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17 de may. de 2022 · The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office in early August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world.The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Edward Grey. Edward Grey may refer to: Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), British Liberal Foreign Secretary in First World War. Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (died 1492), English nobleman who was created Viscount Lisle in 1483. Eddie Grey (1918–2004), Sri Lankan sportsman and police officer.
Quick Reference. (b. London, 25 Apr. 1862; d. Fallodon, Northumberland, 7 Sept. 1933) British; Foreign Secretary 1905–16; Bt. 1882, Viscount 1916 The son of an army officer, Grey was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, from which he was sent down. At the age of 23 he was elected Liberal MP for Berwick-on-Tweed, and retained ...
21 de mar. de 2016 · ABSTRACT. This article examines the private life of Sir Edward Grey in order to explore some of the contradictions in Grey's character that continue to interest biographers and academics: he was apparently without ambition yet he pursued a successful political career; he longed to live his life in the country but spent much of it working in London; he was a man whose reputation was built on ...
9 de jun. de 2022 · Grey did not have the benefit of his critics’ hindsight. Otte pinpoints the difficult situation in which Grey found himself during the July Crisis, trying to nurture newly improved relations with Germany without letting down Britain’s Entente partner, France, and its ally Russia. “If Britain acted with the Franco-Russian bloc, it could ...
Edward Grey, 1. wicehrabia Grey of Fallodon KG (ur. 25 kwietnia 1862 w Londynie, zm. 7 września 1933 w Fallodon) – polityk brytyjski, członek Partii Liberalnej, minister spraw zagranicznych w latach 1905–1916 w rządach Henry’ego Campbella-Bannermana i Herberta Henry’ego Asquitha.
Sir Edward Grey, third Baronet and first Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was the longest serving Foreign Secretary of the twentieth century, guiding Britain’s foreign policy in 1905-16. In the 1920s, he was a prominent voice on foreign affairs, and a strong supporter of Asquithian Liberalism.
