His paternal grandmother Helena was a Perceval, and the granddaughter of the Earl of Egmont.
His father was Alfred Perceval Graves (born in Dublin, 22 July 1846) who was a poet of high standing, writing many charming poems and ballads.
Graves's father, Alfred Perceval Graves, incensed at some aspects of the book, wrote a riposte to it entitled To Return to All That.
Alfred Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Alfred the Great | Robert Graves | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Alfred A. Knopf | Alfred Stieglitz | John Graves Simcoe | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Alfred | Lord Alfred Douglas | Alfred University | Alfred L. Kroeber | Alfred Russel Wallace | Alfred Pennyworth | Alfred Nobel | Commonwealth War Graves Commission | Alfred Molina | Alfred Marshall | Alfred Kinsey | Alfred Sisley | Alfred Wegener | Alfred Cortot | Alfred Bester | Alfred North Whitehead | Alfred E. Steele | Alfred von Tirpitz | Alfred Thayer Mahan | Alfred Adler | Prince Alfred College |
Significant figures published in Mannin include: T. E. Brown, John Ruskin, Archibald Knox, W. H. Gill, A. P. Graves, George Borrow, Josephine Kermode, P. M. C. Kermode, William Boyd Dawkins, Mona Douglas, Edward Forbes, William Cubbon and W. Walter Gill.