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 STAMFORD. 229 and wns bin: (with his ancestors) at Bradgate, co. Leicester. Admon. 2 Oct. 1673,( a ) bis widow being then living. [Thomas Grey, styled I.onn Grey of Grobt, 1st s. ami h. ap. J. 1G23 ; was early in life a zealous republican, obtaining several successes for that party. ( b ) was M P. for Leicester. 1640-53 (being spoken of in 1)642 as " a Lord dear to the House of Common) "j and for Leicestershire, 10.14-5.1 ; was Com. -in-Chief (on the num. of Pari.) uf Leicestershire and the Midland Comities, c ) Jan. 1648; was the guiding power (even more than Col. Pride himself) of Pride's " purge '' (li Dee. 1048) to the Pari., and one of the most active of the Re /icide J Itdgex, his signature on the death warrant being the second, between that of Uradshaw ami Cromwell. He was a Councillor cf State from the establishment of the Commonwealth till the Protectorate, being opposed to many of the Protector's measures. He became a " Fifth Monarchy man " and was imprisoned accordingly at Windsor Castle Feb. to July 16.1.1. He m. (Lie. London 4 June 1646) Dorothy. 2d da. and coheir of ICdward (Bui iicniF.it), 4th Eahl of Hath. She, who was bap. 24 .Sep. 1620, appears to have ft. before him. He el. of the gout, v.p., April, or May, 1657, C) aged 34. Will dat. 4 April, pr. 8 May 1657.] II. 1G73. & Thomas (Greif), Eaue of Stamford, &c, grandson and h., being only s. and h. of Thomas Orkv, styled Loud Grey of QrqBT, and Dorothy his wife, both abovenamed. He was b. about April 1654 ; styled Loud Ghky of CttonT 1657-73; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 1 July 1667, aged 13; cr. M A. 28 June 100S • sue. to the peerage, as above, 21 Aug. 167^, taking his seat 13 Sep. 1675 ; was imprisoned D185 for suspected complicity in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion and the live House plot, but was pardoned 1686 ; was one of those "in arms " for the Prince of Orange in 16SS.^ C ) High .Steward of the Honour of l eicster. 1689 ; P.C. July 1694 ; a Coinurissr. of Greenwich hospital, 1695 ; 11 Lord of Trade, &c, 1695 : entertained the King at his seat at Bradgate in 1696; was L.-Lieut. of Devon 1696-1702 : Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1697-1702; President of the Board ot Trade, fee, 1699-1702 (being dismissed from all ofliee at the accession uf Queen Anne) and 1707. F.U.S. 12 May 170S. He m. firstly between 21 Aug. 1673 and 13 April 1675, Elizabeth, 1st da. of Sir Daniel Hahyf.y, of Cutube NcviU in King-ton, co. .Surrey, Ambassador to Constantinople, by Elizabeth, only da. of 'Edward (Montagu), 2d B.vnoN Mon- tagu ok Boviohton. She who was 6. about 1657, d. s.p m.s. and was bur. 7 Sep. 16S7,( f ) having been some years separated from her husband. (e) He m. (») Altho' W. Mercer (" An alia speculum") calls lorn the "most courteous and right stately Stanford," his haughty and irritable disposition, his unreasonable hostility to the Church and his general incapacity give an unfavourable impression of hint. His portrait " after V. Hollar " is engraved in " Ihylc." (") See p. 228, note " a." ( c ) Clarendon (" ltebellion ") speaks of Lord Grey as " a young man of no eminent parts, and only backed with the credit and authority of the Parliament." ( d ) There is a fine portrait of him at Newnham Paddox, co. Warwick, the seat of the Earl of Denbigh, one of which Earls m. the sister of Lord Grey's wife. Another portrait of this "celebrated Pari. General with a Page carrying his helmet" is mentioned (iV. and Q. 8, S. vii, 366) as beiug (1895) at Fawsley Hall, co. Northampton. This is probably "the picture of the late Lord Grey " mentioned iu the will of the Countess Mary, dat. 1722. ( c ) See vol. i, p. 28, note " b," sub " Abingdon," for a list of these. (0 According to a contemporary letter from James Fraaer to Sir Robert Southwell, dat. 8 Sep. 1687, " Last night the Lady Stamford was buried." In "Tlic Ladies March" (a MS. satire iu verse) 15 Feb. 16S1 [1081/2?] reference is made to her as under — " Stamford's Countess led the van, Tallest of the caravan ; She who nere wants white or red, r Nor just pretence to keep her bed." [.ex inform. W. J. Harvey.] ( 5 ) He appears, from a letter by her mother, to have treated her in a "disgraceful manner" [N.and Q. 8th S. vii, 201], while, according to Nichols ("Leicestershire"), sue purposely set on fire the room in which he slept, burning down the_ old house at Bradgate and escaping therefrom (with her infant da., Diana) with great difficulty, she was a great beauty, and her portrait by Lely is engraved by Thompson.