Charles second Earl Grey

Maria Shirreff married her first cousin William Thomas Grey , a wine merchant and nephew of the second Earl Grey (Whig statesman and architect of the Reform Bill of 1832).

JB 's father, John Grey , was a well-respected landowner and agricultural reformer; he strongly supported several significant political movements including the abolition of slavery, the Reform Bill, and the repeal of the Corn Laws...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , gave birth to her illegitimate daughter by Charles Grey .

The complexity of this family was yet further increased when Georgiana (after, probably, an affair with the Duke of Dorset , an ex-lover of Bess's) began a new one with Charles Grey , a rising...

BBBD 's circle of friends at this period of her life, many of them entertained by herself and her husband at the Hoo but many whose relationship with her went back to long before her...

He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed Queen Caroline's defence during her trial for adultery in 1820, and was appointed...

Caroline later told Sydney Morgan that her mother, after having a paralytic stroke, took her to Italy at four years old. In fact, she was just turning six when they went...

This book is character-driven in AF 's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell and William Cobbett . Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement...

After the then Earl of Yarmouth was appointed Lord of the Stanneries in July 1812, she again launched into politically-inflected doggerel, rhyming croney with Boney and fidget with ideot,and lamenting that Yarmouth's rosy whiskers...

In the plot, Jim is suspected in the murder of a policeman, but later becomes sensibly disillusioned with repeal. Grace improves her natural goodness by reading the Bible in an almost Protestant manner. She ministers...