Enville Hall, Enville (geograph 3443335)

George Harry Booth-Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford and 2nd Earl of Warrington (31 October 1765 – 26 April 1845), styled Lord Grey from 1768 to 1819, was a British

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and parliamentarian. Booth-Grey was the eldest son of

George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1 October 1737 – 28 May 1819), styled Lord Grey from 1739 to 1768, was a British nobleman, who additionally became a peer of Great Britain as Earl of Warrington in 1796. The eldest son and heir ...

and his wife, Henrietta

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. He was educated at

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and

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. From 1790 to 1796, he was the Whig

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for

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. He contested both

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and St Germans, losing the former but representing the latter from 1796 to 1802. In 1819 he succeeded his father as Earl of Stamford and Warrington, inheriting the family estates at

Enville, Staffordshire Enville is a village and civil parish in rural Staffordshire, England, on the A458 road between Stourbridge and Bridgnorth. Enville is in the South Staffordshire district. The largest village nearby is Kinver, with the smaller villages of Bobbin ...

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in Leicestershire, Dunham Massey in Cheshire and

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in Lancashire. He was appointed

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in 1819, and in 1827, succeeded

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as Vice-Admiral and Chamberlain of the county. On 23 December 1797, Grey married Henrietta Charlotte Elizabeth Charteris, sister of

Francis Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss Francis Wemyss Charteris Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss, 4th Earl of March (15 April 177228 June 1853), known as the Earl of March from 1810 to 1826 and as the Earl of Wemyss and March from 1826 to 1853, was a Scottish peer. Background Wemyss was ...

. They lived at Enville Hall, the family

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, and had five children: * George Harry (1802–1835), later

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, married Catherine Charteris Wemyss in 1824, and had: ** George Harry Booth-Grey, his successor **Margaret Henrietta Maria (1825–1852), married Henry John

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*Henrietta Charlotte (1799–1866), married

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(a priest; son of

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and of Bath and Wells) *Maria (17 December 1800 – 4 May 1821) *Jane (1804–1877), married John Walsh (later Baron Ormathwaite). *Henry Booth On Stamford's death at

Enville Hall Enville Hall is an English Tudor country house in the village of Enville, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building. The house has a 16th and 17th-century U-shaped core formed by the hall range and two flanking wings enclosing a south facin ...

in 1845, his senior titles devolved upon his grandson,

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who succeeded as the 7th and 3rd Earl, since his father who was summoned as the 8th Baron Grey of Groby in 1832 had predeceased him in 1835.

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