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The Hon. Mary Ponsonby. General Charles Grey (15 March 1804 – 31 March 1870) was a British army officer, member of the British House of Commons and political figure in Lower Canada. In later life, he served as private secretary to Prince Albert and later Queen Victoria .
- 15 March 1804
- Albert, Prince Consort (unofficial)
Charles Grey (British Army officer) (1804–1870), British Army general, Member of Parliament for Wycombe, and Private Secretary to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. Charles Grey (mayor) (1859–1925), New Zealand businessman and mayor of Auckland City. C. G. Grey (1875–1953), English aviation writer.
18 de feb. de 2024 · General Charles Grey (15 March 1804 – 31 March 1870) was a British army officer, member of the British House of Commons and political figure in Lower Canada. In later life, he served as private secretary to Prince Albert and later Queen Victoria.
- Early Life
- Early Political Career
- Foreign Secretary, 1806–1807
- Years in Opposition, 1807–1830
- Prime Minister
- Personal Life
- Legacy
- Further Reading
- External Links
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 two sisters. He was educated at Richmond School, followe...
Grey was elected to Parliament for the Northumberland constituency on 14 September 1786, aged just 22. He became a part of the Whig circle of Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and the Prince of Wales, and soon became one of the major leaders of the Whig party. He was the youngest manager on the committee for prosecuting Warren Hastings....
In 1806, Grey, by then Lord Howick owing to his father's elevation to the peerage as Earl Grey, became a part of the Ministry of All the Talents (a coalition of Foxite Whigs, Grenvillites, and Addingtonites) as First Lord of the Admiralty. Following Fox's death later that year, Howick took over both as foreign secretaryand as leader of the Whigs. T...
The government fell from power the next year, and, after a brief period as a member of parliament for Appleby from May to July 1807, Howick went to the Lords, succeeding his father as Earl Grey. He continued in opposition for the next 23 years. There were times during this period when Grey came close to joining the Government. In 1811, the Prince R...
Appointment
In 1830, following the death of George IV and the resignation of the Duke of Wellington on the question of Parliamentary reform, the Whigs finally returned to power, with Grey as prime minister. In 1831, he was made a member of the Order of the Garter. His term was a notable one, seeing the passage of the Reform Act 1832, which finally saw the reform of the House of Commons, and the abolition of slavery throughout almost all of the British Empire in 1833 with the Slavery Abolition Act. As the...
Colonial policy
Grey contributed to a plan to found a new colony in South Australia: in 1831 a "Proposal to His Majesty's Government for founding a colony on the Southern Coast of Australia" was prepared under the auspices of Robert Gouger, Anthony Bacon, Jeremy Bentham and Grey, but its ideas were considered too radical, and it was unable to attract the required investment. In the same year, Grey was appointed to serve on the Government Commission upon Emigration(which was wound up in 1832).
Social policy
In 1831 2 acts were introduced concerning Truck wages. The first repealed all existing enactments on the subject of truck "and the second provided that workmen in a number of the principal industries must receive payment in the current coin of the realm."
Before his marriage, Grey had an affair with the married Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Grey met Cavendish while attending a Whig society meeting in Devonshire House, and they became lovers. In 1791 she became pregnant and was sent to France, where she gave birth to an illegitimatedaughter, who was raised by Grey's parents: 1. Eliza Co...
Grey is commemorated by Grey's Monument in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, which consists of a statue of Lord Grey standing atop a 40 m (130 ft) high column. The monument was damaged by lightning in 1941 and the statue's head was knocked off. The monument lends its name to Monument Metro station on the Tyne and Wear Metro, located directly under...
Brett, Peter. "Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey" in D. M. Loades, ed. (2003). Reader's guide to British history. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 1:586–87. ISBN 9781579584269.Smith, E. A. (2004). "Charles Grey, second Earl Grey (1764–1845)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11526. (Subscription or UK pub...Smith, E. A. (1990), Lord Grey, 1764–1845, London{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Pennington, D.H."British Prime Ministers : II Earl Grey." History Today(May 1951) 1#5 pp 21–27 online].Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Grey"Archival material relating to Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey". UK National Archives.Portraits of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonWorks by or about Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey at Internet ArchiveWar & Affiliation Revolutionary War / British. Date of Birth - Death 23 October 1729 – 14 November 1807. A man from a prestigious family and a collector of even more prestigious titles, General Charles Grey came to be associated with some of the more controversial and sordid events of the Revolutionary War .
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996 - Generals - 253 pages. Historian Paul David Nelson has written the first complete scholarly biography of Sir Charles Grey, First Earl Grey, one of the most...
El general Charles Gray (15 de marzo de 1804 - 31 de marzo de 1870) fue un oficial del ejército británico, miembro de la Cámara de los Comunes británica y figura política en el Bajo Canadá. Más tarde, se desempeñó como secretario privado del príncipe Alberto y más tarde de la reina Victoria .