His eldest son, a Midshipman in the royal navy, died Nor. 11, 1822, aged 20 years.
HON. SIR GEORGE GREY, BART.
[Retired Captain.]
Knight Commander of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath; Resident Commissioner of Portsmouth Dock-Yard; Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Barbadoes; an Alderman of Portsmouth; a Vice-President of the Naval and Military Bible Society, &c. &c. &c.
This officer is the fourth son of the late Earl Grey, K.B., a General in the army, Colonel of the 3d regiment of dragoons, and Governor of Guernsey, by Elizabeth, daughter of George Grey, of Southwick, co. Durham, Esq.[1]
He was born Oct. 10, 1767; and at the commencement of
- ↑ The Greys are a junior branch of an ancient baronial family in Northumberland, the chief of whom was created Baron Grey, of Werke, by James I., and advanced to the Earldom of Tankerville by William III.; which titles became extinct at the commencement of the last century; and the heiress having carried the estates, by marriage, to Charles Benuet, Lord Ossulton, that nobleman was, in consequence, created Earl of Tankerville in 1714. The late Earl Grey was an officer of great experience, having served at the battle of Minden, under Prince Ferdinand; ami on the plains of Abraham, as aid-de-camp to the immortal Wolfe. He next commanded a body of troops during the colonial war; and in 1793, was appointed to command the army sent against the French West India colonies. He was born Oct. 23, 1729; created Baron Grey de Howick, June 23, 1801; Viscount Howick and Earl Grey, April 1, 1806. His Lordship died Nov. 14, 1807; and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Charles, the present peer.
was a Midshipman on board the Centurion, and the first person who discovered the rich Acapulco ship, captured by Commodore Anson in the Southern Ocean. In 1757. he commanded the Medway of 60 guns, under the orders of Sir Edward Hawke, in the expedition against Rochefort. On the 17th Jnly, 1761, when Captain of the Thunderer 74, he captured, after a severe and gallant action, l’Achille of 64 guns and 600 men. The Thunderer on this occasion had 17 men killed, and 114, including her commander, wounded. So great a carnage was occasioned by one of the maindeck guns bursting, which blew up a part of the quarter-deck, and set the ship on fire. The enemy’s loss was also very considerable. In 1769, we find him with his broad pendant on board the Pembroke, as Commander-in-Chief on the Mediterranean station. In 1771, he was made Comptroller of the Victualling Board; and, before the year elapsed, appointed Commissioner at Chatham, where he died in 1799, aged 74 years. He was remarkable for his charitable disposition; and among other donations, he allowed 50l. per annum to the poor of Chatham.
