Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford
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Roger Grey | |
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11th Lord Grey of Groby, 10th Earl of Stamford | |
Tenure | 24 May 1910 – 18 August 1976 |
Born | London | 27 October 1896
Died | 18 August 1976 | (aged 79)
Noble family | Grey |
Father | William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford |
Mother | Penelope Theobald |
Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (27 October 1896 – 18 August 1976) was an English peer.
He took his seat in the House of Lords on 19 March 1919[1] but rarely sat in the House.
Heritage
Born in London
His seat, Dunham Massey Hall, Altrincham, came to the Grey family in 1758 through the marriage of Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford to Lady Mary Booth, daughter and sole heiress of George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington.
Life-span
Having inherited the earldom of Stamford at the age of thirteen, he took over the management of the Dunham Massey estate in 1917, on attaining his majority. In keeping with his father's outlook,[4] he ran the estate on paternalistic lines, charging his agricultural tenants low rents in the belief that farming was less a business than a way of life.
Educated at
Highly respected in
With dedication and perseverance he reassembled many of the
Amongst his other treasured possessions were Guercino's "Allegory with Venus, Mars, Cupid and Time", and a wood-carving by Grinling Gibbons after Tintoretto's "Crucifixion".
Simon Jenkins's reference to "genteel poverty"[6] is only half the truth.
Except on rare occasions in aid of charity, and by converting it into a military hospital during the First World War, Lord Stamford did not open his home to the public, choosing to live as a recluse. An idealist, he espoused the principles of Christian socialism and, although lacking their panache, his outlook was in harmony with the Young England movement. He and his mother were close friends of Hewlett Johnson, whom he may well have helped in his preferments to the deaneries of Manchester and Canterbury. He moved in the circle of Ramsay MacDonald.
At Dunham Massey he entertained the exiled Emperor
He is said to have persuaded
On 17 July 1946 he and his mother entertained King George VI and the Queen, to luncheon at Dunham Massey.
Legacy
Lord Stamford did not marry. At his death in
He was buried not in the family chapel in the parish church of Bowdon but in the churchyard of St Mark's, Dunham Massey, where he lies near his mother and with some family servants.
A memorial to Stamford in the Bowdon parish church describes him as "A Landowner devoted to the Welfare of his People".[10] There is another memorial to him at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, an ancestral Grey estate, but one which he did not own.
The Dunham Massey archive is now in the possession of the
Arms
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Notes
- ^ HLJournal 9 Geo.V CLI 85b.
- ^ The Complete Peerage, vol. 5, Gloucester: 1982 (XII/1, p. 228).
- ^ Cracroft's Peerage, Stamford, Earl of (E, 1628–1976).
- ^ Hewlett Johnson in William, Earl of Stamford, 1850–1910, London: 1922, pp. 162–163.
- ^ Oxford University Calendar.
- ^ Simon Jenkins, England's Thousand Best Houses, London 2003, p. 79.
- ISBN 978-1-910376-19-5.
- John Rylands University Library, Manchester.
- ^ James Lomax and James Rothwell, Country House Silver from Dunham Massey, National Trust: 2006, pp. 61, 65, 68, 91–92, 121.
- ^ Cracroft's Peerage, Stamford.
- ^ "Grey (Stamford) of Dunham Massey Papers (The University of Manchester Library)". library.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
References
Further reading
- Burke's Peerage (105th edn, 2nd impression), London, 1975, pp. 2515–2516
- The Complete Peerage, vol. 5, Alan Sutton: Gloucester, 1982
- Melville Henry Massue, The Blood Royal of Britain, London: 1903
- Debrett's Peerage
- Cracroft's Peerage
- William, Earl of Stamford, 1850–1910, London: 1922
- James Lomax and James Rothwell, Country House Silver from Dunham Massey, National Trust: 2006