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Authorised form of nameGrey; Thomas (1654 - 1720); 2nd Earl of Stamford
Dates1654 - 1720
NationalityBritish
Date of birth1654
Date of death31 January 1720
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Bradgate, Leicestershire
ActivityEducation:
Christ Church, Oxford. MA (1668)
Career:
Imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of complicity in the Rye House plot and the Monmouth Rebellion (1685-1686); pardoned; High Steward of the Honour of Leicester (1689); Privy Councillor (1694); Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital (1695); Lord (1695), then First Lord (1798-1702, 1707-1711) of Trade and Plantations; Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1696-1702); Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1697-1702); dismissed from all offices on the accession of Queen Anne
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/05/1708
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Grey, Baron Grey, and his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, and his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Oliver St John, Baron St John of Bletso; succeeded his grandfather (1673).
Married: 1) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Daniel Harvey of Combe Neville, Kingston, Surrey, Ambassador to Constantinople, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Broughton, from whom he separated before her death; 2) Mary, daughter of Joseph Maynard of Gunnersbury, Ealing, Middlesex, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Moseley, Bart
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Foster
CodeNA7368
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