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he continued in office under Earl 



11, carrying measures for stamping out the 

 ciii ill- plague, tor amending the Parliamentary 

 Maths Aft, .-mil fur Mispending the 1 1 aliens Corpus 



in 1 1. -1.111.1 at the tune of the Fenian activity. 

 On th- defeat of the RoMell-GUcUtone ministry 

 in isiiti upon I In- reform question, Grey's official 



r dosed ; hut In- continued to Hit in parliament 

 until 1874, when lie finally retired from public life. 

 lie ,lied ,-it his seat of Falloden, near Alnwick, Sep 

 icinlier 9, 1882. His grandson and successor, SIR 

 l.t>\\ \i:i GUKY (horn lH(i'2), studied at Oxford, 



ne Kadical M.I', for part of Northumberland in 

 and in 189*2-95 was Foreign Under-Secretary. 



Grey. Sn: GKOKUK, K.C. B., governor and com- 

 mander in-chief of New Zealand, was born at Lis- 

 hini, in Portugal in 1812. He was educated at the 

 Iliiyal Military College at Sandhurst, and on attain- 

 in- his captaincy undertook in 1837 the explora- 

 tion of the interior of Australia. In September 

 1838 he organised another expedition to explore 

 the Swan River district. He returned to England 

 in 1840, and published his Journals of Two Expe- 

 - in Xtn-tli->ri\sti'rn and Western Australia. 



His enterprise and ability obtained for him, un- 



asked, in 1841, from Lord'J. Russell, then Colonial 



Secretary, the post of governor of South Australia. 



In 1846 he was made governor of New Zealand. 



Both here and in Australia his first task was to 



acipiire the language of the natives, with whom 



he became more popular than any preceding 



governor. His government appeared to the 



authorities at home to be so wise and concilia- 



tory that in 1848 he was made K.C.B. (civil), and 



in 1854 was appointed governor and commander- 



in -chief of the Cape of Good Hope. The task of 



allaying the asperities and irritation left by the 



Kaffir war demanded high powers of statesman- 



ship ; drey was, however, equal to the occasion. 



Industry revived, and brighter days began to dawn 



upon the coloiiy. In 1858, however, the Colonial 



Office interfered with measures which he considered 



necessary, and he threw up his post and came to 



England. Public opinion at the Cape was so 



strongly manifested in his favour that he was 



requested by the government to resume his 



governorship. On the breaking out of the Indian 



mutiny Grey sent every soldier he could spare to 



the assistance of the Indian government, and 



received the acknowledgments of the British 



government and parliament for his promptitude 



and energy. In 1861 he was again appointed 



governor of New Zealand, in the hope that he 



would bring the war then raging in the colony to 



a satisfactory conclusion. The natives received 



him with joy and veneration, and he succeeded in 



bringing about pacific relations with the Maoris. 



He ir-i-ried |,j s office and came to England in 



lMi7, but afterwards returned to the colonies. 



Grey accepted the office of Superintendent of 



Auckland in 1ST'), with a seat in the Legislature, 



and he strongly but fruitlessly opposed the Aboli- 



tion iif the Provinces Act. After its passing his 



office of superintendent ceased ; but in 1877 he 



hec.une premier of New Zealand, and carried 



various acts of great practical utility. Grey had 



almost unbounded influence with the Maori chiefs, 



which lie used in cultivating friendly relations 



between the natives and the whin- 'population. 



He reined the premiership in 1884, having left 



an indelible mark upon the history of New Zealand. 



He published Journals of DtKOWry in Austrn/in 



( 1841 ), Polynesian MytMotOffjf ( 1 8.Vi ), and Proverln'nl 



X'li/tiiffs of the Ancestors of the New Zealand Ruce 



( 1858). Died 19th Septemler 1898. 



drey, LADY JANK, the 'nine days' queen,' was 

 horn at Bradgate, Leicestershire, in October 1537. 



She was the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, Mar- 

 quis of Dorset, who in l.v>| became Duke of Suffolk, 

 and of Lady Frances Brandon. The latter was the 

 daughter of Charles Brandon, Ouke of Suffolk, by 

 Mary, younger sister of Henry VIII., and widow 

 of 1,0111- XII. of France. Laxly Jane was brought 

 up rigorously by her parents, every petty fault 

 punished with 'pinches, nips, and ilm;' but 

 Ay liner (q.v.), her tutor, afterwards Bishop of 

 London, endeared himself to her by his gentleness, 

 and under him she made extraordinary progress, 

 especially in languages Latin, GreeK, French, 

 Italian, and Hebrew. Roger Ascham tells how 

 in December 1550 he found her reading Plato's 

 Pkcedo in the original, while the rest of the family 

 were hunting. She also sang and played well, and 

 was versed in other feminine accomplishment**. 

 In 1553, after Somerset's fall, the Duke of North- 

 umberland, foreseeing the speedy death of the \xty- 

 king Edward VI., determined to change the suc- 

 cession and secure it to his own family. Lady 

 Jane, not sixteen years old, was therefore married, 

 strongly against her wish, to Lord Guildford 

 Dudley, Northumberland's fourth son, on 21st 

 May 1553 ; and on 9th July, three days after 

 Edward's death, the council informed her that his 

 ' plan ' had named her as his successor. On the 

 19th, the brief usurpation over, she found herself 

 a prisoner in the Tower ; and four months later, 

 pleading guilty of high-treason, she was sentenced 

 to death. She spurned the idea of forsaking Pro- 

 testantism for love of life, and bitterly condemned 

 Northumberland's recantation : ' Woe worth him ! 

 he hath brought me and our stock in most miser- 

 able calamity by his exceeding ambition.' Queen 

 Mary might have been merciful ; but Suffolk's 

 participation in Wyatt's rebellion sealed the doom 

 of his daughter, who on 12th February 1554 was 

 beheaded on Tower Hill. She was ' nothing at all 

 abashed, neither with fear of her own death, which 

 then approached, neither with the sight of the 

 dead carcass of her husband, when it was brought 

 into the chapel a sight to her no less than death.' 

 From the scaffold she made a speech : ' The fact, 

 indeed, against the queen's highness was unlawful, 

 and the consenting thereto by me ; but touching 

 the procurement and desire thereof by me or on my 

 behalf, I do wash mv hands thereof in innocency. 

 ... I die a true Christian woman.' With Lord 

 Guildford she is buried in the Tower church of Sfc 

 Peter ad Vincula. 

 See the articles 

 EDWARD VI. and 

 MARY ; also The 

 Chronicle of 

 Queen Jane, 

 edited by J. G. 

 Nichols for the 

 Camden Society 

 (1850). 



Greybeards 



are big-bellied, 

 narrow-necked 

 stoneware jugs 

 or bottles, made 

 in Flanders about 

 the beginning of 

 the 17th century, 

 and BO called 



from generally Greybeard, 



having a gro- 

 tesque head, with a large, square-cut beard, 

 modelled on the short neck. The face was a Pro- 

 testant burlesque of Cardinal Bellarmine's. 



Grey Friars. See FRIAR, FRANCIS* AN. 



Greyhound, a breed of groat antiquity, the 

 only breed of dog which has retained its original 



