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THOMAS GREY, IST MARQUESS OF DORSET (1451-1501)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 432 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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THOMAS GREY, IST MARQUESS OF DORSET (1451-1501) , was the elder son of Sir John Grey, 7th Lord
Ferrers
  of Groby (1432-1461), by his wife Elizabeth Woodville, afterwards queen of
The Grey
Edward IV. He fought for Edward at Tewkesbury, tine. and became Lord Harington and Bonville by right of
his wife
Cecilia
 , daughter of William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington (d. 146o) ; in 1475 he was created marquess of Dorset, and he was also a knight of the Garter and a privy councillor. After the death of Edward IV. Dorset and his brother Richard Grey were among the supporters of their half-brother, the
young
  king Edward V.; thus they incurred the enmity of Richard duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III., and Richard Grey having been arrested, was beheaded at Pontefract in June 1483, while his elder brother, the marquess, saved his life by flight. Dorset was one of the leaders of the duke of Buckingham's insurrection, and when this failed he joined
Henry
 
earl
  of Richmond in Brittany, but he was left behind in Paris when the future king crossed over to England in 1485. After
Henry
 's victory at Bosworth the marquess returned to England and his attainder was reversed, but he was suspected and imprisoned when Lambert Simnel revolted; he had, however, been released and pardoned, had marched into France and had helped to quell the Cornish rising, when he died on the 20th of September 1501.
Dorset's
sixth
  son, Lord Leonard Grey (c. 1490-1541), went to Ireland as marshal of the English army in 1535, being created an Irish peer as Viscount Grane in the same year, but he never assumed this title. In 1536 Grey was appointed lord deputy of Ireland in succession to Sir William Skeffington; he was active in marching against the rebels and he presided over the important
parliament
  of 1536, but he was soon at variance with the powerful family of the Butlers and with some of the privy councillors.
He did not relax his energy in seeking to restore order, but he was accused, probably with truth, of favouring the family of the Geraldines, to whom he was related, and the quarrel with the Butlers became fiercer than ever. Returning to England in 1540 he was thrown into prison and was condemned to death for treason. He was beheaded on the 28th of July 1541 (see R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol. i., 1885).


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