Anthony Grey, 3rd Baron Lucas, styled Earl of Harold (21 February 1695 – 21 July 1723) was a

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peer and courtier.

Biography

Grey was the eldest son of

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, and his wife, Jemima Crew. On 17 February 1718, Anthony married Lady Mary Tufton, a daughter and coheiress of

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, by his wife Lady Catharine Cavendish. He was called to the

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, by

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in his father's barony of Lucas, on 8 November 1718. Lord Harold was a

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to George, Prince of Wales, later King George II, from 1720 until his death in 1723, aged 28, from choking on an

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, the beard of which stuck in his throat. He had no children,Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 11. so his title reverted to his father and his wife later married

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