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Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, Died 1590)
Thomas Grey may refer to: * Sir Thomas Grey (constable) (died c. 1344), English soldier, Constable of Norham Castle * Sir Thomas Grey (chronicler) (died c. 1369), English soldier and chronicler, son of the above * Sir Thomas Grey (conspirator) (1384–1415), English aristocrat, ringleader of the Southampton Plot * Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1451–1501), English nobleman and courtier, also Earl of Huntingdon * Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1477–1530), English magnate and courtier, son of the above * Thomas Grey (Staffordshire MP) (by 1508–1559), MP for Staffordshire in 1554 * Thomas Grey (Norwich MP) (by 1519–58), MP for Norwich in 1557 * Sir Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, died 1570) (before 1512–1570), MP for Northumberland in 1553, 1554 and 1558 * Sir Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, died 1590) (1549–1590), MP for Northumberland in 1586 * Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1614), English aristocrat and soldier * Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey (constable)
Sir Thomas Grey (d. before March 1344) of Heaton Castle in the parish of Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, was a soldier who served throughout the Wars of Scottish Independence. His experiences were recorded by his son Thomas Grey (chronicler), Thomas Grey in his chronicles, and provide a rare picture of the day to day realities of the Wars. His career, blemished by his suicidal charge at the Battle of Bannockburn, a contributing factor to the devastating English defeat, is perhaps best known for his role in the tale of Sir William Marmion, the chivalric knight of Norham Castle. Career and life Early life Grey was serving under William de Hesilrig, Sheriff of Clydesdale (district), Clydesdale as early as 1297. Following William Wallace's nighttime Action at Lanark, assassination of the Sheriff at Lanark, Grey was left for dead, stripped naked in the snow. He only survived because of the heat from the houses burning around him and was rescued the next day and his wounds healed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, Died 1590)
Thomas Grey may refer to: * Sir Thomas Grey (constable) (died c. 1344), English soldier, Constable of Norham Castle * Sir Thomas Grey (chronicler) (died c. 1369), English soldier and chronicler, son of the above * Sir Thomas Grey (conspirator) (1384–1415), English aristocrat, ringleader of the Southampton Plot * Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1451–1501), English nobleman and courtier, also Earl of Huntingdon * Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1477–1530), English magnate and courtier, son of the above * Thomas Grey (Staffordshire MP) (by 1508–1559), MP for Staffordshire in 1554 * Thomas Grey (Norwich MP) (by 1519–58), MP for Norwich in 1557 * Sir Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, died 1570) (before 1512–1570), MP for Northumberland in 1553, 1554 and 1558 * Sir Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, died 1590) (1549–1590), MP for Northumberland in 1586 * Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1614), English aristocrat and soldier * Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas C
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Grey
Thomas H. Grey (birth unknown – 3 January 1915) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Swansea RFC, as a halfback, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Halifax ( Heritage No. 151), and Huddersfield, as a , or , i.e. number 6, or 7. Playing career International honours Tommy Grey won 3 caps for Wales (RL) in 1911–1912 while at Huddersfield. County Cup Final appearances Tommy Grey played in Huddersfield's 2–8 defeat by Wakefield Trinity in the 1910 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1910–11 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 3 December 1910, and played , and scored a try and 2-goals in the 22–10 victory over Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1911 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1911–12 season at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 25 November 1911. County Cup Final appearances Tommy Grey was transferr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey (poet)
Thomas Grey (1863–1928) was an English poet who wrote about his local area of the Scottish Borders, the First World War and rail transport. Life and railway work Thomas Grey was born on 16 September 1863 at Shoreswood, Norham, in Northumberland. He worked on trains for much of his life for the North Eastern Railway. On 3 July 1887 he married Esther Glenwright at South Shields and they resided in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Grey died on 14 August 1928 and is buried in Tweedmouth Cemetery. Poetry Grey was variously known as the ''Border Poet'', ''Engine Driver Poet'' and ''Footplate Poet''. Much of his output appeared in the local press and was never independently published during his lifetime. He was one of the best known writers of Border Poetry, and for some years he was the writer of Tweedmouth Topics in a Border Newspaper, relinquishing this post due to illness in the last 20 years of his life. He also wrote in “The Wheatsheaf” (the Co-operative Movement’s Official Magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl Of Stamford
