Ralph Grey (MP)
Ralph William Grey was a British Whig politician.
He was the son of Ralph William Grey of Backworth House, Northumberland, and his wife Ann was the daughter of Rev. Sir Samuel Jervoise, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Eton College. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836, graduating B.A. in 1840. In 1839 he became private secretary to Charles [Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham|Charles Poulett Thomson], shortly to become Baron Sydenham and the first Governor General of Canada.
At the 1847 [United Kingdom general election|1847 general election] he was elected unopposed as the Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament] for Tynemouth and [North Shields (UK Parliament constituency)|Tynemouth and North Shields], but in 1852 he narrowly lost the seat to his Conservative opponent by 340 votes to 328. He returned to Parliament of [the United Kingdom|Parliament] two years later when he was elected for Liskeard at a by-election in March 1854, and was re-elected at the general elections in 1857 and 1859. He resignation from the British [House of Commons|resigned] from the House of Commons on 6 August 1859 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.