Education
Eton College; New College.
Botanist horticulturist politician
Eton College; New College.
He is well known as an arboriculturalist and plant collector. He is the creator of the Howick Arboretum at Howick Hall, one of the largest collections of wild origin plants in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford.
He served as a director of Barings Bank (1969–1982) and on the executive committee of the National Art Collections Fund.
He was a director of Northern Rock plc (1987–2001). His mother Lady Mary Cecil Grey (1907–2002) died aged 94.