Earl Grey

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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.

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Earl Grey canonical 10
Earl Grey tea 3
Earls Grey 1

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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 Gray
surface form: 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 Act 1829
surface form: 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
House of Lords
memberOfPoliticalParty Whig Party
monarchDuringTerm William IV
namesakeOf Earl Grey tea
nobleRank Earl
nobleTitle Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
surface form: 2nd Earl Grey
officeContested Member of Parliament
politicalIdeology liberalism
parliamentary reform
positionHeld First Lord of the Treasury
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
surface form: Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Leader of the House of Lords
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
residence United Kingdom
titleHeld Viscount Howick

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Whig Party notableMember Earl Grey
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey knownFor Earl Grey
this entity surface form: Earl Grey tea
Jean-Luc Picard favoriteDrink Earl Grey
this entity surface form: Earl Grey tea
Grey family hasTitle Earl Grey
Howick Hall, Northumberland, England isAncestralHomeOf Earl Grey
subject surface form: Howick Hall
this entity surface form: Earls Grey
Howick Hall, Northumberland, England hasAssociatedProduct Earl Grey
subject surface form: Howick Hall
this entity surface form: Earl Grey tea
Amédée E. Forget appointedBy Earl Grey
Viscount Howick nobleTitle Earl Grey
subject surface form: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Viscount Howick associatedTitle Earl Grey
subject surface form: Grey family