Royal Naval Biography/Grey, Frederick William
HON. FREDERICK WILLIAM GREY.
[Captain of 1828.]
Third son of Earl Grey, the present Prime Minister of Great Britain, by Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of the first Lord Ponsonby.
This officer was born on the 23d of Aug. 1805; made a lieutenant, April 7th, 1825; appointed to the Volage 28, Cap- the Hon. R. S. Dundas, Sept. 26th following[1]; and promoted from that ship to the command of the Heron sloop, on the South American station, April 17th, 1827. He has recently commissioned the Actaeon, a new 26-gun ship, at Portsmouth.