Background
Leonard Grey was a younger son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville.
Leonard Grey was a younger son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville.
He was said to have been so cruel that he shortened the life of the Deputy, William Skeffington. Grey was created Viscount Grane in the Peerage of Ireland on 2 January 1536. On 11 July 1537 Grey as Lord Deputy of Ireland visited Galway.
This was the first visit of a King"s Deputy to the town, and marked the start of closer relations between the town and the Anglo-Irish administration in Dublin.
He was lavishly entertained and stayed for seven days. Grey was nevertheless tried and attainted of high treason, and subsequently executed at the Tower of London on 28 July 1541 by the orders of Henry VIII.