Philip Kent Grey, 7th Earl Grey (11 May 1940 – 5 November 2023) was a British naval pilot and hereditary peer.
Early life Philip Kent Grey was born on 11 May 1940 to Albert Harry George Campbell Grey and Vera Helen Louise Harding. His father, born in Ottawa, Ontario, was serving as a Trooper with the Canadian Armoured Corps when he died at Hove in 1942, of peritonitis, following an accident."Albert Harry George Campbell Grey" in England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976, accessed 12 March 2025
His great-great-grandfather Admiral George Grey (1809–1891) was a younger son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He had an elder brother, Richard, who succeeded to the peerage in 1963, following the death of Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey, their second cousin twice removed.
Career Grey served as a Navigating Officer in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was also a licensed Trinity House sea pilot and a master mariner.Burke's Peerage, volume 2 (2003), page 1664.
Philip Grey succeeded his elder brother in 2013, becoming the 7th Earl Grey."Earl Grey", The Daily Telegraph, 11 October 2013, , at archive.ph
Personal life In 1964, Grey's mother Vera Grey died at Tavistock, aged 52."Vera H L Grey" in England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Tavistock Volume 7a, Page 781
In 1968, Grey married Ann Catherine Applegate, with whom he had two children: Alexander Edward, later 8th Earl Grey (born 20 December 1968) and Lady Vanessa Catherine (born 1975). In 2003, he lived at Valley Cottage, Kingsbridge, Devon.
Lord Grey died in Portsmouth on 5 November 2023, at the age of 83.
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