Background
Grey was born in Newfoundland, the son of Revd.
Grey was born in Newfoundland, the son of Revd.
William Grey and Harriet White, educated at Exeter College, Oxford and from 1878 to 1883 Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Codrington College in Barbados. C. Theobald. Following a delay whilst the House of Lords considered the legitimacy of the 8th earl"s son"s claim to the title, he moved in 1906 to Dunham Massey to take up residence in the remaining family seat, which had been empty for many years. Once there he set about modernising the electrical and plumbing systems and redesigning the interiors with the help of the furniture historian and connoisseur Percy Macquoid.
He was a devout and philanthropic man, a vice-president of the Bible Society and at one time a member of the Metropolitan Asylum Board and the council of the Metropolitan Hospital Fund.