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George Grey | |
Only son of Lieutenant-colonel Grey of the 30th Foot regiment, who commanded a division of the storming party at the fall of Badajoz and was mortally wounded in the third assault there eight days before his son was born |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
12 April 1812 | | Born (Lisbon) |
1829 | | Commission in the 83rd Foot |
1833 | | Lieutenant |
December 1837 | | Landed near Hanover Bay, on the north-western coast of Western Australia on a Royal Geographical Society sponsored expedition |
1839 | | Captain |
1839 | | Sold commission and left army |
1839 | | Married Eliza Lucy (1822-1898), daughter of Captain Sir Richard Spencer R.N. K.C.H. (1779-1839) |
1839 | | Sailed from Perth to explore the west near Shark's Bay |
15 May 1841 | 25 October 1845 | Governor of South Australia |
18 November 1845 | 31 December 1853 | Governor of New Zealand |
27 April 1848 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath), civil |
5 December 1854 | 15 August 1861 | Governor of Southern Africa |
4 December 1861 | 5 February 1868 | Governor of New Zealand |
1868 | | Returned to England |
1871 | | Returned to New Zealand |
24 March 1875 | 31 October 1875 | Superintendent of the province of Auckland and member of the House of Representatives for Auckland City |
13 October 1877 | 8 October 1879 | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
1894 | | Returned to England |
20 September 1898 | | Died (London) |
According to the DNB: 'His opinions were a curious compound of democratic idealism akin to Jefferson's, and a species of pacific imperialism'. |