Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)

Oil portrait of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, circa 1828.Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807.

He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834.

A member of the Whig Party, he backed significant reform of the British government and was among the primary architects of the Reform Act 1832.

His government also saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

He has come to be associated with Earl Grey tea. See Bergamot essential oil.

In the News

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  Young woman thought to be the Earl of Grey's unrequited muse.

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  Cold weather depresses Bergamot trees, oil industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

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  Charles Grey satirized in "A Political Union": John Bull, Grey, William IV.

Fiction cross-reference

• The Adulteration of Bergamot, the Earl's lost erotic novel.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)
• Reform Act 1832 (nonfiction)

External links:

• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey @ Wikipedia