Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
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Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, PC was a British Whig politician and a scion of the noble House of Grey. He held office under four Prime Ministers, Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdeen, and
Grey in the 1860s
Great Famine (Ireland)
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The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. It constituted a major historical so
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
…hierarchy changed the nature of party politics. Grey's first tenure at the Home Office notably saw him deal with relief efforts to the victims of the Great Famine of Ireland and trying to subdue the Irish rebellion of 1848. The latter year also saw the peak of the Chartist movement, which staged a massive rally in London…
Scene at Skibbereen during the Great Famine, The Illustrated London News, 1847
A potato infected with late blight, showing typical rot symptoms
An 1845 painting depicting the forced eviction of Irish tenants during the Famine era
An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store by Cork artist Daniel MacDonald, c. 1847