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SIR EDWARD GREY

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 588 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDWARD See also:GREY  , 3rd See also:Bart . (1862– ), See also:English statesman, was educated at See also:Winchester and at Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, and succeeded his grandfather, the 2nd See also:baronet, at the See also:age of twenty . He entered the See also:House of See also:Commons as Liberal member for See also:Berwick-on-See also:Tweed in 1885, but he was best known as a See also:country See also:gentleman with a See also:taste for See also:sport, and as See also:amateur See also:champion See also:tennis-player . His See also:interest in politics was rather languid, but he was a See also:disciple of See also:Lord See also:Rosebery, and in the 1892–1895 Liberal See also:ministry he was under-secretary for See also:foreign affairs . In this position he earned a reputation as a politician of thorough straightforwardness and grit, and as one who would maintain See also:British interests independently of party; and he shared with Mr See also:Asquith the reputation of being the ablest of the Imperialists who followed Lord Rosebery . Though outside foreign affairs he played but a small See also:part in the See also:period of Liberal opposition between 1895 and 1905, he retained public confidence as one who was indispensable to a Liberal See also:administration.' When See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Campbell-Bannerman's See also:cabinet was formed in See also:December 1905 he became foreign See also:minister, and he retained this See also:office when in See also:April 19o8 Mr Asquith became See also:prime minister .

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