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Sir Charles Grey, First Earl Grey
Considering Grey's importance, and the prominence of the family he helped to found, it is surprising that he has been neglected by history. Only a short sketch in the Dictionary of National Biography, and an article by Sir John Fortescue in the Edinburgh Review have ever attempted even perfunctory assessments of his life. As a man and an army officer, Grey represented some of the best qualities of eighteenth-century British civilization. In America, he fought during the War of American Independence and in 1794 in the West Indies against France. Hence, as Nelson shows, his career is important in American History. Given his long service to the British nation in all her wars from 1744 to 1800, it is clear from Nelson's account that Grey is an important character in British history as well. During his lifetime, Grey proved himself a reliable and successful soldier, earning and deserving all his honors: Knight of the Bath in 1782, baron in 1801, viscount and earl in 1806.
Sir Edward Grey
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Twenty-Five Years: 1892-1916 - Vol. II
GREAT BRITAIN’S brilliant statesman, Foreign Secretary during the early years of the war, tells the story of the twenty-five years from 1892 to 1916 inclusive—an account of the most momentous period in modern history by the man who was for a longer time continuously in charge of Foreign Affairs than any other minister in the world. Lord Grey enters deeply into British-American relations—revealing for the first time many important transactions hitherto unknown to the public—and has much to say of Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Hines Page and Colonel House, giving us some Roosevelt letters never before published. He also gives the text of the confidential memorandum presented to him by Colonel House which stated the peace terms President Wilson would attempt to secure. The outstanding work of the year, supplementing in many interesting ways “The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page.” Richly illustrated throughout with photographs.
Fallodon Papers
A slim volume of essays by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, first published in 1926, this book is a collection of seven addresses he gave on subjects such as reading, nature, and public life. The essays range from 1919-1924. In these stimulating and delightful papers, written at his ancestral home at Fallodon in Northumberland, England’s foreign minister tells of those aspects of life from which he drew refreshment and lasting pleasure. Included is his famous essay on “The Fly-Fisherman,” which appeared in this book for the first time in 1926. The Viscount’s essays were presented as lectures and as he was unable to read from a manuscript, owing to poor eyesight, he delivered his thoughts with no notes at all, relying on a shorthand writer to record the words for print. Full essay list: “The Pleasure of Reading;” “Pleasure in Outdoor Nature;” “Recreation;” “Some Thoughts on Public Life;” “Waterfowl at Fallodon;” “The Fly-Fisherman;” “Wordsworth’s ‘Prelude’.” Beautifully illustrated throughout with art deco woodcuts. An unmissable addition to any World War I library.
Sir Edward Grey
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Statesman of Europe
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world. The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Statesman of Europe describes the three decades before the First World War through the prism of his biography, which is based almost entirely on archival sources and presents a detailed account of the main do...
Edwardian Requiem
A biography of Sir Edward Grey, one of the most important characters in British foreign affairs in the first part of the 20th century, best remembered for his portentous remark at the outbreak of the Great War, 'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time'.