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, PC (c. 165431 January 1720) was a British peer and politician. Grey was the only son of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, and inherited his title from his grandfather. His mother was Lady Dorothy Bourchier, daughter of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath. Grey took some part in resisting the arbitrary actions of James II, and was arrested in July 1685. After his release he took up arms on behalf of William of Orange in the Glorious Revolution, after whose accession to the throne he was made a Privy Counsellor (1694) and Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1696). Politically he was described as an "unrepentant Whig", who reaffirmed his belief in the Popish Plot by voting against the motion to reverse the attainder on William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford. In 1697 he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and in 1699 President of the Board of Trade, being dismissed from his office upon the accession of Anne in 1702. From 1707 to 1711, however, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey Of Groby
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby (c. 16231657), was an elected Member of Parliament for Leicester during the English Long Parliament, an active member of the Parliamentary party and a regicide. He was the eldest son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, using his father's as his own Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom, courtesy title, and Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter. In January 1643, during the First English Civil War he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Parliament in the Midland Counties and Governor of Leicester. In 1648 he won some credit for his share in the pursuit and capture of the James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton; he assisted Thomas Pride, Colonel Pride in Pride's Purge, purging the Parliament of England, Parliament by helping to identify members to be excluded. Later in 1648, he was made List of regicides of Charles I, commissioner of the court which tried Charles I of England, King Charles I. His sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey De Wilton
Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1614) was an English aristocrat, soldier and conspirator. He was convicted of involvement in the Bye Plot against James I of England. Early life The son of Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey of Wilton, by his second wife Jane Sibella Morison, daughter of Sir Richard Morison, he served in the fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He succeeded his father as Lord Grey of Wilton in 1593, and identified himself with the Puritans. Grey took part as a volunteer in the Islands Voyage of 1597. He was anxious to command a regiment; when Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex went to Ireland as Lord Deputy in March 1599, Grey was one of his followers, and received a commission as colonel of horse. Soon after his arrival in Ireland Essex asked him to declare himself his friend only, and to detach himself from Sir Robert Cecil but Grey declined on the ground that he was indebted to Cecil. Henceforth Essex and Essex's friend Southampton treated Grey as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northumberland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Northumberland, was a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290 to 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was split into two two-member divisions, for Parliamentary purposes, by the Reform Act of 1832. The county was then represented by the Northumberland North and Northumberland South constituencies. Members of Parliament MPs 1290–1640 MPs 1640–1832 Elections The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which took place in the town of Alnwick. The expense and difficulty of voting at only one location in the county, together with the lack of a secret ballot contribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey (chronicler)
Sir Thomas Grey or Gray (d. before 22 October 1369) of Heaton Castle in the parish of Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, was the son of Sir Thomas Grey, an eminent soldier in the Anglo-Scottish wars in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II, and his wife, Agnes de Bayles. He was the author of the English chronicle, the ''Scalacronica''. Family Thomas Grey, author of the ''Scalacronica'', was the son of Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton (d. before 12 March 1344) and his wife Agnes de Bayles. Grey had four sisters, who according to Andy King married John de Eure, William de Felton, William Heron, and Gerard Salvayn. Grey's father served almost continuously during the Anglo-Scottish wars in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II. In May 1297 Grey's father was left for dead on the field when William Wallace attacked Lanark, but recovered, and was active in various campaigns in the ensuing years. In May 1303 the elder Grey was captured by the Scots at Melrose Abbey, and after his release was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, Died 1570)
Thomas Grey may refer to: * Sir Thomas Grey (constable) (died c. 1344), English soldier, Constable of Norham Castle * Sir Thomas Grey (chronicler) (died c. 1369), English soldier and chronicler, son of the above * Sir Thomas Grey (conspirator) (1384–1415), English aristocrat, ringleader of the Southampton Plot * Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1451–1501), English nobleman and courtier, also Earl of Huntingdon * Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1477–1530), English magnate and courtier, son of the above * Thomas Grey (Staffordshire MP) (by 1508–1559), MP for Staffordshire in 1554 * Thomas Grey (Norwich MP) (by 1519–58), MP for Norwich in 1557 * Sir Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, died 1570) (before 1512–1570), MP for Northumberland in 1553, 1554 and 1558 * Sir Thomas Grey (Northumberland MP, died 1590) (1549–1590), MP for Northumberland in 1586 * Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1614), English aristocrat and soldier * Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Grey (Norwich MP)
Thomas Grey (by 1519–1558), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ... in 1555. References 1558 deaths Politicians from Norwich English MPs 1555 Year of birth uncertain {{16thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
