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GRETTON—GREVILLE—GREY. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, on the Mediterranean station – 13 May, 1845, as Additional, to the 50, bearing the flag in South America of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield – and, 19 March, 1846, to the 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, with whom he is at present serving on the latter station. – Fred. Dufaur.

 GRETTON. 

, born 1 Feb. 1799, is son of the late Rev. Walthall Gretton, Vicar of Audlem, Cheshire, by Ann, second daughter of Marshall Wright, Fort-Major of Dartmouth Castle.

This officer entered the Navy, 17 May, 1810, as a Volunteer, on board the 38, Capt. Sir Peter Parker, under whom he took part in the ensuing reduction of the Isle of France, and afterwards in different skirmishes with the enemy’s fleet off Toulon. Removing, as Midshipman, in the early part of 1813, to the 120, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, he continued to serve for a considerable time at the blockade of that port, where, on 5 Nov. in the same year, and on 13 Feb. 1814, he witnessed Sir Edw. Pellew’s two actions. He subsequently joined – in 1814, the 20, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, employed in the Bay of Biscay and off the coast of Ireland – in 1819 (three years previously to which period he had passed his examination), the 42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, whom he accompanied to South America and Copenhagen – in 1822, the 46, commanded on the West India and Mediterranean stations by Capt, Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt – in 1824, the  42, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, in which frigate he returned to South America and, in 1827, as Acting-Lieutenant, the  28, Capts. Robt. Tait and Michael Seymour, also on the South American station. He came home in 1829 on board the latter ship, of which he had been confirmed a Lieutenant 3 March, 1828. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which service he was employed from 1 May, 1838, until 1841.

Lieut. Gretton married, 9 Jan. 1834, Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Henry Peach, of Derby.

 GREVILLE. 

, born ,24 Aug. 1794, at Ebberston, co. York, is second son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Henry Francis Greville, by Catherine, second daughter of Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart. He is grandson of Fulke Greville, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Bavaria; nephew of Capt. Wm. Fulke Greville, R.N., who died in 1837; and first-cousin of the late Viscountess Combermere. His great-grandfather, who married a grand-daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, was the second son of the fifth Lord Brooke, ancestor of the present Earl of Brooke and Warwick; and his only brother, George Macarteney, died a Major in the Army, in India, in 1834. One of his uncles married Lady Charlotte Bentinck, daughter of the third Duke of Portland.

This officer entered the Navy, early in 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham, employed off Cape Finisterre and in the Mediterranean. On next joining the 38, Capt. Robt. Mends, he took part, as Midshipman, in many active operations on the north coast of Spain, where on one occasion he was shot through the leg in a boat affair. After witnessing the capture, 6 April, 1809, of the French 40-gun frigate Le Niemen, and serving for a short time on board the 110, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton, Mr. Greville became attached to the 22, Capt. Phipps Hornby; under whom, on 13 March, 1811, he shared in the memorable action off Lissa, where a British squadron, carrying in the whole 156 guns and 879 men, completely routed, after a battle of six hours, and a loss to the  of 13 killed and 33 wounded, a Franco-Venetian armament, whose force amounted to 284 guns and men. He subsequently removed in succession to the and  38’s, and  74, in the two former of which ships, under Capts. Philip Carteret and Jas. Sanders, he saw much service on the Boulogne and North American stations; as he also did on the Chesapeake and up the Potomac, in command of the, tender to the , Sir John Borlase Warren’s flag-ship. Being appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 20 July, 1813, of the 44, Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan, he continued to be employed with that officer until wrecked, on the north end of the island of Barbuda, during a violent hurricane, 6 Nov. following. After a sojourn of four months at the latter place, Mr. Greville, whose first commission bears date 4 Jan. 1814, retiimed to England on board the 64. His subsequent appointments were – for a short period in 1814, to the and  frigates – 31 July, 1820, as First, to the  26, Capt. Fairfax Moresby – and, 6 July, 1821, to the  74, Capt. Thos. Brown. While borne on the books of the two latter ships, he appears to have had command of the tender, in which he carried despatches to Calcutta, and cruized with success against the slave-trade on the east coast of Africa. He was promoted to the command, 19 July, 1822, of the 18, on the St. Helena station, whence he returned to England, and was paid off in Feb. 1823. He next, from June, 1824, until March, 1827, officiated as Inspecting Commander of the Norfolk district of Coast Guard; and he was lastly, from 1 May, 1827, until put out of commission 15 Jan. 1831, employed in the 10, on the Cape station, whither he was sent with treasure. He acquired his present rank 27 Aug. 1832.

Capt. Greville held the office, in 1817, of Private Secretary, and Captain of Charles Fort, Barbadoes, under Gen. Viscount Combermere. He married, in June, 1816, Harriet, only child of the late Gen. Despard, by Harriet Anne, sister of Sir Thos. Dalrymple Hesketh, Bart., of Rufford Hall, co. Lancaster, by whom he has issue one son, a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and five daughters. – Hallett and Robinson.

 GREY. 

, born 2 Jan. 1817, is second son of Lieut.-Col. Hon. Wm. Grey (brother of the late Premier), who died 10 Aug. 1817, by Maria, daughter of General Wm. Shirreff; and first-cousin of His brother, Wm. Thos. Grey, Esq., is married to a daughter of the present Rear-Admiral Wm. H. Shirreff.

This officer entered the Navy, 3 April, 1829, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, stationed in South America, where, until Aug. 1832, he further served, latterly as Midshipman, in the  42, Capt. John Alex. Duntze, and 46, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave. During the next three years we find him employed in the North Sea and Mediterranean, on board the 74, and  84, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, and  60, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts. He then, in the 26, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, returned to South America, on which station he passed his examination 28 Jan. 1836, and served vmtil Nov. 1838. Obtaining his first commission 10 May, 1839, Mr. Grey was next appointed – 18 June following, as Additional, to the 104, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Robt. Stopford – on 10 Aug. and 3 Nov. in the same year, to the 84, and  18, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and John Windham Dalling, also in the Mediterranean – and, in the latter part of 1841, to the 110, and  120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. Codrington at Portsmouth. He was promoted to his present rank on the occasion of Her Majesty’s visit to that place, 7 March, 1842; and, since 12 Nov. 1846, has been in command of the 16, in the East Indies.

Commander Grey married, 23 April, 1844, Caroline Nesbit, daughter of the late Major Turner 