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  Earl of Stamford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title Earl of Stamford is an extinct title in the Peerage of England.
The Warrington titles became extinct on the death of the seventh Earl of Stamford and third Earl of Warrington in 1883.
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby (1623–1657) was the oldest son of the first earl, father of the second and a prominent supporter of parliamentry cause in the English Civil War.
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 STAMFORD - LoveToKnow Article on STAMFORD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He married Anne, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd earl of Exeter, the heiress of the borough and manor of Stamford, and in March 5628 was created earl of Stamford.
Stamford was chartered as a borough in 58.30 and as a city in 5894.
William, earl of Warenne, in 1275 permitted the burgesses to choose their chief officer or alderman, who was still sworn in at the manor court as late as 1615 and was first called " mayor " in 1663.
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 familytre - pafg21 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thomas Powys was born in 1594 in Shropshire.
Thomas Savile Earl of Sussex was born in 1590 in Sussex.
R Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin and Ailesbury was born in 1626 in Clackmannan, Perthshire.
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 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1654 – January 31, 1720), only son of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, succeeded his grandfather as 2nd earl of Stamford.
He took some part in resisting the arbitrary actions of Charles II, and was arrested in July 1685; then after his release he took up arms on behalf of William of Orange, after whose accession to the throne he was made a Privy Counsellor and Lord Lieutenant of Devon.
1739), a grandson of the first earl, from whom the later earls were descended.
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 Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the eldest son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
His signature on the death warrant indicates that he was a strong advocate for the execution of the King, because he signed after the President of the court John Bradshaw and before Oliver Cromwell, who was third to sign out of a total of fifty nine commisioners (judges).
A member of the Council of State under the Commonwealth, Lord Grey of Groby fought against the Scots in 1651 during the Third English Civil War.
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 Thomas Gresham - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Thomas Gresham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Thomas Gresham (~1519 - 21 November,1579) was an English merchant and financier who worked for King Edward VI of England and for Edward's half-sister Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Born in London and descended from an old Norfolk family, Gresham was the only son of Sir Richard Gresham, a leading London merchant, who for some time held the office of Lord Mayor, and who for his services as agent of Henry VIII in negotiating loans with foreign merchants received the honor of knighthood.
Notices of Gresham appear in Thomas Fuller's Worthies of England (1662) and Ward's Gresham Professors; but a full account of him, as well as of the history of the Exchange and of Gresham College appears in J. Burgoir's Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham (2 vols., 1839).
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 2820
     Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford was born in 1654.
She was the daughter of Sir George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington.
She married Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford, son of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford and Dorothy Wrighte, in May 1736.
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 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford.
1654 - January 31, 1720), only son of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, succeeded his grandfather as 2nd earl of Stamford.
He took some part in resisting the arbitrary actions of Charles II, and was arrested in July 1685; then after his release he took up arms on behalf of William of Orange, after whose accession to the throne he was made a Privy Counsellor and Lord-Lieutenant of Devonshire.
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 Office-Holders: Custodes Rotulorum
In 1689 the 2nd Baron Delamere was appointed lieutenant and custos.
In 1672 the 3rd Earl of Manchester was appointed lieutenant and custos.
In 1699 the 2nd Earl of Burlington was appointed lieutenant and custos.
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 Encyclopedia: First Lord of Trade
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (July 22, 1621– January 21, 1683) was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.
Thomas boob, 2nd Baron pop (1738-1786), British politician and statesman, was the son of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham.
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (24 February 1732 - 30 June 1800), the British politician after whom the city of Sydney, Australia, is named, was born at Frognal House, near Chislehurst in Kent.
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Transcript of the divorce proceedings of Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of ...
Transcript of the divorce proceedings of Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford
Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London for suspected treason from 1685-1686, and his accusations against his wife probably date from this time.
Thomas Exton is given as the Dean of Arches.
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 Duchy of Lancaster
Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (1758) 1758-1762
Thomas Villiers, 1st Lord Hyde of Hindon, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1776) 1771-1782
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie 1984-1985
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 Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (22 January 1826 - 15 November 1904), English statesman, eldest son of the 1st Baron, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honors in 1846.
In 1857, he was returned to the House of Commons in the Liberal interest for Penryn and Falmouth, which constituency he continued to represent until he became a peer on the death of his father in 1866.
He was created Viscount Baring of Lee in the county of Kent and Earl of Northbrook in the county of Southampton.
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 The DeGroff's and Related Families - pafg403 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Sir Edmund GREY 1st Earl of Kent was born 26 Oct 1416 and died 22 May 1490.
Henry BEAUFORT 2nd Earl of Somerset was born Oct 1401.
Thomas BEAUFORT 1st Earl of Dorset was born Jan 1377 and died 21 Dec 1426.
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 NPG 54; The House of Commons, 1833 (includes George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby (1798-1882), Statesman.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), Historian, poet and statesman.
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1802-1869), Statesman.
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 President of the Board of Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford (June 9, 1699 - January 8, 1702)
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford (1705 - June 12, 1711)
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth (August 31, 1772 - November 10, 1775) (also Secretary of State for the Colonies)
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 stpetersburg.ca - Stamford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Advocate - Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, wife Cathy and son Dannel...
Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, wife Cathy and son Dannel smile Tuesday as the incumbent wins his fourth term.
STAMFORD -- The state Department of Public Health is taking a closer look at plans to build luxury homes on Erskine Road in response to concerns raised by state Sen. William Nickerson, R-Greenwich.
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Transcript of the divorce proceedings of Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of ...
Administrative/Biographical history: Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford (1653-1720), was married to Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of Sir Daniel Harvey, Ambassador to Constantinople, some time between 1673 and early 1675.
The Court of Arches was the consistory court belonging to the archbishop of Canterbury for the trial of spiritual causes, and heard cases relating to matrimonial affairs, correction of morals, parochial affairs, and defamation.
Scope and content/abstract: Transcript, probably made in the late 17th century, of the allegations made by Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, against his wife for adultery before the Court of Arches, under 35 articles.
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The latter William had four sons and two daughters; two of these sons were named Thomas, and as they were both living at the same time one was distinguished as "the fl" and the other as "the red." Thomas the red had four sons and four daughters.
Sir Edward Montage (afterwards Earl of Sandwich), who was Pepys's first cousin one remove (Pepys's grandfather and Montage's mother being brother and sister), was a true friend to his poor kinsman, and he at once held out a helping hand to the imprudent couple, allowing them to live in his house.
This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, 1687, and on August 24th the king declared in council that another parliament should be summoned for November 27th, 1688, but great changes took place before that date, and when the Convention Parliament was called together in January and February, 1689-90, Pepys found no place in it.
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 grey03
His successor Thomas (and younger sons) is reported by BP1934 to have been by Cecilia and his daughter Cicely (shown by BE1883 as his eldest daughter) is reported by TCP (Dudley) also to have been by Cecilia.
This meant that her daughter, Jane Grey, was in line for the throne of England, albeit certainly not at the top of that line.
Muriel Howard (dau of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk)
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: 1720   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace.
March 9 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d.
January 31 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor
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 President of the Board of Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth 1772-1775 (also Secretary of State for the Colonies)
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Lord Hawkesbury, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1796) 1786-1804 (also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster)
Richard le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty 1812-1818 (also Treasurer of the Navy[?])
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 THE RELIQUARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The same day the Earl of Foix gave to the hereauldes and minstrelles the som of five hundred frankes; and gave to the Duke of Tourayn's minstrells gounes of gold, furred with ermyne, valued at two hundred frankes.” The order subsequently became degenerated ; and in the 4 Hen.
Wells, too, was one of the Stamford “town music” or waits—minstrels in the pay of the corporation, who on state occasions played in scarlet cloaks and cocked hats and gold lace.
Wells shall not leave Stamford without a substantial recognition of his character and of his long services, and this feeling will no doubt be shared by the town and neighbourhood generally.
www.leziate.demon.co.uk /waits/waits/history/stamford%20simpson.htm   (3075 words)

  
 THOMAS GREY, 2ND MARQUESS OF DORSET (1477-1530) - Online Information article about THOMAS GREY, 2ND MARQUESS OF DORSET ...
Lord Thomas Grey, was beheaded in See also:
Protestant, was restored to the royal favour, and he died on the 19th of See also:
Baron Grey of Groby, and in 1628 his See also:
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He was vice-admiral under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the squadron which conveyed Charles II.
He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written on his tombstone, "Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late king."] was made Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that were objected against last night, their business was to be heard this day se'nnight.
The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price; the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge passed between them.
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 Ancestors of Earl Of Kent Thomas DE HOLLAND
Sir Thomas Holland, the second son of Robert, 1st Lord Holland, and Maud De La Zouche, was engaged, in 1340, in the English expedition into Flanders and sent, two years later, with Sir John D'Artevelle to Bayonne, to defend the Gascon frontier against the French.
Thomas had issue, by the Lady Joan (shortly afterwards Princess of Wales), two sons: Thomas, 2nd Earl of Kent and John, Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter.
Thomas married Countess Of Kent Joan PLANTAGENET, daughter of Earl Of Kent Edmund PLANTAGENET and Margaret De Liddell WAKE, in 1346.
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 STAMFORD, HENRY GREY - Online Information article about STAMFORD, HENRY GREY
John Grey, succeeded his grandfather, Henry Grey as See also:
At Stratton, in May 1643, his troops were beaten by the Royalists; driven into Exeter, Stamford was forced to surrender this city after a See also:
Commonwealth, Grey fought against the Scots in 1651, and in See also:
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 Encyclopedia: Baron Grey of Groby
On the death of the tenth Earl in 1976 all these titles became extinct.
George Harry Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford (1765–1845)
George Harry Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford (1827–1883)
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 JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Grey (Stamford) of Dunham Massey Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A very large collection of papers of the Grey family, Earls of Stamford, and their predecessors from Dunham Massey Hall near Altrincham, Cheshire.
The Grey family inherited Dunham Massey in the mid-18th century from the Booths, Earls of Warrington, who are also represented.
Among the papers of the 6th Earl of Stamford are colourful letters written by his son while on the Grand Tour in the 1820s.
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 Worldroots.com
Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury, son
Barry, 2nd Earl of Barrymore and Dorothy Ferrar
Francis Gerard, of Flamberds, 2nd Baronet and Isabel Cheke
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