3-028-627 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late General the Hon. C. Grey, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. W. and D. Downey. 'Colonel Grey acted for some time as Private Secretary to his father while First Lord of the Treasury, and sat in the Parliament of 1831, in the Liberal interest, as M.P. for High Wycombe...It was in his last re-election, December, 1834, that he had as his opponent no less a person than Mr. Disraeli, who then professed Radical opinions, and who polled 128 votes against 147 recorded for the Hon. Charles Grey. Upon her Majesty's accession he was appointed one of her Equeries; and he acted as Private Secretary to the late Prince Consort from 1849 to his death, in December, 1861, since which date he has served her Majesty in the same capacity. In 1866 he was appointed joint Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse. He has frequently attended the Queen in her visits to Balmoral and Osborne...General Grey, it will be remembered, was the editor and compiler, with her Majesty's assistance and direction, of the biographical memoir of the "Early Years of the Prince Consort." He was also the author of a biography of his own father, entitled "Life and Opinions of Charles, Second Earl Grey [who carried the first Reform Bill]".' From "Illustrated London News", 1870.