Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham
Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham, of Merton Hall, Norfolk, was a British peer.
Life
Grey was born in Chelsea, the eldest son of the Venerable Thomas de Grey, Archdeacon of Surrey, a clergyman who in 1831 succeeded his brother George de Grey, 3rd Baron Walsingham, as the result of a house fire.He studied law at Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister in 1827. In 1839 he succeeded his father as Lord Walsingham.
He married firstly in 1842 Augusta Louisa Frankland-Russell, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Frankland-Russell, 7th Baronet, of Thirkleby, Yorkshire, with whom he had a son, Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham.
After the death of his wife, Walsingham married secondly the Hon. Emily Elizabeth Julia Thellusson, daughter and coheiress of John Thellusson, 2nd Baron Rendlesham, with whom he had another four sons and four daughters:
- John Augustus de Grey, 7th Baron Walsingham
- Hon. Emily Augusta Louisa married the Hon. Alfred Chetwynd-Talbot, son of Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury. They had three sons, and two daughters.
- Hon. Beatrice. Like her sister, she too married a son of Lord Shrewsbury, Admiral Walter Cecil Carpenter on 10 February 1887. They had no children.
- Hon. Mabel. Unmarried.
- Rev. Hon. Arnald married Margaret Maria Ponsonby, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Spencer Cecil Ponsonby-Fane. They had two sons, Michael and Nigel de Grey.
- Hon. Robert Baynard. Unmarried.
- Hon. Elizabeth Odeyne married Rev. Francis Hodgson, son of Sir Arthur Hodgson KCMG. They had one daughter, Avis.