George Harry Booth-Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford and 2nd Earl of Warrington (31 October 1765 – 26 April 1845), styled Lord Grey from 1768 to 1819, was a British
peer and parliamentarian.
Booth-Grey was the eldest son of
George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford
George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1 October 1737 – 28 May 1819), styled Lord Grey from 1739 to 1768, was a British nobleman, who additionally became a peer of Great Britain as Earl of Warrington in 1796.
The eldest son and heir o ...
and his wife, Henrietta
Cavendish Bentinck
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.
He was educated at
Winchester College
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. From 1790 to 1796, he was the
Whig Member of Parliament
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for
Aldeburgh
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. He contested both
Grampound
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and
St Germans, losing the former but representing the latter from 1796 to 1802.
In 1819 he succeeded his father as
Earl of Stamford and Warrington, inheriting the family estates at
Enville, Staffordshire
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Enville is in the South Staffordshire district. The largest village nearby is Kinver, with the smaller villages of Bobbi ...
,
Bradgate Park
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in Leicestershire,
Dunham Massey
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in Cheshire and
Stalybridge
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Historic counties of England, Historically divided between Cheshire and Lancashire, it is east of Manchester city centre and no ...
in Lancashire. He was appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire
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in 1819, and in 1827, succeeded
George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley
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Background ...
as
Vice-Admiral and Chamberlain of the county.
On 23 December 1797, Grey married Henrietta Charlotte Elizabeth Charteris, sister of
Francis Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss.
They lived at Enville Hall, the family
seat
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, and had five children:
*
George Harry (1802–1835), later
Baron Grey of Groby
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by
writ of acceleration
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, married Catherine Charteris Wemyss in 1824, and had:
**
George Harry Booth-Grey, his successor
**Margaret Henrietta Maria (1825–1852), married Henry John
Milbank
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Hi ...
*Henrietta Charlotte (1799–1866), married
James Thomas Law
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Life
He was eldest son of George Henry Law, the bishop of Bath and Wells, and Jane, daughter of General James Whorwood Adeane, MP, of Bab ...
(a priest; son of
George Henry Law
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Born at the lodge of Peterhouse, Cambridge, of which his father Edmund Law (who later became Bishop of ...
,
Bishop of Chester
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The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the C ...
and
of Bath and Wells)
*Maria (17 December 1800 – 4 May 1821)
*Jane (1804–1877), married
John Walsh (later Baron Ormathwaite).
*Henry Booth
On Stamford's death at
Enville Hall
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The house has a 16th and 17th-century U-shaped core formed by the hall range and two flanking wings enclosing a south facin ...
in 1845, his senior titles devolved upon his grandson,
George Grey
Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer. He served in a succession of governing positions: Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Go ...
who succeeded as the 7th and 3rd Earl, since his father who was summoned as the
8th Baron Grey of Groby in 1832 had predeceased him in 1835.
See also
*
Dunham Massey
Dunham Massey is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The parish includes the villages of Sinderland Green, Dunham Woodhouses and Dunham Town, along with Dunham Massey Hall and Park, formerly th ...
*
Earl of Warrington
References
External links
www.burkespeerage.com
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