[Illustration] An eminent border family, of which there have been
many branches, descended from Thomas Grey of Heton, living in the
second of Edward I. (1273), and from Sir John Grey of Berwick,
living in 1372, who was ancestor of the baronial house of Grey of
Wark and Chillingham, and of the Howick family, founded by Sir
Edward Grey of Howick, who died in 1532, and was the fourth son of.
Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham.
"No family perhaps in the whole of England," writes Raine in his
admirable History of North Durham, "has in the course of the
centuries through which the line of Grey can be traced, afforded so
great a variety of character."
Younger Branches. Sir George Grey, Baronet 1814, and Grey of
Morwick, co. Northumberland.
See the curious and valuable "Illustrations of the Pedigree of
Grey," in Raine's North Durham, p. 327, &c.; Surtees's Durham, ii.
19; and Brydges's Collins, v. 676.
ARMS.--_Gules, a lion rampant within a border engrailed argent, a
mullet for difference_. The present coat was borne by Monsieur
Thomas Grey, as appears by the Roll of the reign of Richard II.
Present Representative, Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, K. G.
+Gentle.+