Earl of Stamford
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Earldom of Stamford | |
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Bradgate House (replacement) | |
Motto | A ma puissance ("According to my power") |
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Earl of Stamford was a
History
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He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Earl. He briefly represented
The seventh Earl was succeeded in the barony of Grey of Groby and the earldom of Stamford by his third cousin once removed the Reverend Harry Grey, as eighth Earl. He was the son of the Reverend Harry Grey, son of the Hon. John Grey, third son of the fourth Earl. He lived in South Africa, and had married his housekeeper Martha Solomons after she had already given birth to two of his children, the elder of whom was a boy. As this son was born before the date of his father's marriage, his illegitimacy prevented his inheriting the title; while a third child, born after the marriage and therefore legitimate, could not inherit the earldom because she was female.[2] More information on this episode can be found in Enthusiasms, essays by the historian Mark Girouard.[3]
The eighth Earl was succeeded by his nephew, William Grey, the ninth Earl. However, it was not until 1892 that the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords confirmed the latter in the title, as the Committee wished to be assured that the marriage contracted by the eighth Earl while he lived abroad had not produced a legitimate heir.[4] On the ninth Earl's death the titles passed to his son, Roger Grey, the tenth Earl. He served briefly as Parliamentary Private Secretary (unpaid) to the Secretary of State for India, Lord Peel, in 1922 and was also Mayor of Altrincham from 1937 to 1938. Lord Stamford never married and on his death in 1976 his family titles became extinct.
Estates
The main family seat of the Earls of Stamford in later years was
Another ancestral seat of the Grey family was Enville Hall, Staffordshire, and the house is occupied by relatives of Catherine Cox, Countess of Stamford and Warrington born 11 October 1826 Sturminster Marshall, Dorset died 29 January 1905 Bradgate House, Groby, Leicestershire. This was devised (bequeathed) by George Harry Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford to his great niece, Catherine Payne, who married Sir Henry Foley Lambert, 7th Baronet (who took the surname Grey) in 1905, and subsequently to his granddaughter.[5] Catherine Payne was the granddaughter of Tamar Cox and a sister of Catherine, Countess of Stamford and Warrington, Catherine Payne's mother was the illegitimate daughter called Sarah Letitia Cox and was one of three illegitimate children born to Tamar Cox. Sarah Letitia Cox was brought up under the wing of her aunt Catherine, Countess of Stamford and Warrington and Catherine also took under her wing Robert Miller Cox illegitimate son of Tamar and who became the estate agent at Dunham Massey Hall.
The 7th Earl had a house which he called Bradgate House built in the village of Groby, Leicestershire and this was designed by the architect Mr. M.J. Dain of Dain and Parsons, London, and built by the local builder Mr. Thomas Rudkin; Bradgate House was completed in 1856 and was also built in the Jacobean style and it has been referred to as the Calendar House because it had 365 windows, 52 rooms, and 12 main chimneys.
Bradgate house in Bradgate park, Leicestershire is often confused with Bradgate House built in the 1850s in the village of Groby, Leicestershire.
Titleholders
Barons Grey of Groby (1603)
- Henry Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Groby (1547–1614)
- Henry Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Groby (c. 1600–1673) (created Earl of Stamford in 1628)
Earls of Stamford (1628)
- Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford (c. 1600–1673)
- Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby (1623–1657)
- Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford (c. 1653–1720)
- Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford(1685–1739)
- Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (1715–1768), married Lady Mary Booth in 1702
- George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1737–1819), created Earl of Warrington in 1796
- George Harry Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford, 2nd Earl of Warrington(1765–1845)
- George Harry Grey, 8th Baron Grey of Groby (1802–1835)
- George Harry Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford, 3rd Earl of Warrington (1827–1883)
- Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford (1812–1890), married Martha Solomons (1838-1916) in 1880
- William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850–1910)
- Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896–1976)
See also
References
- ^ Burke, John (1833). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn and R. Bentley. pp. 473–476. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ "The Stamford Peerage" Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1912, 13 July 1892, Page 5
- ISBN 978-1781010884.
- ^ The Times, Wednesday, 4 May 1892; pg. 3; Issue 33629; col B House Of Lords. Committee For Privileges., The Stamford Peerage.
- ^ Victoria County History, Staffordshire XX, 97.
- Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, extinct, dormant and abeyant, in 14 vols, (1907–98), letter S, p.217