Ralph Grey (MP)

{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} '''Ralph William Grey''' (1819 in Earsdon, Northumberland – 1 October 1869 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons3.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029034529/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/lcommons3.htm|archive-date=29 October 2008|title=House of Commons constituencies beginning with "L", part 3|work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages|url-status=usurped|accessdate=2 December 2009}}</ref> was a British Whig politician.

He was the son of Ralph William Grey (died 1822) of Backworth House, Northumberland, and his wife Ann was the daughter of Rev. Sir Samuel Jervoise, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Eton College. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836, graduating B.A. in 1840. In 1839 he became private secretary to Charles Poulett Thomson, shortly to become Baron Sydenham and the first Governor General of Canada.<ref>{{acad|id=GRY798RW|name=Grey, Ralph William}}</ref><ref>{{acad|id=GRY836RW|name=Grey, Ralph William}}</ref>

At the 1847 general election he was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth and North Shields, but in 1852 he narrowly lost the seat to his Conservative opponent by 340 votes to 328.<ref name="craig1832-1885a">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-year=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page= 314 }}</ref> He returned to Parliament two years later when he was elected for Liskeard at a by-election in March 1854, and was re-elected at the general elections in 1857 and 1859.<ref name="craig1832-1885b">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-year=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page= 189 }}</ref> He resigned from the House of Commons on 6 August 1859 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.<ref name="resignation">{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf |title=Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 |author=Department of Information Services |publisher=House of Commons Library |date=9 June 2009 |accessdate=30 November 2009}}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Cornwall}} *Politics of the United Kingdom

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Tynemouth & North Shields | years = 1847 – 1852 | before = Henry Mitcalfe | after = Hugh Taylor }} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Liskeard | years = 1854 – 1859 | before = Richard Crowder | after = Ralph Bernal Osborne }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grey, Ralph William}} Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Category:1819 births Category:1869 deaths Category:UK MPs 1847–1852 Category:UK MPs 1852–1857 Category:UK MPs 1857–1859 Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Liskeard