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  Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Descended from a long line of Northumbrian gentry, Grey was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected to parliament at the age of 22 in 1786.
In 1806 Grey, now Lord Howick due to his father's elevation to the peerage as Earl Grey, became a part of the Ministry of All the Talents (a coalition of Foxite Whigs, Grenvillites, and Addingtonites) as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Charles Poulett Thomson, the President of the Board of Trade, and James Abercromby, the Master of the Mint, join the Cabinet.
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 Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sir Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, K.B. 23rd October 1729–14th November 1807) was one of the most important British generals of the eighteenth century.
In acknowledgment of his service, Grey was raised in January 1801 to the peerage as Baron Grey of Alnwick.
Charles Grey was the father of the British statesman and prime minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, after whom Earl Grey Tea is named.
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 AllRefer.com - Grey, Charles Grey, 2d Earl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Elected to Parliament in 1786, he was one of those appointed to manage the impeachment of Warren Hastings.
He succeeded (1806) Charles James Fox as foreign secretary in the "ministry of all talents" and Whig leader of the House of Commons, putting through the measure to abolish the African slave trade (1807).
As prime minister (1830–34) he secured the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832 (see under Reform Acts) by threatening to force William IV to create enough Whig peers to carry it in the House of Lords.
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 Earl Grey
Charles Fox was opposed to the formation of this group as he feared it would lead to a split the Whig Party.
Grey argued that one of the basic principles established by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 was the freedom of elections to the House of Commons.
Grey opposed the renewal of war with France in 1815 and denounced the Gagging Acts imposed in 1817.
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 Earl Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title Earl Grey was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1806 for General Sir Charles Grey.
Earl Grey tea is named for the second Earl, who served also as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Grey Cup is named for the fourth Earl, who served as Governor-General of Canada.
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 Earl Grey
Grey sided with the Foxites and became committed to a reform of parliament.
In 1807 Grey was responsible for steering the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade through the House of Commons; he also introduced a Bill that would have allowed Catholics to reach the highest ranks in the army and navy but the king insisted that it should be withdrawn.
Grey had misjudged the temper of both Houses of Parliament and came into conflict with William IV when he had to ask for enough new peers to be created to carry the Bill.
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 Lord Grey - 1832 Reform Act
Grey was elected to Parliament in 1786 as a young man of 22 and was expected to follow the Tory traditions of his family.
Grey was the Parliamentary spokesman of the Society and in 1793 and 1797 he spoke in the House in favour of reform - on both occasions being inevitably defeated by large majorities.
Grey's reformist doctrines can thus be seen, not as an attempt to set out on the road to democracy, but as a means to strengthen the power of his own class, the aristocracy.
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 Charles Grey Biography / Biography of Charles Grey Biography Biography
Charles Grey was born at Fallodon, Northumberland, on March 13, 1764, the son of Col. Charles Grey (later, 1st Earl Grey) and heir to his father's elder brother, Sir Henry Grey of Howick.
The Greys were an ancient Northumberland family, and the young Charles received an aristocratic education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Grey believed that by carrying timely reform he had saved the country from revolution, and he may well have been right.
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 Grey Memorial
Grey was killed in the advance on Lutain Wood, and buried on the battlefield by his men.
The Grey family made the grave permanent after the war, and while many isolated graves such as this once existed on the Normandy battlefields, most were concentrated into military cemeteries post 1945.
The Greys resisted this, and the memorial remains an official war grave to this day and known as the Livry Isolated Grave.
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 Encyclopedia: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (3 August 1791 - 21 October 1860) was an English politician and a prominent Conservative.
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham (1799 - September 19, 1841) was the first Governor of the united Province of Canada.
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 CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL GREY FACTS AND INFORMATION
Grey was noted for advocating parliamentary reform and Catholic_emancipation.
In 1806 Grey, now Lord Howick due to his father's elevation to the peerage as Earl Grey, became a part of the Ministry_of_All_the_Talents (a coalition of Foxite Whigs, Grenvillites, and Addingtonites) as First_Lord_of_the_Admiralty.
His ministry was a notable one, seeing passage of the Reform_Act_1832, which finally saw the reform of the House of Commons, and the abolition_of_slavery throughout the British_Empire in 1833.
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 Earl Grey
The Grey family is one of great antiquity, Sir Thomas Grey, a knight who died in 1402, was married to Jane, daughter of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.
Charles Grey, born 1729, was a distinguished Commanding Army Officer during the American Revolutionary War (1777), also served in the war with France (1794) and was raised to the Peerage in 1801 as Baron Grey of Howick.
Lord Grey was further advanced in the Peerage to Viscount Howick and Earl Grey in 1806.
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GREY (V.O.) An eight-year old girl had witnessed a murder whilst playing in the street, and the particular person who I was working for at the time demanded she be silenced.
GREY (cont'd) (V.O.) As she smiled at me, completely oblivious to the fact that I was her angel of death, something clicked inside me. My conscience.
GREY (V.O.) I was all ready this afternoon to take him somewhere secluded and pop him then and there, but I was late for work, and it wouldn't be moral to skip that just to go and kill someone.
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 Charles Grey
GREY, Charles, British soldier, born in England, 23 October, 1729; died 14 November, 1807.
Grey approached stealthily, and, ordering the flints to be taken from the guns, attacked the patriots with the bayonet, defearing them with great slaughter.
He was raised to the peerage in 1801, received the title of Earl Grey in 1807, and was the father of the celebrated English statesman of that name.
