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Grey, Sir Edward

(Encyclopedia) Grey, Sir Edward: see Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount.

Grey, Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl

(Encyclopedia) Grey, Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl, 1851–1917, English statesman, nephew of the 3d Earl Grey. In 1880 he entered the House of Commons as a Liberal, but he lost his seat as a…

Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount

(Encyclopedia) Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st ViscountGrey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscountfălˈədən [key], 1862–1933, British statesman. He entered Parliament as a Liberal in 1885 and…

Grey, Lady Jane

(Encyclopedia) Grey, Lady Jane, 1537–54, queen of England for nine days. She was the daughter of Henry Grey, marquess of Dorset (later duke of Suffolk), and Frances Brandon, daughter of Henry VIII's…

Suffolk, Henry Grey, duke of

(Encyclopedia) Suffolk, Henry Grey, duke of, d. 1554, English nobleman. He became 3d marquess of Dorset on his father's death (1530), and in 1534 he married Frances, daughter of Charles Brandon, duke…

Brewer's: Greys

The Scotch Greys. The 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons, so called because they are mounted on grey horses. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Joel Grey

Joel Grey(Joel Katz)actor, singer, dancerBorn: 4/11/1932Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio The son of renowned nightclub performer and producer Mickey Katz, Joel Grey grew up amid song, dance, and glitz. He…

Zane Grey

Name at birth: Pearl Zane GreyZane Grey was a prolific and popular author of novels about the wild west of the United States, best known for his 1912 novel Riders of the Purple Sage. For nearly…

Grey, Zane

(Encyclopedia) Grey, Zane, 1872–1939, American writer of Western stories, b. Zanesville, Ohio, as Pearl Zane Gray, grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1896. His melodramatic tales of the West and Southwest…

Shipton, Mother

(Encyclopedia) Shipton, Mother, legendary English prophetess. She was first mentioned in an anonymous pamphlet, published in 1641, which described her as having prophesied various events of the reign…