Barony created in 1780. The present Baron (the 9th) is John de Grey, M.C., b. 1925, s. 1965, who lives at Merton Hall, built about the year 1613, on the site of a house which had been in possession of the de Grey family since the middle of the fourteenth century.
For a brief History of the family, See: Merton (White's 1854).
And for the family estate and family memorials, See: Merton (kelly's 1937)
Sir Thos. de Grey, who settled at Merton Hall in 1337.
Edmund de Grey, (d. 1548)
Merton (Kelly's 1937)
Thomas de Grey, (d. 1556),
Merton (Kelly's 1937)
Thomas de Grey, (d. 1562)
Merton (Kelly's 1937)
- Sir Wm. de Grey (1719-1780).
- Successively Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
- Created Baron Walsingham of Walsingham, 1780.
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron, (d.1818)
George de Gray, 3rd Baron, (d. 1839)
- Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron; and successors
See: Stanford; Sturston; and West Tofts (White's 1845)
- Great Ellingham; Merton; Stanford; Sturston; Thompson; Tottington; and Tottington (White's 1854)
- Caston; Great Ellingham; Griston; Merton; Stanford; Stow Bedon; Sturston; Swaffham;
- Thompson; Tottington; Watton; and West Tofts (Kelly's 1883)
- Sturston; and Tottington; (White's 1883)
- Stanford; and Sturston (Kelly's 1925)
- Merton; and Sturston (Kelly's 1937)
- and Miss Reeve; and Stanta [= Stanford Training Area]
Lt.-Col Hon. George de Grey D.S.O.
See: Sturston (Kelly's 1925)
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