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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (c. 1764–1845) was the son of Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lord Grey's government enacted the abolition of slavery in the British Empire by initiating the mass purchase of slaves from their owners in 1833.
Grey was the eldest son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who served as Prime Minister in the 1830s, by his wife The Honorable Mary Ponsonby, daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1821, graduating with a nobleman's MA in 1823. [1]
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.
Elizabeth Grey (1800–1818) who married Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and died after the birth of their son, Charles George Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. Harriet Caroline Augusta Grey (1802–1889) who married Reverend John Simon Jenkinson and had six children.
The Earl Grey: 1806 Alexander Grey, 8th Earl Grey United Kingdom Alexander Grey, Viscount Howick: 128 The Earl of Lonsdale: 1807 William Lowther, 9th Earl of Lonsdale United Kingdom James Lowther (half-brother) 129 The Earl of Harrowby: 1809 Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby: United Kingdom Dudley Ryder, Viscount Sandon: 130 The Earl of ...
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