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Family and Education
b. c. 1623, 1st s. of Henry Grey, 1st earl of Stamford*.London Mar. Lics. ed Foster, 277; CP. educ. G. Inn 16 Mar. 1641.G. Inn Admiss. m. lic. 4 June 1646, Dorothy, da. and coh. of Edward Bourchier, 4th earl of Bath, 1s. 2da.London Mar. Lics. ed Foster, 277; CP; J. Richards, Aristocrat and Regicide: The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby (2000), 439. d. betw. 4 Apr. and 8 May 1657.PROB11/263, ff. 377v-378.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Leicester 23 Oct. 1640–d.Freemen of Leicester ed. Hartopp, 126.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee. for examinations, 18 Feb. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee for Examinations’; CJ ii. 396a, 439b. cttee. for sequestrations, by May 1645;SP20/1, f. 377. cttee. for the army, 15 Dec. 1648,CJ vi. 96b; LJ x. 630b. 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;A. and O. cttee. for the revenue, 18 Dec. 1648;CJ vi. 99a; LJ x. 632b. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649. Commr. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 113b. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 19 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 121b. cttee. of navy and customs by 8 Feb. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 13. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb. 1651, 25 Nov. 1652.A. and O.; CJ vii. 220b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 22 May 1651.CJ vi. 577b.

Local: commr. disarming recusants, Leics. 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385b. Dep. lt. Rutland 5 July 1642–?CJ ii. 652b; LJ v. 183. Commr. for associating midland cos. Leics. 15 Dec. 1642;A. and O. Leics. militia, 16 Jan. 1643, 10 July 1644;An Examination Examined (1645), 15 (E.303.13); A. and O. assessment, Leics. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Rutland 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Northants. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; sequestration, Leics. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, Leics., Rutland 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. Kpr. Olney Park, Bucks. by Apr. 1645–?;Luke Letter Bks. 513. Holdenby House, Northants. by Mar. 1646 – aft.Sept. 1648; Whittlewood Forest, Northants. and Bucks. by Mar 1646-aft. Oct. 1649;Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 218; [C. Walker*], Hist. of Independency (1648), 172 (E.463.19); CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 367. Hyde Park c.Mar. 1650–7 Feb. 1653.CJ vi. 384b; SP18/38/72, f. 144. Commr. defence of Rutland, 21 June 1645.A. and O. J.p. Rutland 15 Jan. 1647-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 74; C193/13/4, f. 79v. Leics. 18 May 1649–d.;C231/6, p. 151. Bucks. by Feb. 1650 – 12 July 1653, 4 Oct. 1653–d.;C193/13/3; C231/6, pp. 259, 270. Northants. 2 Mar. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 176; C193/13/4, f. 71. Commr. militia, Leics., Rutland 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Beds., Northants., Notts. 24 Aug. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 303. Custos. rot. Leics. 18 May 1649–d.;C231/6, p. 151. Rutland 10 Dec. 1649-c.1653.C231/6, p. 170 Steward, Honor of Leicester 4 Sept. 1649–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 179. Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 14, 214. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 12 June 1654.C181/6, p. 37.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) by 15 July 1642–?SP28/170, pt. 3, unfol. Serg.-maj.-gen. E. Midlands Assoc. 24 Dec. 1642-c.Apr. 1645.CJ ii. 901b. Col. militia horse, Leics. 5 June 1648,Desiderata Curiosa ed. F. Peck (1735), pp. ii, lib. ix, 45; HMC Portland, i. 468; CJ v. 620b. 5 Mar. 1650;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505. c.-in-c. Leics., Northants. and Rutland 12 Aug. 1651.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 516. Gov. Ashby-de-la-Zouch 29 Aug. 1648–?CJ v. 692a.

Parlimentarian
GREY, Thomas, Ld. Grey of Groby (c.1623-57), of Bradgate, Groby, Leics.
: Ld. Grey of Groby (c.1623-57), of Bradgate, Leics., Groby 1623 – 57.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, attrib. R. Walker;Private colln. oils, unknown;Newnham Paddox, Warws. oil on canvas, unknown, eighteenth century.NT, Dunham Massey.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

GREY, Thomas, Ld. Grey of Groby (c.1623-57), of Bradgate, Groby, Leics.

Will
4 Apr. 1657, pr. 8 May 1657.PROB11/263, f. 377v.
Estates
in 1650, purchased for £1,930 fee farm rents in Leics. and Rutland worth £226 p.a. – some, or all, of which he had sold by late 1653.SP28/288, f. 5; SP46/109, f. 73; Stowe 185, f. 38. In 1651, mortgaged lands in Aunby, Careby and Essendine, Lincs. for £800.Lincs. RO, Holywell 54/16, 18-19, 23. In 1653, Grey and three other gent. purchased Combe Abbey, Warws. from treason trustees for £42,000; Grey reportedly selling land worth £800 p.a. to help finance this purchase.C54/3705/7; CCC 1624; Clarke Pprs.v. 86. In 1654, Grey, Thomas Beaumont*, Thomas Pochin* and another gent. sold manor and advowson of Whepstead, Suff. for £5,840.C54/3820/13-14. At his d. estate inc. manor of Broughton Astley and lands in Primethorpe and Sutton-in-Elms, Leics.PROB11/263, f. 377v.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Exeter House, St John’s, Clerkenwell, Mdx. (1644-5).Luke Letter Bks. 343, 513.
Religion
presented Charles Asfordby to rectory of Hartest cum Boxted, Suff., 1650; Henry Coleman to rectory of Little Laver, Essex, 1653.Add. 36792, ff. 5v, 86v.
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