Sir Henry Grey, of Groby, MP

Henry Grey, 1st Lord Grey of Groby (1547–1614) was an English courtier, administrator and local politician.

From GREY, Sir Henry (1547-1614), of Pirgo, Essex; later of Groby, Leics.

Family and Education

b. 1547, o.s. of Lord John Grey of Pirgo by Mary, da. of Sir Anthony Browne†, 1st Visct. Montagu. educ.?Christ Church, Oxf. 1563, BA 1565, MA 1568. m. Anne, da. of William Windsor†, 2nd Lord Windsor, 4s. inc. Sir John 3da. suc. fa. 1564. Kntd. 1587; cr. Baron Grey of Groby 1603.

Biography

Grey was a courtier, the cousin of Lady Jane Grey. His father was the younger brother of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset. His own ambition was to re-establish his family on the ancestral Leicestershire estates and to be restored to the marquessate.

Grey died 26 July 1614, and was buried at Bradgate, being succeeded by his grandson Henry, a minor. In his will, dated 20 June 1614 and proved 2 Nov., he described himself as ‘of Leicestershire’, and made provision for the administration of the manors of Broughton and Willoughby by his executors on behalf of his two younger sons, his one surviving daughter and his servants. The executors, who were to have plate worth £40 each, were Sir Thomas Beaumont, Anthony Byninge of Ipswich, and Francis White, ‘clerk’.2

Sources

1. The peerage of England: containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England now existing either by tenure, summons or creation, their descents and collateral lines, their births, marriages, and issues, famous actions both in war and peace, religious and charitable donations, deaths, places of burial, monuments, epitaphs, and many valuable memoirs never before printed, also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities, Volume 2 (Google eBook) Arthur Collins. Printed for R. Gosling and T. Wotton, 1735 - History. Page 168

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grey,_1st_Baron_Grey_of_Groby
• http://thepeerage.com/p44650.htm#i446492