Eliza Courtney
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Elizabeth Courtney was the illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and socialite Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana
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Her mother, Georgiana, a stipple engraving (published 1782) after a drawing by Lady Diana Beauclerk dated 1779
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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey was a British Whig politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834. His government enacted the Reform Acts of 1832, which expanded the elect
Eliza Courtney
…Elizabeth Courtney (20 February 1792 – 2 May 1859) was the illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and socialite Georgiana Cavendish (née Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana was married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. The…
Portrait by an unknown artist after Sir Thomas Lawrence c. 1828
In Charon's Boat (1807), James Gillray caricatured the Whig administration, with Grey as Charon, rowing the boat
Portrait of Earl Grey by Thomas Phillips, 1820
Grey's Monument in Newcastle upon Tyne