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Grey, Edward (Viscount Grey of Fallodon) British politician, foreign secretary, author. Born 25 April 1862 in London, England. Died 07 September 1933 in Fallodon, England. Grey was the longest-serving British foreign secretary of the 20 th century. His time in office is controversial for his role in the outbreak of the First World War.
17 de mai. de 2022 · The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office in early August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world.The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
7 de dez. de 2015 · Edward Grey. Grey was in office from 1905 to 1916 and is chiefly remembered for being Foreign Secretary when Britain entered the First World War in 1914. Created Viscount Grey of Fallodon in 1916, he died on 7 September 1933. Soon after his death a committee was formed to devise a fitting tribute to keep alive his memory as a statesman and ...
9 de jun. de 2022 · Grey did not have the benefit of his critics’ hindsight. Otte pinpoints the difficult situation in which Grey found himself during the July Crisis, trying to nurture newly improved relations with Germany without letting down Britain’s Entente partner, France, and its ally Russia. “If Britain acted with the Franco-Russian bloc, it could ...
Sir Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), was born in 1862. Educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, Grey was elected to Parliament as a Liberal member in 1892, representing the seat of Berwick-on-Tweed. Grey served twice as Foreign Secretary, firstly from 1892-95 in Gladstone's final administration, and then from 1905 ...
Edward Grey. Edward Grey may refer to: Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), British Liberal Foreign Secretary in First World War. Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (died 1492), English nobleman who was created Viscount Lisle in 1483. Eddie Grey (1918–2004), Sri Lankan sportsman and police officer.
In 1916 Grey was made a viscount and became leader of the House of Lords. He died near Embleton, Northumberland, England, on September 7, 1933. (1862–1933). The British statesman Sir Edward Grey served as foreign secretary for 11 years (1905–16), the longest unbroken term in that office in history. He is best….
