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Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford

Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford

English peer


Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (18 June 1715 – 30 May 1768) was an English peer, styled Lord Grey from 1720 to 1739.[1]

Portrait by Thomas Hudson
Enville Hall, Staffordshire
Dunham Massey Hall, Cheshire

Biography

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

In 1736, he married Lady Mary Booth, the only daughter and heiress of George, 2nd Earl of Warrington.[1] They had three children:[2]

In 1738, he represented Leicestershire in the British House of Commons, but entered the House of Lords in 1739 upon inheriting the earldom. On 3 March 1744, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, and on 8 March, of Staffordshire too.

He had inherited the Grey estates at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire and Enville in Staffordshire but decided to make Enville Hall the family seat. Bradgate House was therefore bricked up and the park there kept for hunting and game. The Enville grounds (750 acres) were significantly re-landscaped during the mid-18th century.[5] Mary, Countess of Stamford also inherited large estates at Dunham Massey in Cheshire and Stalybridge in Lancashire on the death of her father in 1758.

He died at Enville Hall and was succeeded in the earldom by his son (George) Harry, 5th Earl of Stamford (later Earl of Stamford and Warrington).

See also


References

  1. Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. 3. London: Longmans, Green. p. 400.
  2. "- Person Page 2820". thepeerage.com.
  3. "GREY, Hon. Booth (1740-1802), of Budworth Magna, Cheshire". The History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  4. "The History of the Enville & Stalybridge Estates". envilleestate.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2009.
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