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MARQUESS OF See also:DORSET See also:THOMAS See also:GREY (1451-1501)  , was the See also:elder son of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Grey, 7th See also:Lord See also:Ferrers of Groby (1432-1461), by his wife See also:Elizabeth Woodville, afterwards See also:queen of The Grey See also:Edward IV . He fought for Edward at See also:Tewkesbury, tine. and became Lord See also:Harington and Bonville by right of his wife See also:Cecilia, daughter of See also:William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington (d . 146o) ; in 1475 he was created See also:marquess of See also:Dorset, and he was also a See also:knight of the Garter and a privy councillor . After the See also:death of Edward IV . Dorset and his See also:brother See also:Richard Grey were among the supporters of their See also:half-brother, the See also:young See also:king Edward V.; thus they incurred the enmity of Richard See also:duke of See also:Gloucester, afterwards Richard III., and Richard Grey having been arrested, was beheaded at See also:Pontefract in See also:June 1483, while his elder brother, the marquess, saved his See also:life by See also:flight . Dorset was one of the leaders of the duke of See also:Buckingham's insurrection, and when this failed he joined See also:Henry See also:earl of See also:Richmond in See also:Brittany, but he was See also:left behind in See also:Paris when the future king crossed over to See also:England in 1485 . After Henry's victory at See also:Bosworth the marquess returned to England and his See also:attainder was reversed, but he was suspected and imprisoned when See also:Lambert See also:Simnel revolted; he had, however, been released and pardoned, had marched into See also:France and had helped to quell the Cornish rising, when he died on the 20th of See also:September 1501 . Dorset's See also:sixth son, Lord Leonard Grey (c . 1490-1541), went to See also:Ireland as See also:marshal of the See also:English See also:army in 1535, being created an Irish peer as See also:Viscount Grane in the same See also:year, but he never assumed this See also:title . In 1536 Grey was appointed lord See also:deputy of Ireland in See also:succession to Sir William See also:Skeffington; he was active in marching against the rebels and he presided over the important See also:parliament of 1536, but he was soon at variance with the powerful See also:family of the Butlers and with some of the privy councillors . He did not relax his See also:energy in seeking to restore See also:order, but he was accused, probably with truth, of favouring the family of the Geraldines, to whom he was related, and the See also:quarrel with the Butlers became fiercer than ever . Returning to England in 1540 he was thrown into See also:prison and was condemned to death for See also:treason .

He was beheaded on the 28th of See also:

July 1541 (see R . Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol. i., 1885) .

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