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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. The first Earl Grey was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey.The second Earl was a prominent Whig politician and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834, which tenure saw the passing of the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833.
The Grey family is an ancient English noble family that traces its origins to Creully in Normandy.The founder of the family was Anchetil de Greye, a Norman chevalier and vassal of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of the few proven companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Shield of arms of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. Descended from a long-established Northumbrian family seated at Howick Hall, Grey was the second but eldest surviving son of General Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey KB (1729–1807) and his wife Elizabeth (1743/4–1822), a daughter of George Grey of Southwick, County Durham. He had four brothers and ...
At Harrow Grey in 1873 (front row, second from right), Shakespeare Society, Trinity College, Cambridge. Grey was the younger and only surviving son of General Sir Charles Grey—a younger son of former British prime minister the second Earl Grey and later the private secretary to Prince Albert and later still to Queen Victoria—and his wife, Caroline Eliza Farquhar, eldest daughter of Sir ...
Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey KG GCMG PC (28 December 1802 – 9 October 1894), known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman and cabinet minister in the government of the United Kingdom.
R. Ralph Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Werke; Ralph Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Werke; Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent; Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton
Philip Kent Grey, 7th Earl Grey (11 May 1940 – 5 November 2023) was a British naval pilot and hereditary peer. [2] His father, Albert Harry George Campbell Grey, was born in Ottawa , Ontario and served as Trooper with the Canadian Armoured Corps when he was killed in 1942.
Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, KB, PC (circa 23 October 1729 – 14 November 1807) was a British Army general in the 18th century and a scion of the noble House of Grey.He was a distinguished soldier in a generation of exceptionally capable military personnel, serving crucially in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars.