Background
WALSINGHAM, Thomas de Grey was born on July 29, 1843. Son of 5th Baron and Augusta, daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, 7th Baronet, of Thirkleby. Succeeded father 1870.
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Thomas de Grey WALSINGHAM
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Eton; Trinity College Cambridge (Master of Arts). Master of Arts; Doctor of Laws (Cambridge).
Career
Member of Parliament (Conservative) West Norfolk, 1865-1870. Lord-in-Waiting,1874-1875. Thomas de Grey, Doctorate.L., Justice of the Peace.
1891; Meiub. Society Ent. de France. Ent. Ver. zu Berlin; Nederlandsche Ent. Ver.; Society Ent. de Russie.
Linn Society New South Wales. American Ent. Society Philadelphia. Branch Ornitli. Union, et cetera
High Steward of University of Cambridge since i 1891, and of the Borough of King’s Lynn since J 1894. Trustee of British Museum, the Hunterian Museum (Royal College of Surgeons), and the Lawes Agricultural Trust.
Politics
Conservative.
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow of the Linnean Society. Fellow of the Zoological Society.
Fellow of Entomological Society (President, 1889-1890).
Clubs: Carlton, Isthmian.
Interests
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Is a famous shot—his bag of 1070 grouse to his own gun has never been surpassed. Contributed the articles on the grouse, the pheasant, and the partridge to the Badminton Library. 1 visited California and Oregon (1870-1871) on a sporting and collecting tour, and made extensive collections there and subsequently in South. France, Corsica, Audalusia, Morocco, Algeria, Jamaica, et cetera
Played in Eton and Cambridge cricket elevens, and in Gentlemen v.
Players. Z., Marylebone Cricket Club, et cetera Presen ted his collection of Micro Lepidoptera and his entomological library to the British Museum (Natural History) in.
Connections
Heir: halfHonourable John de Grey.
