According to Singapore Street Names1, the road got its name from a house called Orange Grove which was one of the houses belonging to one Charles Carnie (1810-1873). Carnie possibly built Orange Grove in the 1860s. That house was later acquired by a local lawyer, Alexander Leathes Donaldson.
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