Other Events:

• Education: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Trinity College, Cambridge
• Education: Westminster, Middlesex, England; Westminster School
• Degree: 1715; Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Cantab.)
• Degree: 1719; Master of Arts (M.A.) (Cantab.)
• Office: From 1723 to 1730, Paris, France; Secretary of the Embassy
• Office: From 1727 to 1734; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Thirsk
• Office: From 1730 to 1748; Envoy to Vienna
• Decoration: 26 June 1742; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Office: From 1748 to 1749; Junior Lord of Trade
• Office: From 1748 to 1761; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Christchurch
• Office: From 1749 to 1754; Master of the Wardrobe
• Decoration: 29 March 1750; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Office: From March 1754 to Nov. 1755; Secretary of State for the South
• Office: From 1755 to 1760; Master of the Wardrobe
• Office: From April 1755 to Sept. 1755; Lord Justice (Regent) of the Realm
• Hereditary Title: From 7 April 1761 to 30 Sept. 1770; 1st Baron Grantham, of Grantham, co. Lincoln [G.B., 1761]
• Office: From 1765 to 1766; Joint Postmaster General
• Will: 7 June 1769
• Probate: 12 Dec. 1770

Notes:

Office:
Whig

Decoration:
He was invested at Vienna.

Office:
"He, in 1754, and in a greater degree Murray (afterwards Lord Mansfield), appear to have been the principal stay of the Newcastle Ministry, but Robinson was without Parliamentary influence, and unable to bear up against the struggle for power which ensued at that epoch. "By meer chance made Secretary of State, by meer chance brought out of it with a pension, which his family wanted and greater than he could have hoped or indeed did ask for; by meer chance made a peer. He wanted all this luck, for he was a very dull man, and from a great peculiarity of voice, gesture, diction, worse than a bad speaker, much worse than a silent man in Parliament. I should not do him justice if I did not mention (though it had no hand in his preferment) that he was a very honest and good natured man." (Lord Holland's Memoir.) "Though a good Secretary of State as far as the business of his office and that which related to foreign affairs, he was ignorant even of the language of a House of Commons controversy, and when he played the orator, which he too frequently attempted, it was so exceedingly ridiculous that those who loved and esteemed him could not always preserve a friendly composure of countenance." (Lord Waldegrave.) "He was a large, unwieldy man, and would in debate put his arms straight out, which made George Selwyn compare him to a signpost." (Colebrook, volume i, page 18.)" (Vicary Gibbs.)

Hereditary Title:
"As a peer he protested against the denial of privilege in the Wilkes case in 1763, and was a member of Rockingham's first administration, retiring with him in 1766." (Vicary Gibbs.)

Thomas married Frances Worsley on 13 July 1737 in Hovingham, Yorkshire, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas Worsley and Mary Frankland) was born in 1716; died in in Earl's Court, Kensington, Middlesex, England; was buried on 6 Nov. 1750 in Chiswick, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Christ's College, Cambridge
• Education: Westminster, Middlesex, England; Westminster School
• Decoration: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (F.S.A.)
• Office: Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Christchurch
• Degree: 1757; Master of Arts (M.A.) (Cantab.)
• Office: 1761; Secretary to the Congress of Augsburg
• Office: From 1766 to 1770; Junior Lord of Trade
• Office: From 1770 to 1771; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
• Office: 26 Feb. 1770; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Hereditary Title: From 30 Sept. 1770 to 20 July 1786; 2nd Baron Grantham, of Grantham, co. Lincoln [G.B., 1761]
• Office: From 1771 to 1779; Ambassador to Madrid
• Office: From 1780 to 1782; First Lord of Trade
• Office: From 1782 to 1783; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Probate: July 1786

Notes:

Office:
Whig

"As an M.P. he was nominally a Whig, but supported the Court after 1766. As a peer he was a member of North's and of Shelburne's administrations; he afterwards supported Pitt. His rapacity in securing a pension of £2,000 p.a. when the Shelburne Ministry went out in 1783, though he was already in receipt of another pension of £3,000 p.a. for life, and had married a rich wife, was unfavourably noted." (Vicary Gibbs.)

