biography
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Grey, Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1802–94)
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| biography:
| British statesman, the son of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey. He entered parliament in 1826 as Lord Howick, became under-secretary for the Colonies in his father's ministry, retired in 1833, but was subsequently under-secretary in the Home Department, and in 1835 secretary for war. In 1845 he succeeded to the peerage, in 1846 became colonial secretary, where he was in favour of local self-government for the colonies, and in 1852 published his Defence of Lord John Russell's Colonial Policy. He opposed the Crimean War, and condemned Beaconsfield's Eastern policy. |
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