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STAMFORD, HENRY GREY

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STAMFORD, See also:HENRY See also:GREY , 1st See also:EARL of (c. 1599-1673), eldest son of See also:Sir See also:John Grey, succeeded his grandfather, Henry Grey as See also:Baron Grey of Groby in See also:July 1614. He married See also:Anne, daughter of See also:William See also:Cecil, 2nd earl of See also:Exeter, the heiress of the See also:borough and See also:manor of Stamford, and in See also:March 1628 was created earl of Stamford. Just before the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he ranged himself definitely among the See also:king's opponents, and was made See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Leicestershire. After some operations around See also:Leicester he occupied See also:Hereford, and, when compelled to abandon the See also:city, marched into See also:Cornwall. At Stratton, in May 1643, his troops were beaten by the Royalists; driven into Exeter, Stamford was forced to surrender this city after a See also:siege of three months. The earl, who was certainly no See also:general, was charged with cowardice, and took no further See also:part in the military operations of the war, although once or twice he was employed on other business. The ravages of the Royalists had reduced him to poverty, and, distrusted by the See also:House of See also:Commons, he had See also:great difficulty in getting any See also:compensation from See also:parliament. After a See also:period of retirement Stamford declared for See also:Charles II. during a rising in See also:August 1659, and was arrested, but was soon released. He died on the 21St of August 1673. One of his sons was Anchitell Grey (d. 1702), the compiler of the Debates of the House of Commons, 1667-1694 (10 vols.

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Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby (c. 1623-1657), was member of parliament for Leicester during the See also:Long Parliament, and an active member of the See also:parliamentary party. In See also:January 1643 he was appointed See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the forces of the parliament in the midland counties and See also:governor of Leicester. In 1648 he won some See also:credit for his See also:share in the pursuit and See also:capture of the See also:duke of See also:Hamilton; he assisted See also:Colonel See also:Pride to " purge " the House of Commons later in the same See also:year; and he was a member of the See also:court which tried the king, whose See also:death-See also:warrant he signed. A member of the See also:council of See also:state under the See also:Commonwealth, Grey fought against the Scots in 1651, and in See also:February 16J5 he was arrested on suspicion of conspiring against See also:Cromwell. He was, however, soon released, but he predeceased his See also:father in See also:April or May 1657.

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