John Grey (MP)

John Grey (c.1724 – 25 February 1777)[1] was a British politician, the younger son of Harry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford. He was the Clerk of the Green Cloth from 1754 until his death, and at the 1754 general election he was elected unopposed [2] as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Bridgnorth in Shropshire. He was re-elected unopposed in 1761,[2] and stood down in 1768 to be elected at Tregony instead.[2]

In May 1748, he married Lucy, daughter of Sir Joseph Danvers, 1st Baronet.[3] They had no children.

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
  2. ^ a b c The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F. W. S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973), p.272
  3. ^ The Peerage of England, p.45, Edward Kimber, accessed through Google books, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P7pAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA45
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Whitmore
Arthur Weaver		 Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth
1754–1768
With: George Pigot		 Succeeded by
George Pigot
William Whitmore
Preceded by
Abraham Hume
Thomas Pownall		 Member of Parliament for Tregony
1768–1774
With: Thomas Pownall		 Succeeded by
Hon. George Lane Parker
Alexander Leith