George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1 October 1737 – 28 May 1819), styled Lord Grey from 1739 to 1768, was a
British
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nobleman
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, who additionally became a
peer of Great Britain as Earl of Warrington in 1796.
The eldest son and heir of
Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford
Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (18 June 1715 – 30 May 1768) was an English peer, styled Lord Grey from 1720 to 1739.
Harry Grey was born at Enville Hall, the eldest son of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford. He was educated at Rugby and Wes ...
by his wife Lady Mary, only daughter and heiress of
George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington
George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (2 May 1675 – 2 August 1758) was an English peer and landowner, who amassed a fine collection of silver.
Life
Born at Mere Hall, Cheshire, on 2 May 1675, the second son of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warri ...
, baptised on 21 October at Newtown Linford, Leicestershire. Educated at
Leicester School he went up to
Queens' College, Cambridge. where he matriculated in the Michaelmas term 1755, graduating MA in 1758.
Lord Grey served as Whig
MP for
Staffordshire from 1761 until 1768. On 22 September he was a Page of Honour at George III's coronation. Colonel of the Royal Chester Regiment of Militia from 1764, and Lord Lieutenant from 1783.
The Grey family owned large tracts of land at
Enville in Staffordshire and
Bradgate Park
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in Leicestershire, and his mother had inherited
Dunham Massey Hall
Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey in the district of Trafford, near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. During World War I it was temporarily used as the Stamford M ...
and land in Stalybridge. His father died in 1768 and his mother in 1772. He was created on 22 April 1796 the Baron Delamer of Dunham Massey, in the County of Chester, and Earl of Warrington.
On 28 May 1763, he married Lady Henrietta, second daughter of
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1 March 1709 – 1 May 1762), styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1716 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1716 to 1726, was a British peer and politician.
Portland was the son of Henry Bentinck, 1s ...
and the art collector
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785) was a British aristocrat, styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager Duchess of Por ...
, only daughter and heiress of Robert, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer at Stamford House, Whitehall, and registry office, Westminster, having nine children including:
* Lady Henrietta (1764-1826), married
John Chetwode
*
George Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford (1765-1845), his successor in the
family titles
* Lady Marie Booth Grey (1767-1767)
* Lady Maria (1769-1838), married John Cotes MP
* Lady Louisa Booth Grey (1771-1830)
* William Booth Grey (1773-1852)
* Anchitel Grey, a
prebendary
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(1774-1833)
* Henry Grey, a
naval commander (1776-1799)
* Lady Sophia (1777-1849), married her cousin,
Booth Grey, of
Ashton Hayes
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* Lady Amelia (1779-1849), married
John Lister Kaye
He succeeded to his father's
earldom
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in 1768. His brother-in-law,
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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, while
Prime Minister
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, suggested that Stamford should also become a
peer of Great Britain in addition to being an
English peer. He accepted an earldom in 1796 from Portland's successor
William Pitt the Younger
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, rather than the reported previous offer of a
marquessate
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; in the absence of there being another
duke
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dom in keeping with Grey family tradition (cf
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset (17 January 151723 February 1554), was an English courtier and nobleman of the Tudor period. He was the father of Lady Jane Grey, known as "the Nine Days' Queen".
Origins
He was born on ...
), Stamford deemed it better to preserve the memory of his grandmaternal family whose estates he had inherited. Thus he received the additional titles of Baron Delamer and
Earl of Warrington (in the
peerage of Great Britain) in recognition of the
Booth family.
He modernised the family's Staffordshire
seat at Enville to the design of Thomas Hope. He promoted the development of the town of
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 45,198 at the 2011 census. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the Pennines, east of Manche ...
(where he had appointed his cousin,
George Booth as
Rector
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) near
Manchester
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, on land inherited from the Earls of Warrington.
Enville and stalybridge estates
On his death at Enville Hall on 23 May 1819 he was succeeded by his eldest son, after his will was proven became 6th Earl of Stamford and 2nd Earl of Warrington.
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 t ...
References
External links
*''Burkes Peerage'' (1939 edition).
* Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (106th edition, 1999)
* The Complete Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, St Catherine's Press, 1949
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