610 iktnas of tbe 1Rofc, IRffle, an& Gun 



him. He had married as his third or fourth wife a 

 Hottentot woman, and probably did not care to bring 

 to England the only lady of colour who has ever had 

 the right to style herself an English Countess. But 

 neither by her nor by any of his other wives did he 

 leave legitimate issue, and on his decease in 1890 the 

 title and estates went begging till claimed by a distant 

 relative, William Grey, then Professor of Classics and 

 Philosophy at Codrington College, Barbadoes. Mr. 

 Grey, who is an M.A. of Oxford, established his claim 

 to the satisfaction of the House of Lords, and is now 

 ninth Earl of Stamford. An heir was born in 1896, the 

 present Lord Grey of Groby, and there is therefore good 

 prospect of the title once more descending in direct 

 succession. The present Earl's tastes incline rather to 

 religion than sport he was admitted into the Order of 

 Diocesan Readers by the Bishop of London shortly 

 after his accession to the title ; but sooner or later one 

 may confidently expect that the hereditary sporting 

 instincts of the Greys will crop up again, and Bradgate 

 and Enville will once more be names as famous among 

 sportsmen as they were under the brilliant reign of 

 the seventh Earl. 



