Earl Grey

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British politician Prime Minister of the United Kingdom human

Earl Grey was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister and is best known for overseeing the passage of the Reform Act 1832 and for having the famous tea blend named after him.

Aliases (1)

Earl Grey tea ×1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British politician → Prime Minister of the United Kingdom → human →
aristocraticFamily	Grey family →
associatedWith	19th-century British politics → British Empire → Whig government of the 1830s →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain → United Kingdom →
familyName	Grey →
fieldOfWork	politics → statesmanship →
gender	male →
givenName	Charles →
hasInfluenceOn	British electoral reform → constitutional development of the United Kingdom → expansion of the franchise in the United Kingdom →
hasParticularSignificanceIn	history of the United Kingdom →
honorificPrefix	The Right Honourable →
influenced	development of modern British parliamentary democracy →
knownFor	Catholic Emancipation → Reform Act 1832 → abolition of slavery in the British Empire → tea blend Earl Grey →
languageSpoken	English →
legislativeAchievement	Reform Act 1832 → Reform of the British electoral system → Slavery Abolition Act 1833 →
memberOf	House of Commons of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED → House of Lords →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Whig Party →
monarchDuringTerm	William IV →
namesakeOf	Earl Grey tea →
nobleRank	Earl →
nobleTitle	2nd Earl Grey →
officeContested	Member of Parliament →
politicalIdeology	liberalism → parliamentary reform →
positionHeld	First Lord of the Treasury → Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom → Leader of the House of Lords → Prime Minister of the United Kingdom → Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs →
residence	United Kingdom →
titleHeld	Viscount Howick →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ("Earl Grey tea") →	knownFor
Whig Party →	notableMember
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne →	precededByAsPrimeMinister