[GREY (Charles, 1764-1845, 2nd Earl, Prime Minister of the Reform Bill)]

Group of 5 different engraved portraits, all half length, by I.R.West (7½" x 5", London Magazine, Dec. 1820), R. Page from an original drawing, in peer's robes (5½" x 8¾", c. 1820), published by G. Smeeton (4¾" x 3", 15th November 1823), R. Hicks after T. Phillips (6½" x 4", pub. Fisher, 1831), and H. Cook after R. Scanlan, wearing the Garter Star (10¾" x 8", c. 1840), with a very interesting and searching printed account of his political life from 1786, 4 folio pages headed with Grey's arms and numbered [5]-8, c. small defect in blank right margin of second portrait

The biography is not afraid to praise (the Anti-Slavery Bill in 1807, Grey's eloquence for Reform) or blame (the Coercive Measures in Ireland, which the writer attributes to the "the fatal influence of the Irish Secretary, Mr. ... Stanley", and the irritation Grey allowed himself to feel against O'Connell). The writer, in noting wide reversals of policy over forty or fifty years, never doubts that they were made from honest motives.

Item Date:  1840

Stock No:  51297      £150

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