Sir Charles Edward Grey GCH (1785 – 1 June 1865) was an English judge and colonial governor. He was a younger son of Ralph William Grey of

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House, Earsdon, Northumberland, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Brandling MP, of Gosforth House, Northumberland.Katherine Prior, ‘Grey, Sir Charles Edward (1785–1865)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200
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/ref> Grey was educated at Eton, followed by

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, graduating in 1806, and elected a fellow of

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in 1808. He was called to the bar in 1811, and appointed a commissioner of bankruptcy in 1817. In 1820 he was appointed a Judge in the Supreme Court of Madras and knighted, serving until his transfer to be Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of Bengal from 1825 to 1832. In 1835, Grey was made a

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and awarded

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(GCH) in 1836. He was the elected Member of Parliament for the constituency of Tynemouth and North Shields from 1838 to 1841. In 1841 he was appointed

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and the

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(covering St Lucia, Trinidad, Tobago and St Vincent) and in 1846 was appointed

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. He retired to England in 1853. He died in Tunbridge Wells in 1865 and was buried in

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. In April 1821, before his departure for Madras, he married Elizabeth (1801–1850), second daughter of Revd Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise, Bt, of Idsworth Park, Hampshire. They had four sons and four daughters.

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