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* GKEY. 276 GREYHEN. iralia (1841); Poh/nesian Mythology (1855); and ProvtrbUtl Sayings of the Ancestors of the Xcw Zealand Race (1858). GREY, Sir Henry GEORnE, third Earl Gret (1802-94). An English politician, eldest son of Charles Grey, second Earl Grey. He was born at Howiek, Korthumberland, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He held the title of Viscount Howick from 1807. His long Parlia- mentary career began in 1826, with his election to the House of Commons as a Whig, from Win- chelsea. When, in November, 1830, the Welling- ton Ministry gave place to that of his father, Earl Grey, he became Under .Secretary for the Colonics. In this position he introduced a bill for the encouragement of emigration, and op- posed the practice of making large land grants. In 1833 he resigned his office, on account of the refusal of the t'abinet to undertake the emanci- pation of slaves in the West Indian colonies. For the first six months of 1834 he was again in office as Under Secretary for Home Affairs, and in April, 1835, became Secretary of State for War in Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, and re- ceived an appointment as Privy Councilor. The independence which marked his whole career led in 1839 to his withdrawal from the Cabinet, be- cause of his opposition to its measures in regard to colonial afi'airs, particularly the crisis in Canada. He continued to take a prominent part in Parliamentary debates, and was the author of the amendment to the Irish Franchise Bill in 1841 which eventually led to the defeat of the Government. He took advanced views in favor of free trade. and his speeches had an important inlluence in leading his party to accept that doctrine. Upon the death of his father, in 1845, he succeeded to his title and took his seat in the House of Lords, where he soon became the Whig leader. L'pon Lord John Russell's attempt to organize a Jlinis- try in December. 1845. he was offered a port- folio, but refused at the time, because Lord Palmerston had also been invited to Join it. Six months later he changed his mind, and be- came Secretary for the Colonies in the same Cabinet in -n-hich Lord Palmerston was Foreign Secretary. His administration of the Colonial Office, which lasted until 1852. was marked by many experiments, not all of which were success- ful, by a policy of extension of representative government to the colonies wherever practicable, and by the establishment of colonial free trade, the later abandonment of which he always deemed to be a mistake. From the close of Lord Russell's Administration in 1852 until his death, although never again holding office, he was an active and important figure in Parliament. He pursued a course of great independence, allied himself with neither party, always sharply criticised both Lib- erals and Conservatives, particularly in their ad- ministration of colonial and foreign affairs, and was one of the most strenuous opponents of Glad- stone's home-rule policy for Ireland. He wrote: The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Ad ministration (2 vols.. 1853) ; Parliamentary Gov- ernment (1858) ; Free Trade leith France (1881) : Ireland: the Canses of Its Present Position (1888) ; The Commercial Policy of British Colo- vies and the ilcKinley Tariff (1802) : and edited his father's Correspondence iHth William IV. (18G7). GB3Y, Lady .Jane (c.1537-54). The great- grandaaughtcr of Henry VII. , and second cousin of Edward VI., daughter of Henry Grey and Lady Frances Brandon. Her teacher, Aylmcr, afterwards Bishop of London, taught her Greek, Latin, French, and Italian, in addition to some- thing of the arts and sciences. At the age of nine she entered the household of Queen Catharine Parr, with whom she remained till the death of that lady two years later, when she appeared as tha chief mourner. After Catharine's death she became the ward of Thomas Seymour, whom the Queen had married on the death of Henri- VIII. Seymour jilanned to marry her to Edward VI.; but in this he was thwarted by his brother, the Duke of Somerset, who wished Edward as the husband of his own daughter. This rivalry led to the death of her guardian. Her father, now Duke of Suffolk, after the fall of Somerset in 1549. allied liimself with .John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, perhaps the ablest man — cer- tainly one of the most ambitious men — of his time. Xorthuniberland was now Lord Protector to Ed- ward VI.. and resolved to win the crown for his own family. To this end he arranged a marriage 01 Lady Jane with his fourth son, Guildford Dud- ley, and persuaded Edward to change the order of succession as established by Henry VIII.. pass- ing his sisters, Jlary and Elizabeth, thus leaving the crown to his cousin. Lady Jane. Lady Jane seems to have been kept in ignorance of the intent of her father and father-in-law until the death of Edward (July G. 1553). Two days later the public announcement was made, and on the 9th she was taken before the Council for acknowl- edgment. At this meeting she is said to have swooned, and only after the most earnest persua- sion was she prevailed upon to issue the procla- mation of her accession to the throne. In ten days the intrigue was ended; !Mary was the acknowl- edged Queen of England. Mary recognized Lady .Jane's innocence, and for some months resisted the demands of the Spanish Minister and the radicals of Mary's party that she should be tried and beheaded. Her father weakly joined the Wyatt rebellion, thus losing his own life and bringing death upon his daughter, who with her husband was beheaded February 12. 1554. For her life, consult: Agnes Strickland. Queens of England, ii. (London. 1875-80) : Froude. distory of England, i.. ii. (Xew York. 1871) ; Lingard. History of England, ii. (Boston, 1853-56) ; Green. History of the English People, ii., 145 f. (New York and London, 1899). Original material may be found in Letters and Papers of Henry Till.. edited by Brewer and Gairdner. for the "Rolls Series": Ellis, Original Letters, First Scries (Lond.m. 1824). GREYCOAT SCHOOL, or HOSPITAL. A noted London charity school, founded in 1G98 by Anne, the future Queen of England, for the edu- cation of poor boys and girls. The uniform of the inmates is gray in color. It is now a school for 400 girls, GREYFRIARS. A Franciscan monasteiy in London, established during the reign of Henry III., and once the burial-place of many prom- inent persons. Its site was till 1902 occupied by Christ's Hospital. GREYHEN. The female of the blackcock (q.v,).