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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13

March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between

1806 and 1807, was Prime

Minister of the United

Kingdom from November 1830 to July 1834. A member of the Whig Party, he was a

long-time leader of multiple reform movements, most famously the Reform Act 1832. His government also saw the abolition of slavery in

the British Empire, in which the government purchased slaves from their owners

in 1833. Grey was a strong opponent of the foreign and domestic policies

of William Pitt the Younger in

the 1790s. In 1807, he resigned as foreign secretary to protest the King's

uncompromising rejection of Catholic Emancipation.

Grey finally resigned in 1834 over disagreements in his cabinet regarding

Ireland, and retired from politics. His biographer G. M. Trevelyan argues: in our domestic history 1832 is

the next great landmark after 1688 ... [It] saved

the land from revolution and civil strife and made possible the quiet progress

of the Victorian era.

Scholars

rank him highly among all British prime ministers. Earl Grey tea is named after him. Descended from a

long-established Northumbrian family seated at Howick Hall, Grey was the second but eldest surviving son of

General Charles Grey KB (1729–1807) and his wife, Elizabeth (1743/4–1822),

daughter of George Grey of Southwick, co. Durham. He had four brothers and two

sisters. He was educated at Richmond School, followed by Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, acquiring a facility in Latin and

in English composition and declamation that enabled him to become one of the

foremost parliamentary orators of his generation. He became the second Earl

Grey, Viscount Howick and Baron Grey of Howick on 14 November 1807 upon the

death of his father. Upon the death of his uncle on 30 March 1808 he became the

third Baronet Grey of Howick.