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Authorised form of nameBennet; Henry Grey (1777 - 1836)
Dates1777 - 1836
Date of birth02 December 1777
Place of deathFlorence, Italy
Date of death29 May 1836
ActivityEducation:
Eton (1788-1792); Peterhouse, Cambridge (1799-1801) MA 1801;
Career:
Commissioned as an Ensign, 1st Foot Gurads, (17930; Lieutenant and Captain (1794); served as assistant to William Drummond, Envoy to Naples; retired 1798. Admitted to Lincoln's Inn, called to Bar 1803; Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1806-7 and 1811-26.
Freemason, initiated 25 May 1818, Union Lodge of Ionic and Prudence No 16 subsequently Royal Alpha Lodge No 16 London
Under a cloud for a possible homosexual incident, which ruined his reputation.
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/03/1812
RelationshipsSecond son of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville of Chillingham Castle Northumberland, and his wife Emma Colebrooke; married, 15 May 1816, Gertrude Frances Russell, eldest daughter of George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey. One son, who died of consumption; 3 daughters, one died of consumption.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
'Freemasons and the Royal Society; Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who are Masons' The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 2010 page 9
CodeNA4868
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