page_title: Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
section_title: Marriage and progeny
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham / Marriage and progeny
context_page_description: Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham PC was a British statesman. He notably served as Foreign Secretary between 1782 and 1783.
context_section_description: In 1780 Lord Grantham married Lady Mary Yorke (1757-1830), younger daughter of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke by his wife Lady Jemima Campbell (1723-1797), suo jure 2nd Marchioness Grey, a daughter of John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland by his wife Lady Amabel Grey, a daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent (1671-1740).
  In 1740 Lord Grantham's mother-in-law Lady Jemima Campbell (1723-1797) succeeded as 2nd Marchioness Grey by a special remainder upon the death of her maternal grandfather Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, 1st Marquess Grey, 3rd Baron Lucas. As she had no male heirs, the title later became extinct upon her own death in 1797, but in 1816 her elder daughter Lady Amabel Yorke (1750–1833) (wife of Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth) was created  Countess de Grey in her own right.
  Lord Grantham and his wife lived at Grantham House in Whitehall Yard, Westminster. By his wife  had two sons:
  Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, eldest son and heir. He was born as Thomas Philip Robinson, his surname was Weddell from 1803 and de Grey from 1833.
  Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, 1st Earl of Ripon  (1782–1859), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1827 and 1828.
caption: James Grant of Grant, John Mytton, the Hon. Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Wynne by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1760.
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