Family/Spouse: Lady Mary Jemima Yorke. Mary was born on 9 Feb. 1757; died on 7 Jan. 1830 in Whitehall, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theresa married John (Parker), 1st Baron Boringdon on 18 May 1769 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. John was born in in Saltram House, Plympton St. Mary, Devon, England; died on 27 April 1788 in Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
He died without issue.

Family/Spouse: Catherine Gertrude Harris. Catherine died on 8 June 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; St. John's College, Cambridge
• Hereditary Title: From 20 July 1786 to 14 Nov. 1859; 3rd Baron Grantham, of Grantham, co. Lincoln [G.B., 1761]
• Hereditary Title: From 4 May 1833 to 14 Nov. 1859; 2nd Earl de Grey of Wrest, co. Bedford [U.K., 1816]
• Hereditary Title: From 4 May 1833 to 14 Nov. 1859; 6th Baron Lucas of Crudwell, co. Wilts [E., 1663]
• Probate: 25 Jan. 1860, Principal Registry, London, Middlesex, England; Granted to the Right Honourable Anne Florence Dowager Countess Cowper of Wrest Park in the County of Bedford Widow the Daughter and Henry Vyner of Newby Hall in the County of York Esquire the Executors (Effects under £100,000)

Notes:

He assumed the surname de Grey by royal licence dated 23 June 1833.

Family/Spouse: Lady Henrietta Frances Cole. Henrietta died on 2 July 1845. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Office: Lord Privy Seal
• Office: Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Office: From 1827 to 1828; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Hereditary Title: From 28 April 1827 to 28 Jan. 1859; 1st Viscount Goderich [U.K., 1827]
• Hereditary Title: From 13 April 1833 to 28 Jan. 1859; 1st Earl of Ripon [U.K., 1833]

Frederick married Lady Sarah Albinia Louisa Hobart on 1 Sept. 1814. Sarah died on 9 April 1867. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: From 27 April 1788; 2nd Baron Boringdon of Boringdon, co. Devon
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Nov. 1815; 1st Earl of Morley
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Nov. 1815; 1st Viscount Boringdon of North Molton, co. Devon

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: From 7 Oct. 1833 to 23 July 1880; Countess Cowper
• Hereditary Title: From 14 Nov. 1859 to 23 July 1880; suo jure 7th Baroness Lucas of Crudwell, co. Wilts [E., 1663]
• Residence: 1880, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England
• Residence: 1880, 4, St. James's Square, St. James's, Middlesex, England
• Probate: 12 Oct. 1880, Principal Registry, London, Middlesex, England; Granted to the Right Honourable Francis Thomas de Grey Earl Cowper of Panshanger in the County of Hertford K.G. the Son the sole Executor (Personal Estate under £80,000)

Notes:

Died:
He died unmarried within the lifetime of his father.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1892, Newby Hall, Skelton, Yorkshire, England
• Probate: 30 Nov. 1892, London, Middlesex, England; Granted to Robert Charles de Grey Vyner esquire (Effects £48890 14s.)

Mary married Henry Vyner on 5 July 1832. Henry (son of Robert Vyner) died on 22 Jan. 1861 in Newby Hall, Skelton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: From 28 Jan. 1859 to 9 July 1900; 2nd Earl of Ripon [U.K., 1833]
• Hereditary Title: From 28 Jan. 1859 to 9 July 1900; 2nd Viscount Goderich [U.K., 1827]
• Hereditary Title: From 14 Nov. 1859 to 9 July 1900; 3rd Earl de Grey of Wrest, co. Bedford [U.K., 1816]
• Hereditary Title: From 23 June 1871 to 9 July 1900; 1st Marquess of Ripon [U.K., 1871]

George married Henrietta Anne Theodosia Vyner on 8 April 1851. Henrietta (daughter of Henry Vyner and Lady Mary Gertrude Weddell) died on 28 Feb. 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]