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Charles Grey and his crack counter-terrorism team, stepping outside the legal system when necessary, do whatever it takes to help those in need.
The GREY SQUAD is composed of a group of rowdy individuals, most with a military or law enforcement background.
Charles was impressed by the youths’ ability to circumvent the security features he had created and installed in his car.
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 Grey, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Grey entered Parliament in 1786 and soon became prominent among the aristocratic Whigs, led by Charles James Fox, in opposition to William Pitt's conservative government.
In 1806 Grey became first lord of the Admiralty in Lord Grenville's government, and, when Fox died the same year, Grey became foreign secretary and leader of the Foxite Whigs.
Usually known as the prince of Wales, Charles is also earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick, and baron of Renfrew, among other titles.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 3449
Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent was the son of Henry Grey and Margaret St.
Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent was the son of Henry Grey and Margaret St.
Henry Grey was the son of Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent and Anne Blennerhassett.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Charles Grey
Charles Grey entered politics in 1786 as member of Parliament.
Ironic that the name of the prime minister to King William IV is best known around the world for a blend of Indian and Sri Lankans tea delicately scented with the citrus flavour of bergamot.
The recipe for "Earl Grey" is said to have been given by a Chinese man to a British soldier during the Opium War (1839-42) in gratitude for saving his live.
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Grey's reluctance to leave his daughter with a stranger was understandable, but Charles was not willing to risk exposing himself as a mutant.
Charles walked downstairs and found a pot of soup with dumplings on the stove and a dish of chicken, rice and almonds in the oven.
Charles should have told John Grey his daughter was awake, but that she needed to come back daily or weekly for more therapy, and used that as an excuse for further lessons.
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 Charles, Earl Grey (1764-1845)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Charles Grey held several titles during his life: he was the second Earl, but also was called Baron Grey between 1801 and 1806, and between 1806-07 was Viscount Howick.
Grey did not speak in parliament for two years but when he did, it was to oppose the Act of Union with Ireland.
On the resignation of the Duke of Portland in October 1809, Spencer Perceval became PM and offered positions in his ministry's Cabinet to Grey and Lord Grenville.
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 Grey, Charles Grey, 1st Earl, Viscount Howick --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Grey wrote more than 80 books during his career and is credited with helping to mold the literary genre known as the Western.
One of the ablest 19th-century administrators in the distant colonies of the British Empire, Sir George Grey tried to deal fairly with the struggles of native peoples to protect their land from British settlers.
She was the innocent victim of conspiracies by her father and other nobles to secure power for themselves by putting her on the throne.
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 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Veteran actor Charles Gray dies
Actor Charles Gray, best known for playing arch-villain Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, has died aged 71.
A strapping 6ft 2in, he made his professional debut as Charles the Wrestler in an adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Charles was a great actor in a memorable film."
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Brave new world or miniature menace? Why Charles fears grey goo nightmare
The prince has raised the spectre of the "grey goo" catastrophe in which sub-microscopic machines designed to share intelligence and replicate themselves take over and devour the planet.
He is reported to have called upon the Royal Society - the oldest scientific club in the world - to discuss the "enormous environmental and social risks" of a technology which depends on the new ability to manipulate materials a few atoms at a time.
At the bottom of the grey goo alarm is a document from a non-governmmental organisation called the Etc group, which published a precautionary report called the Big Down, later to be read by Prince Charles.
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 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 44   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Grey, Albert Henry George, Earl Grey 4th, b.
Grey, George Harry, Earl of Stamford 5th, b.
Grey, George Harry, Lord Grey of Groby, b.
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 Earl Grey
Sir Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey (November 28, 1851 - August 29, 1917) was the ninth Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911.
He is best known for having donated the Grey Cup to the Canadian Football League in 1909.
He welcomed Canada's first important foreign royal visit (from Prince Fushima of Japan) in 1907, improved Rideau Hall (the governor-general's residence), and suggested the idea of a great railway hotel in Ottawa - the origin of the Château Laurier.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 4562
Richard Charles Edward Grey is the son of Sir Paul Francis Grey and Agnes Mary Blundell.
Demitri Grey is the son of Richard Charles Edward Grey and Hilary Forbes.
Malcolm Grey is the son of Richard Charles Edward Grey and Hilary Forbes.
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 Famous Northumbrians Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB (page 120)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Born at Falloden (near Embleton) as Charles Grey, he was the son of a British general who had won several battles in the American Wars of Independence.
Grey's Monument was erected in the heart of the City of Newcastle as a testimony to the Earl's popularity amongst the people.
A relative of the 2nd Earl Grey, Edward Grey was born at Howick and also became a great British statesman.
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 The truth behind Charles' grey goo fears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A concerned Charles has urged the Royal Society to launch an investigation into the perceived dangers of the technology.
Staff from Intel and the university are collaborating on ubiquitous computing projects, developing proactive computers that anticipate user needs and act on their behalf using learning technology and probabilistic methods such as Bayesian nets or Stochastic models.
For doommongers such as Prince Charles, the flipside of this vision of the future is that users could be relegated from a position of calling the shots to being stuck in the middle like a glorified input/output device.
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 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845), Prime Minister
Grey was the leader of the Whigs from 1806 to 1834.
He led the party through the triumph of the Reform Act (1832) which extended the vote to the middle classes and gave representation to Britain's growing industrial towns.
A follower of Fox, Grey had argued for constitutional reform since entering Parliament in 1786.
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