GREY, Ralph (1661-1706) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 28 Nov. 1661, 2nd s. Ralph Grey, 2nd Bar. Grey of Warke, and Catherine, da. and h. of Sir Edward Ford of Harting, Suss., wid. of Hon. Alexander Colepeper of Wigsell, Kent; bro. Ford Grey, 3rd Bar. Grey of Warke. educ. St Paul’s 1677. Registers of St Paul’s School, 254. unm. d. 20 June 1706; will 13 Mar. 1705, pr. 2 July 1706. TNA, PROB 11/489.

Offices Held

Auditor of exch. (crown revenues, Wales) 1692–1702; CTB, 1689–92, pp. 1523, 1583, 1630; 1702, p. 239. gent. pens. 1692 – 1702; commr. union with Scotland, 1706. CSP Dom. 1705–6, p. 110; Lockhart Mems. 119.

Gov. Barbados and Windward Islands, 1697–1702; TNA, C 231/8, 382; Vernon-Shrewsbury Letters, i. 287. commr. adjudging piracies in W.I. 1700. TNA, C 231/9, 16; CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 111.

Parlimentarian

GREY, Hon. Ralph (1661-1706), of Gosfield, Essex.

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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