GREY, Ford (1655-1701) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

bap. 6 Dec. 1655, Regs of St Paul’s, Covent Garden (Harl. Soc. Regs. xxxiii), 5. 1st s. Ralph Grey, 2nd Bar. Grey of Warke, and Catherine, da. and h. of Sir Edward Ford of Harting, Suss.; bro. Ralph Grey, 4th Bar. Grey of Warke. educ. ?St Paul’s School. m. c. July 1674 Mary (d. 19 May 1719), da. George Berkeley, 9th Bar. Berkeley, 1da. d. 24 June 1701. will 31 May 1696 – 17 Apr. 1701, pr. 2 Dec. 1701, codicil 16 Dec. 1702. TNA, PROB 11/462; PROB 11/467.

Offices Held

PC 5 May 1695 – d.; commr. appeals in prizes of war 1695, 1697; CSP Dom. 1695, p. 112; CSP Dom. 1697, p. 511. trade and plantations 1696 – 99; to treat with French over Hudson Bay 1699; CSP Dom. 1699–1700, pp. 64, 67. treasury 1 June – 15 Nov. 1699, first ld. treasury 15 Nov. 1699 – 9 Dec. 1700; ld. justice June-Sept. 1700; CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 77. ld. privy seal, 5 Nov. 1700–d. TNA, PC 2/78, p. 95; CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 142.

Parlimentarian

GREY, Ford (1655-1701)

Associated with: Up Park [Uppark], Harting, Suss.;VCH Suss. iv. 10-11, 16.; Epping Place, Epping, Essex;J. Holmes, 'Epping Place', Essex Arch. Trans. n.s. xxv. 329-33.; Charterhouse Yard, Mdx. (sold ) by 1694;Survey of London, xlvi. 250, 254; CSP Dom. 1683 (Jan.-June), 242, 245.; King’ (i.e. Soho) Square, Westminster (1683–5);Survey of London, xxxiii. 44, 121n.; Pall Mall, Westminster . (by 1698).Survey of London, xxx. 548.;

Likenesses

mezzotint, aft. Sir Peter Lely, c. 1684, NPG D29417; line engraving, Cornelius Nicolas Schurtz, aft. Sir Peter Lely, 1689, NPG D18611.

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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