# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-grigg
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:52:20.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-grigg"
name: "James Grigg"
slug: "james-grigg"
description: "Sir Percy James Grigg, KCB, KCSI, often referred to as P J Grigg and later better known as Sir James Grigg, was a British civil servant. In a very unusual move, during the Second World War he was promoted by Prime Minister Winston Churchill from being the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office to become Secretary of State for War, the Cabinet Minister in charge of the same department."
tagline: "British politician (1890-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Percy_James_Grigg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1890-12-16"
deathDate: "1964-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.675522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grigg"
    title: "James Grigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "چيمس جريج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_James_Grigg"
    title: "Percy James Grigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_James_Grigg"
    title: "Percy James Grigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grigg"
    title: "James Grigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.J._Grigg"
    title: "P.J. Grigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3790150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump