Collection search - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and family collection [textual record (chiefly microform)]

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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and family collection [textual record (chiefly microform)]

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Collection

Date:

1813-1893.

Reference:

R2447-0-0-E, MG24-A10

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105102

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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and family collection
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Collection includes:

3 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1813-1893.

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Extent:

2.09 m of textual records : some photocopies.
9 microfilm reels : negative and positive.

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of selections of Canadian interest from the papers of Charles, second Earl Grey, photocopy, 1813-1842; Henry George, Viscount Howick and third Earl, originals and photocopies, 1828-1893; and General Charles Grey, diaries and other records, 1834-1841. Microfilmed material includes copy of diaries, 1829-1852 of Earl Grey and his wife giving detailed records of British political affairs, and microfilmed correspondence, 1828-1893 to and from a great variety of correspondents on Canadian affairs, including Edward Ellice. Microfilmed material is located on reels A-403 to A-405, A-576 to A-580 and A-706.

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Grey (family)

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Canada. Legislative Council

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Grey (family) : Charles Grey, second Earl Grey, Viscount Howick and Baron Grey (1764-1845), British statesman and military officer, was a classical scholar, prominent member of the Whig Club and the Whig Party, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1806; Foreign Secretary, 1806-1807; and Prime Minister, 1831-1834.

His eldest son, Henry George Grey, Viscount Howick (1799-1882) was Under Secretary for War and the Colonies, 1830-1833; Secretary for War, 1835-1839; and after succeeding his father as third Earl Grey in 1846, served as Secretary for War and the Colonies, 1846-1852.

Charles Grey (1804-1870), a brother of Henry George Grey, served in Canada as Colonel of the 71st Regiment. He was seconded by Lord Durham for special services one of which was to carry a message to the President of the United States; another was to assist in the deliberations of the Special Council as to the fate of political prisoners. In 1839, he returned to England but was back in Canada with his regiment in November, 1840. He eventually attained the rank of General in 1865.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid describes the papers in volumes 1 to 39 indicating which part of the papers are originals held by the National Archives of Canada and which part of the papers have been photocopied, or microfilmed, together with descriptive lists of these. MSS0176 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001181.pdf

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General note:

The "Elgin-Grey" correspondence and two diaries of Charles Grey (volumes 21-33, 4 and 6) were presented by Albert Grey (1851-1917), fourth Earl Grey, in 1910, while he was Governor General of Canada (see further MG 27, II B 2).
Microfilm of those documents and others were subsequently acquired: reels A-403 to A-405 in 1959, reels A-576 to A-580 in 1963, and reel A-706 in 1967. At various times, portions of the papers have been transcribed and photocopies have been made from the microfilms.

Location of originals note:

Photocopies were made of selected documents, between 1954 and 1956, from the original Grey family papers at the University of Durham (volumes 1, 3, 5, and 9).

Related material:

The papers of Albert (1851-1917), fourth Earl Grey, who was Governor General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, are described in MG 27 II B 2.
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Great Britain - Commerce - Canada

Canada 19th century

Statesmen - Great Britain, 1813-1893 Lord Durham, 1837-1840

Great Britain. Army - Officers, 1813-1893 Edward Ellice, 1813-1822

Boundary disputes, 1798 John Galt, 1834

New Brunswick - Boundaries - Maine, 1798 Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1842

Maine - Boundaries - New Brunswick, 1798 C.P. Thomson, 1832

Montreal (Quebec) - Meteorology - Observations, 1839 Lord Russell, [1829-1852]

St. John (Lower Canada) - Meteorology - Observations, 1839 Lord Melbourne, [1829-1852]

Great Britain - Politics and government, 1829-1893 Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, 1846-1852

Colonies - Administration, 1829-1852

Colonies - British North America, 1829-1852

Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1829-1852

Great Britain - Emigration and immigration, 1829-1852

Great Britain - Commerce, 1829-1852

British North America - Commerce, 1829-1852

Grey family, 1813-1893

Fisheries - British North America, 1829-1852

Great Britain. Army - Canada, 1829-1852

Great Britain - Armed Forces - Canada, 1829-1852

Great Britain - Colonial Office - Despatches, 1829-1852

Church of England - Canada, 1822-1852

Religion - Canada, 1829-1852

Finance - Canada, 1829-1859

Land policy - Canada, 1829-1852

Canada - Commerce - Great Britain, 1829-1852

Great Britain - Colonial policy

Canada

Great Britain

Grande-Bretagne
Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG24-A10
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 A 10]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1;

[Consultation 90 Open]

3--40;

[Consultation 90 Open]

2/X1;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 176] 26

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation95 Open, no copying]

Microfilm reel [MG24 A 10]

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

A-403--A-405;

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

A-576--A-580;

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

A-706;

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

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