biography
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Grey, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl
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| lived:
| (1764–1845)
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| biography:
| British statesman and prime minister (1830–4), born in Fallodon, Northumberland, NE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, became a Whig MP in 1786, and was a leading supporter of parliamentary reform in the 1790s. In 1806 he became First Lord of the Admiralty, foreign secretary, and Leader of the House of Commons. In 1807 he succeeded his father as second Earl Grey. In 1830 he formed a government promising peace, retrenchment, and reform, and after considerable difficulties secured the passage of the 1832 Reform Bill. In the new parliament he carried the Act for the abolition of slavery in the colonies, but was forced to resign following disagreement over the Irish question. |
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