Frederick Grey

Sir

Frederick Grey
Sir; Frederick Grey
Born	23 August 1805; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

First Lord of the Admiralty

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Early career

Born the son of

Cap Bon in Tunisia in 1824.^[2] Promoted to lieutenant on 7 April 1825, he transferred to the fifth-rate HMS Sybille in the Mediterranean Fleet that month and then to the sixth-rate HMS Volage on the South America Station in September 1825.^[3] Promoted to commander on 17 April 1827, he was posted to the sloop HMS Heron on the South America Station that same month.^[3]

Promoted to captain on 19 April 1828, Grey was given command successively of the sixth-rate HMS Actaeon in the Mediterranean Fleet in November 1830, of the fourth-rate HMS Jupiter on the East Indies and China Station in August 1835 and then of the fifth-rate HMS Endymion also on the East Indies and China Station in October 1840.^[3] In HMS Endymion he saw action in the First Opium War and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 24 December 1842.^[4]

Grey took command of the second-rate

Bosphorus where he was deployed as principal agent of transports during the Crimean War.^[3]

Senior command

Promoted to

Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope & West Coast of Africa Station, hoisting his flag in the third-rate HMS Boscawen, in April 1857.^[3]

Promoted to

second Russell ministry fell from power in July 1866.^[3]

Grey lived at Lynwood House in Sunningdale in Berkshire and died there on 2 May 1878.^[1]

Family

He married, in 1846, Barbarina Charlotte Sullivan, daughter of Rev. Frederick Sullivan and Arabella Wilmont, and sister of Admiral Sir Francis Sullivan, 6th Baronet. They had no issue.^[1] Lady Grey died at her residence Fairmile House, Cobham, on 23 March 1902.^[11]

References

^
doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50204. Retrieved 31 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership
required.)

^ "No. 18054". The London Gazette. 17 August 1824. p. 1354.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "William Loney RN". Retrieved 31 December 2012.
^ "No. 20181". The London Gazette. 27 December 1842. p. 3864.
^ "No. 21654". The London Gazette. 26 January 1855. p. 308.
^ "No. 21955". The London Gazette. 2 January 1857. p. 12.
^ "No. 22537". The London Gazette. 9 August 1861. p. 3317.
^ "Navy — Constitution of the Board of Admiralty — Resolution. vol 208 cc1019-61". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 7 August 1871. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
^ "No. 22964". The London Gazette. 2 May 1865. p. 2314.
^ "No. 22952". The London Gazette. 28 March 1865. p. 1730.
^ "Obituary". The Times. No. 36725. London. 26 March 1902. p. 10.

Military offices
Preceded by Vacant	Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station 1857–1860	Succeeded by Sir Henry Keppel
Preceded by Sir Richard Dundas	First Naval Lord 1861–1866	Succeeded by Sir Alexander Milne

First Sea Lords of the Royal Navy
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Early career

Senior command

Family

References

Further reading