Hon. John Grey (died 1709), of Enville Hall, Staffordshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698.
Enville Hall is an English Tudor country house in the village of Enville, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building.
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England. It borders with Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, West Midlands and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west.
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Grey was the third son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Lady Anne Cecil, youngest daughter and coheiress of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter, whose second son was Anchitell Grey, the Parliamentary diarist. In 1660 he was elected Member of Parliament for Leicester in the Convention Parliament. He was elected MP for Leicester again in 1677 in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament and was returned again for the two elections in 1679 and in 1681. He inherited the Enville estate under the will of his cousin Henry Grey who died in 1687. In 1689 he was elected MP for Staffordshire and was re-elected in 1690 and 1695. [1]
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, known as the Lord Grey of Groby from 1614 to 1628, was an English nobleman and military leader. He was the eldest son of Sir John Grey and Elizabeth Nevill. His mother was probably a daughter of Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny and his wife Rachel Lennard.
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter,, known as the third Lord Burghley from 1605 to 1623, was an English nobleman, politician, and peer.
The Hon. Anchitell Grey was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1665 and 1695. Although he spoke rarely, he kept a detailed diary of proceedings in the House of Commons, summarising the speeches he heard. The diary, published in the 18th century, is the main surviving record for the debates in Parliament in most of the period that it covers.
Grey married:
- Mary daughter of Sir Francis Wolryche of Dudmaston by whom he had a daughter Mary, who married William Ward of Willingsworth. Their son was John Ward who succeeded as 6th Baron Ward and to the entailed portion of the Dudley estates in 1740, and was created Viscount Dudley and Ward in 1763.
- Catherine, eldest daughter of Edward Ward, 7th Baron Dudley, 2nd Baron Ward (on 21 November 1683). They had:
- A son Henry, who succeeded him to the Enville estate and succeeded his cousin as Earl of Stamford in 1720, and
- A daughter Mary, who married Sir John Wrottesley, 4th baronet.
Earl of Stamford was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Henry Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Groby. This Grey family descended through Lord John Grey, of Pirgo, Essex, younger son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, and younger brother of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk ; Suffolk was executed for treason in 1554 forfeiting his titles.
