GREY 



Thenceforward out of office, he re- 

 mained, however, an active figure 

 in public life, and his age did not 

 prevent him from strongly oppos- 

 ing Home Rule. He died at 

 Howick, Oct. 9, 1894, his successor 

 being his nephew Albert. He 

 wrote several books on political 

 questions, one being a defence of 

 his colonial policy. 



Grey, ALBERT GEORGE GREY, 4ra 

 EARL (1851-1917). British admini- 

 strator. Born in St. James's 

 ^ Palace, Nov. 



28, 1851, the 

 4 son of General 

 vj Charles Grey, 

 H !P' Wm 1 private secre- 

 tary to Queen 

 Victoria, he 

 was educated 

 at Harrow and 

 Cambridge. He 



4th Earl Grey, was M.P. for S. 

 British administrator Northumber- 

 *" land 1880-85, 



and Northumberland (Tyneside) 

 1885-86. A great traveller, he 

 was in S. Africa in 1894 when 

 his uncle died, and he succeeded 

 to the earldom. He became ad- 

 ministrator of Rhodesia in 1896, 

 and was a director of the 

 South African Company, 1898- 

 1904. From 1904 to 1911 he was 

 governor-general of Canada. On 

 his return to England, Earl Grey 

 threw himself into public work 

 with zest, two of his chief projects 

 being Dominion House, and the 

 Public House Trust. He was also 

 keenly interested in agricultural 

 reform, and worked for an Irish 

 Convention. He died Aug. 29,1917. 

 See Albert, Fourth Earl Grey : A 

 Last Word, Harold Begbie, 1917. 



Grey of Fallodon, EDWARD, 

 IST VISCOUNT (b. 1862). British 

 statesman. Born April 25, 1862, 

 he belonged to the family of which 

 Earl Grey was the head. He was 

 educated at Winchester and Balliol 

 College, Oxford, and in 1882, 

 having lost his father, Lieut. -Col. 

 G. H. Grey, he succeeded his grand- 

 father, Sir George Grey, the Liberal 

 politician, in the family baronetcy 

 and estates, the former dating from 

 1814. In 1885 he was returned to 

 Parliament as Liberal M.P. for 

 Berwick-on-Tweed, and his con- 

 nexions brought him to the notice 

 of Gladstone, who is reported to 

 have predicted for him a great poli- 

 tical future. He had not, however, 

 taken any prominent part in debate 

 when, in 1892, he was made under- 

 secretary for foreign affairs, an 

 office in which he acquitted L;*nself 

 well for three years. 



During the ten years in opposi- 

 tion the Liberals began to look upon 

 Grey as one of their leaders, and the 

 South African War gave him a cer- 



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tain prominence. In 1905 Campbell- 

 Bannerman chose him as foreign 

 minister. In that office he remained 

 for eleven years, but all he did in 

 the first eight was dwarfed by his 

 activities in 1914. 



It fell to him to conduct the last 

 negotiations with Germany, and 

 those with France, in July and 



August, 1914, and to explain the 

 British position to the House of 

 Commons and the country. Cer- 

 tainly in those days he strove hard 

 for peace, and his case at the mo- 

 ment was so convincing tnat he 

 had no difficulty in committing 

 Britain to the struggle with the full 

 assent of the people. He remained 

 in office, quietly discharging his 

 duties, during the earlier part of the 

 war, and also after the Coalition 

 government was formed ; but in 

 Dec., 1916, he resigned with 

 Asquith. Already a K.G., an 

 unusual honour for a commoner, 

 an earldom was conferred on him 

 July 6, 1916, which at his request 

 was altered to a viscounty. In 1919 

 his eyesight became impaired, but 

 it improved later. His first wife 

 died in 1906, and in 1922 he married 

 Lady Glenconner In early life he 

 was a fine tennis player, and 

 throughout fly-fishing, on which 

 he wrote a book, was his main 

 hobby. His residence, Fallodon 

 Hall, was burned down in April, 

 1917. 



Grey had many of the character- 

 istics of his lifelong friend, Asquith. 

 Personally of the most scrupulous 

 honour, he was yet rather inclined, 

 in the face of difficulties, to take the 

 line of least resistance. His strong 

 position with the Liberals was due 

 to an appearance of strength, to a 

 certain dignity and reserve, espe- 

 cially in speech, and still more to a 

 constant and obvious indifference 



GREY 



to office. All recognized him as a 

 patriot and a gentleman, although 

 not a statesman of the type of Pitt. 

 See The Foreign Policy of Sir E. 

 Grey, Gilbert Murray, 1915. 



A. W. Holland 



Grey, SIR GEORGE (1799-1882). 

 British politician. A son of Sir 

 George Grey and a grandson of 

 Charles, 1st 

 Earl Grey, he 

 was born at 

 Gibraltar and 

 educated by a 

 tutor and at 

 Oriel College, 

 Oxford. He be- 

 came a barrist- 

 er, and in 1832, 

 as a Whig, en- 

 tered the House 

 of Commons 

 for Devonport. 

 From 1847 to 

 1852 he represented N. North- 

 umberland, and from 1853 to 1874 

 Morpeth. In 1834 and between 

 1835-39 Grey was under-secretary 

 for the colonies. In 1841 he was 

 for a short time chancellor of the 

 duchy, and when the Liberals came 

 into office in 1846 he was appointed 

 home secretary. He held that post 

 during the troubles of 1848, leaving 

 office in 1852. After a brief term as 

 colonial secretary he returned to 

 the home office in 1855 and was 

 there until 1858 and again from 

 1861 to 1866. He died at his resi- 

 dence, Fallodon, Sept. 9, 1882. 



Grey, SIR GEORGE (1812-98). 

 British administrator. Born at 

 Lisbon, April 12, 1812, son of an 

 officer killed at 

 Bada j o z, he 

 was educated 

 at Sandhurst. 

 In 1829 he 

 took up a com- 

 mission in the 

 83rd Foot, but 

 retired from 



the army in 



1839 with the Sir George Grey, 

 rank of cap- British administrator 

 tain. He took part in 1836 and 

 1839 in two adventurous expedi- 

 tions along the N.W. coast of 

 W. Australia and along the N. 

 and S. coast-line of Shark's Bay. 

 He was governor of S. Australia, 

 1841-i5; of New Zealand, 1845- 

 53, and 1861-67 ; of Cape Colony, 

 1853-60 ; and prime minister of 

 New Zealand, 1877-84. He was 

 made a K.C.B. in 1848, lived in 

 London after 1894, was made a 

 privy councillor, and, dying in 

 London, Sept. 20, 1898, was buried 

 in S. Paul's Cathedral. 



He wrote vocabularies of the 

 dialects of W. and S.W. Aus- 

 tralia, two volumes on his early 

 expeditions, and wrote also on 



