Choose the incorrect sentence according to oldest strictest British English grammar usage rules?

“State what the ‘laws’ of grammar initially intended.”

It’s impossible to answer in those terms. For fundamental aspects of English such as basic sentence structure, nobody sat down and codified a set of rules about what Engish was “intended” to be. All you can do is look at respectable usage, and mostly that usage supports variant ways of expressing things; forget the idea that if two usages exist, one must be wrong.

I can tell you without even looking that both of those forms are 100% correct grammatically, but that “tell the fact to him” is considerably less idiomatic. I can’t find any examples, but you can verify that this is the situation for the similar constructs “tell him the story” vs “tell the story to him”.

“tell him the story” http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22tell+the+story+to+him%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_min:Jan%201_2%201800,cd_max:Dec%2031_2%201900&num=10#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min%3AJan+1_2+1800%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1900&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%22tell+him+the+story%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=62a9b4bddd8e7f1d&biw=1152&bih=647
“tell the story to him” http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22tell+the+story+to+him%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_min:Jan%201_2%201800,cd_max:Dec%2031_2%201900&num=10#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min%3AJan+1_2+1800%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1900&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%22tell+the+story+to+him%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=%22tell+the+story+to+him%22&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=62a9b4bddd8e7f1d&biw=1152&bih=647