Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (18 June 1715 – 30 May 1768) was an English peer, styled Lord Grey from 1720 to 1739.

Biography

Harry Grey was born at Enville Hall, the eldest son of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford. He was educated at

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and

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. In 1736, he married Lady Mary Booth, the only daughter and heiress of George, 2nd Earl of Warrington. They had three children: *

George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1 October 1737 – 28 May 1819), styled Lord Grey from 1739–68, was a British nobleman who succeeded his father as the Earl of Stamford. In 1796, his maternal grandfather's peerage titles Earl o ...

(1737–1819) *Hon.

Booth Grey Booth Grey (15 August 1740 – 4 March 1802) was an English politician who served in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1784. Grey was the son of Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford, and his wife Lady Mary Booth daughter of George Booth, 2nd Earl ...

(1740–1802), the MP for

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from 1774 to 1784, married, with a son and daughter *Hon. John Grey (1743 – 12 July 1802), married and had issue In 1738, he represented

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in the

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, but entered the

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in 1739 upon inheriting the

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. On 3 March 1744, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of

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, and on 8 March, of

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too. He had inherited the Grey estates at

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in Leicestershire and Enville in Staffordshire but decided to make Enville Hall the family seat. Bradgate House was therefore bricked up and the

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there kept for hunting and game. The Enville grounds (750 acres) were significantly re-landscaped during the mid-18th century. Mary, Countess of Stamford also inherited large estates at

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in Cheshire and

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in Lancashire on the death of her father in 1758. He died at Enville Hall and was succeeded in the

by his son (George) Harry, 5th Earl of Stamford (later Earl of Stamford and Warrington).

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www.burkespeerage.com
1715 births 1768 deaths 18th-century English nobility Grey, Harry Grey, Lord Deputy lieutenants of Lincolnshire Deputy lieutenants of Staffordshire Grey, Harry Grey, Lord People educated at Rugby School People educated at Westminster School, London

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