Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent
Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent( 1541 – 31 January 1615) was an English peer.
He was a son of Henry Grey( 1520 – 1545) and Margaret St. John and grandson of Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent.
He was a younger brother of Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent and an older brother of Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent.
He served as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire from 1586 to his death.
In 1587 he was one of the official witnesses at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
He was married to Mary Cotton, daughter of Sir George Cotton and Mary Onley.
There were no known children from the marriage; he was thus succeeded by his younger brother, Charles.
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent (24 November 1594 – 28 May 1651), known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in 1643.
Grey was the eldest son of Rev. Anthony Grey, 9th Earl of Kent, and his wife Magdalene Purefoy, daughter of William Purefoy of Caldecote, Warwickshire.
His father was rector of Aston Flamville, Leicestershire.
Grey became Lord Ruthin on 21 November 1639.
In April 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Leicestershire for the Short Parliament but did not sit in the Long Parliament.
On 4 June 1642 Grey was chosen by the parliament as first commissioner of the militia in Leicestershire.
He inherited the title as Earl of Kent on the death of his father in 1643.
On 16 August 1644 he became a commissioner of martial law and on 24 August be became Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.
He became speaker of the House of Lords on 13 February 1645.
He was resworn first commissioner of the great seal on 20 March 1645, and continued in office until 30 October 1646, when the seal was given to the speakers of the two houses.
He was Custos Rotulorum of Bedfordshire and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire by parliament on the Long Parliament on 2 July 1646 and held the position until his death.
Grey became speaker of the House of Lords on 6 September 1647 and became a member of the committee of the navy and customs on 17 December 1647.
He was one of the lords commissioners who took the four bills to the king at the Isle of Wight, and had to bring them back unsigned.
In January 1648, he was selected to replace Earl of Essex as one of the seven peers on the Derby House Committee soon after it replaced the Committee of Both Kingdoms as Parliament's principal proto-executive body.
On 17 March 1648, he was renominated chief commissioner of the great seal together with another lord and two commoners, but took no part in the trial or death of the king.
He remained in office until the commons voted the abolition of the House of Lords on 6 February 1649, and two days after placed the seal in other hands.
Grey married firstly Mary Courteen, daughter of Sir William Courteen and had a son Henry Grey who is believed to have died young.
Mary died on 9 March 1644 and he married secondly on 1 August 1644 Annabel or Amabel Benn, daughter of Sir Anthony Benn and widow of Anthony Fane, the third surviving son of Francis Fane.
They had two children: Anthony, who inherited the earldom, and Elizabeth, who married Banastre Maynard, 3rd Baron Maynard.
Grey died aged 56 and a monument to his memory was erected by his widow in Flitton Church, Bedfordshire.
Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent
Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent( c. 1495 – 24 September 1562) was Earl of Kent from 1524 to his death.
He was a son of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent and his second wife Catherine Herbert.
His maternal grandparents were William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux.
His father was previously married to Anne Woodville, a daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
His only known paternal half- brother was Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent.
Richard succeeded their father as Earl of Kent but wound up heavily in debt, probably through gambling, and was forced to alienate most of his property.
A good part ended up in the crown's hands; historians disagree regarding what this says about the relationship of Henry VII of England with the aristocracy.
When Richard died childless, Henry inherited the title of Earl of Kent and what was left of the associated property.
Henry tried, with little success, to reacquire the property Richard had sold, and had to live as a modest gentleman, never formally taking title as earl.
He married Anne Blennerhassett daughter of John Blennerhassett and Jane Higham.
They had two children:
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
George Philip Nicholas Windsor, Earl of St Andrews( born 26 June 1962) is the elder son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and his wife Katharine, Duchess of Kent.
He is styled Earl of St Andrews, one of his father's subsidiary titles, which he holds by courtesy as heir apparent to the Dukedom of Kent.
Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent
Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent( c. 1583 – 21 November 1639) of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire was Earl of Kent from 1623 to his death.
He was born the only son of Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent and his wife Susan Cotton and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
On 16 November 1601, at St Martin- in- the- Fields, Henry married Elizabeth Talbot( 1582 – 7 December 1651), a daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Cavendish.
There were no known children from this marriage.
He was knighted in 1603.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Tavistock in 1601 and knight of the shire for Bedfordshire in 1614.
He served as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire from 1621 to 1627 and again from 1629 to his death.
From 1621 to 1623, Henry held the title jointly with his father Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent.
From 1625 to 1627 and again from 1629 to his death, he held the title jointly with Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland.
He died childless and his primary title as Earl of Kent was inherited by his closest male- line relative, Anthony Grey, 9th Earl of Kent, the Rector of Burbage, Leicestershire.
Anthony was a second cousin of his father as they were both great- grandsons of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
His title of Baron Grey de Ruthyn was awarded by the House of Lords to his nephew Charles Longueville, 12th Baron Grey de Ruthyn, son of his sister Susan.
William Feilding, 11th Earl of Denbigh
William Rudolph Michael Feilding, 11th Earl of Denbigh( 1943 – 1995)( Peerage of England, cr 1622), and 10th Earl of Desmond( Peerage of Ireland, also cr 1622) died on 23 March 1995.
He married Caroline Judith Vivienne Cooke on 2 September 1965.
They had three children: Lady Samantha, Lady Louisa, and Alexander, the current 12th Earl of Denbigh and 11th Earl of Desmond.
Anthony Grey, 9th Earl of Kent
Rev. Anthony Grey (1557 – 9 November 1643) was Earl of Kent from 1639 to his death.
He was a son of George Gray by Margery, daughter of Gerard Salvaine of Croxdale.
George was the apparently only son of Anthony Gray of Brancepeth, a son of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, by his second wife Katherine (or Katharine or Catherine), daughter of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
In 1639, Gray succeeded his childless second cousin once removed Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent.
Henry was a great-grandson of Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent, another son of the 2nd Earl.
A priest in the Church of England, Gray was rector at Aston Flamville and later Burbage.
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent( 1454 – 25 December 1505) was the son of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and Lady Katherine Percy.
He was the Second Earl of Kent from 1490 to 1505.
Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent
Anthony Grey (1645 – 19 August 1702) was Earl of Kent from 1651 to his death.
He was the only son of Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, and his second wife Amabel Benn daughter of Anthony Benn, Recorder of London.
His sister Elizabeth Grey married Banastre Maynard, 3rd Baron Maynard.
They were parents of Henry Maynard, 4th Baron Maynard, Grey Maynard, 5th Baron Maynard, and Charles Maynard, 1st Viscount Maynard.
Anthony married Mary Lucas, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell,
only surviving child of John Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Shenfield, and Anne Nevill.
Anne was a daughter of Sir Christopher Nevill and Mary Darcy.
Christopher was a son of Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny, and Rachel Lennard.
They had two children:
Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury
Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, 11th Earl of Waterford( 1623 – 16 March 1668), was an English peer who was a Royalist officer in the English Civil War.
He survived the war only to be mortally wounded in a duel with the Duke of Buckingham who was having an affair with his wife.

Question: Which country Anthony Grey, 11Th Earl Of Kent's father is from?
Answer: English