Dr. William Ebenezer Grigsby (3 April 1847 - 11 August 1899) was a jurist and local politician. Born in Chelmsford, Essex, he was the son of of David Grigsby, a schoolmaster and Congregational minister and his wife Catherine (or Kate) née Savell. When the first elections to the London County Council were held in January 1889, Grigsby, by then resident in Holloway, was nominated a candidate by the Liberal-backed Progressive Party to contest the Islington North division. He was comfortably elected along with his party colleague, William Coulson Parkinson. He was re-elected in 1892.