The 1949 Journal contains the following obituary: "J. B. GROVE was a Life Member for many years. He had served on the Committee and was an Honorary Secretary for about 10 years. Failing eyesight caused his retirement from business, when he went to live at Windlesham in Surrey after which his visits to the Club were few. We remember him at Remenham Club dinners held in the Club before the war and we think he was last at the Club at the General Meeting in March 1946. He rowed "3" at Henley in the Thames Cup crews of 1900 and 1901. He was an original member of the Remenham Club and was on the Committee at the time of his death. He once told us he had not missed a Regatta at Henley for 50 years. We last saw him in the Remenham Club during the Olympic Regatta, 1948. He was very delighted at the success of the Club, and of his old school (Bedford) at Henley in 1948."

A relative of Clement Chevallier Cream provided the additional information that Grove married one of Cream's daughters. This was confirmed via Ancestry - he married Muriel Chevallier Cream on 9 September 1911 at St Mary's, Putney.