways Company.