{{Short description|English judge and colonial governor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}}
'''Sir Charles Edward Grey''' GCH (1785 – 1 June 1865) was an English judge and colonial governor.
==Biography== He was a younger son of Ralph William Grey of Backworth House, Earsdon, Northumberland, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Brandling MP, of Gosforth House, Northumberland.<ref name=autogenerated1>Katherine Prior, 'Grey, Sir Charles Edward (1785–1865)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11528, accessed 17 April 2014]</ref> Grey was educated at Eton, followed by University College, Oxford, graduating in 1806, and elected a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1808.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name="Hill1992">{{cite book|author=Errol Hill|title=The Jamaican Stage, 1655-1900: Profile of a Colonial Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkW2RqfhxPQC&pg=PA171|year=1992|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|isbn=0-87023-779-9|page=171}}</ref> He was called to the bar in 1811, and appointed a commissioner of bankruptcy in 1817.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> In 1820 he was appointed a Judge in the Supreme Court of Madras and knighted, serving until his transfer to be Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of Bengal from 1825 to 1832.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
In 1835, Grey was made a Privy Counsellor and awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (GCH) in 1836.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> He was the elected member of parliament for the constituency of Tynemouth and North Shields from 1838 to 1841.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
In 1841 he was appointed Governor of Barbados and the Windward Islands (covering St Lucia, Trinidad, Tobago and St Vincent) and in 1846 was appointed Governor of Jamaica.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
He retired to England in 1853. He died in Tunbridge Wells in 1865 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
In April 1821, before his departure for Madras, he married Elizabeth (1801–1850), second daughter of Revd Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise, Bt, of Idsworth Park, Hampshire. They had four sons and four daughters.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | before=George Frederick Young | title=Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and North Shields | years=1838–1841 | after=Henry Mitcalfe}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before=Charles Henry Darling | title=Governor of Barbados | years=1841–1846 | after=William Reid}} {{succession box | before=George Henry Frederick Berkeley '''(acting)''' | title=Governor of Jamaica | years=1847–1853 | after=Sir Henry Barkly}} {{s-end}}
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