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GREY—GRIERSON—GRIEVE. , of Carriff, co. Armagh. – Hallett and Robinson.

 GREY, C.B.

, born 23 Aug. 1805, is third son of the late Earl Grey (who held the office of Prime Minister from 1830 until 1834), by Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of Lord Ponsonby. He is brother of the present Earl Grey, H.M.’s Secretary of State for the Colonies; also of Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Chas. Grey, M.P.; and of Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, R.N. One of his uncles, the Hon. Sir Geo. Grey, Bart., K.C.B. Capt. R.N., who died in 1828, was Resident Commissioner of Portsmouth Dockyard, and Marshal in the island of Barbadoes. His first cousin,, is a Commander R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Jan. 1819; and while serving as Midshipman of the 46, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, contributed in the boats under Lieut. Michael Quin, to the brilliant destruction, on the night of 23 March, 1824, of a 16-gun brig moored in a position of extraordinary strength alongside the walls of the fortress of Bona, in which was a garrison of 400 soldiers, who, from cannon and musket, kept up a tremendous fire almost perpendicularly on the deck. He was promoted, immediately on passing his examination, to a Lieutenancy, 7 April, 1825, in the 48, Capt. Sir Sam. John Brooke Pechell, stationed in the Mediterranean; whence we believe he returned home in the following Aug. on board the 20, Capt. Percy Grace. His next appointment was, on 26 Sept. 1825, to the 28, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, with whom he sailed for South America; on which station he obtained command, 17 April, 1827, of the Heeon 18. He acquired Post-rank 19 April, 1828, and was subsequently appointed – 25 Nov. 1830, to the 26, which frigate, after an intermediate servitude in the Mediterranean, he paid oS 4 Sept. 1834 – 21 Aug. 1835 to the  38, fitting for the East Indies, whither he took out the present Earl of Auckland as Governor-General – and (the latter ship having been put out of commission 27 Sept. 1836), 30 Oct. 1840, to the  44. For his services in that ship during the war in China (where, in the attack upon Chin-Kiang-Foo, 21 July, 1842, he elicited the best thanks of Major-Gen. Schoedde for the manner in which he superintended the debarkation of the troops under the orders of that officer, whom he accompanied as a volunteer throughout the day ), Capt. Grey, who paid her off towards the close of 1843, was nominated a C.B. He is at present unemployed.

He married, 20 July, 1846, Barbarina Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. F. Sullivan. – Hallett and Robinson.

 GREY. 

, born 16 May, 1809, is fourth son of the late Earl Grey; and next brother of

This officer entered the Navy 17 July, 1822; passed his examination in 1828; and was made Lieutenant, 17 Feb. 1829, into the 76, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; where, after sharing in a particular service performed by the  50, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, he was successively invested with the command, 3 Sept. 1831, and 10 Dec. 1833, of the 18-gun sloops and. Being advanced to the rank he now holds 14 July, 1834, he was next employed, from 12 Aug. 1835 until the autumn of 18.38, and from 28 Aug. 1841 until the spring of 1845, latterly on the Mediterranean station, in the 26, and  38. In the former ship he escorted the Countess of Durham and suite to St. Petersburg, then sailed for South America, and ultimately, conveyed the Marquess of Clanricarde as Ambassador to the former Court.

On 29 Sept. 1846, Capt. Grey was appointed Captain of the port of Gibraltar, and, on 16 of the following Oct., officer in charge of the naval stores belonging to the Dockyard at that place. He married, 20 Jan. 1845, Jane Frances, second daughter of Lieut.-General Hon. Sir P. Stuart, Governor of Malta. – Hallett and Robinson.

 GRIERSON. 

entered the Navy, in Oct. 1797, as a Boy, on board the 32, Capt. Geo. Brisac, with whom, and with Lieut. Rice of the brig, he served on the North Sea station until Oct. 1802. On 20 Sept. 1805, after a further employment of exactly two years, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 74, bearing the flag off Ferrol and in the West Indies of the late Sir Alex. Cochrane, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed First of the 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin; in which ship, on 5 of the following month, he bore a part, off Tobago, in a severe action, of an hour’s duration, with La Cyane of 26, and La Naiade of 16 guns, the former of whom was captured. Continuing in the same ship until Nov. 1810, Mr. Grierson was further employed in her in affording protection to different convoys, and also for some time on the Irish station. His last appointments were – 21 Jan. 1811, and 25 March, 1812, as First-Lieutenant, to the 64, commanded in the Baltic by Capt. Robt. Williams, and 74, bearing the flag off the coast of Holland of Rear-Admiral John Ferrier. He went on half-pay 22 Oct. 1814; and accepted his present rank 10 Aug. 1838. – J. Chippendale.

 GRIERSON. 

entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1797, as Ordinary, on board the 32, Capt. Geo. Brisac, on the Home station; where, from July, 1801, until Sept. 1802, he next served in the brig, Lieut.-Commander Rice. In May, 1804, he re-embarked, as Midshipman, on board the tender, Lieut.-Commanders John Gourly and Mat. Smith; from which vessel he removed, in Aug. 1805, to the sloop, Capt. John Willoughby Marshall; under whom we find him, from 4 Jan. until 9 July, 1808, and again from 17 July, 1809, until 6 March, 1810, discharging the duties of Acting-Lieutenant on the North Sea and Baltic stations. On 29 Nov. in the latter year, after having been attached for short periods to the 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and, again as Acting-Lieutenant, to the 74, Capt. Stephen Poyntz, he was confirmed to his present rank in the  74, Capt. Hugh Downman, also stationed in the Baltic. He left that ship in Sept. 1811; and was afterwards employed in command, from 5 March, 1813, until 9 May, 1814, of the and  tenders. He has since been on half-pay. – J. Chippendale.

 GRIERSON. 

passed his examination 8 Sept. 1837; and served, as Mate, from the close of 1842 until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1845, in the 110, and  84, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He joined, on 19 May in the latter year, the steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Windham Hornby, on the coast of Africa; and, since 8 of the following Oct., has been employed in the Pacific on board the 26, Capt. Patrick John Blake.

 GRIEVE. 

was born 25 April, 1770, at Leith, and died about Sept. 1845, at Weymouth.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1797, as Master’s Mate, on board the 18, Capt. Wm. Brown, and, after an intermediate employment in the North Sea, assumed charge, 3 May, 1798, of the fire-ship, lying at Woolwich. 