Earl de Gray

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Earl de Gray , of Wrest in the County of Bedford , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Award

The title was created on October 25, 1816 for Amabel Hume-Campbell (née Yorke), 5th Baroness Lucas . She was the daughter of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and Jemima Campbell, 2nd Marchioness Gray . When her mother died in 1797, the title Marquess Gray had expired.

The earldom was awarded with the special addition that the title, in the absence of male descendants of her own, could also be passed on to her sister Mary Jemima Yorke (1757-1830) and her male descendants.

Subordinate and other titles

In 1797 she had inherited the title of 2nd Baroness Lucas of Crudwell, in the County of Wilts , from her mother , which had been created in the Peerage of England in 1663 . At her death in 1833, her nephew Thomas Weddell, 3rd Baron Grantham inherited her title. He was 3rd Baron Grantham , of Grantham in the County of Lincoln (created in 1761, Peerage of Great Britain ) since 1786 and 6th Baronet Robinson , of Newby in the County of York (created 1690, Baronetage of England) since 1792 . At his death in 1859, the title Baron Lucas fell to his daughter Anne Florence Weddell, 3rd Baroness Lucas (1806-1880), all other titles were inherited by his cousin George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon . This was already 2nd Earl of Ripon , in the County of York (created 1833) and 2nd Viscount Goderich (created 1827) and was made Marquess of Ripon in 1871 ; these three titles belonged to the Peerage of the United Kingdom. When he died in 1909, his son Frederick Oliver Robinson inherited him , and when he died in 1923, the titles lapsed.

Earls de Gray (1816)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b London Gazette . No. 17172, HMSO, London, September 14, 1816, p. 1767 ( PDF , English).

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