George Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford

[2][3] A prominent patron of The Turf, he was Master of the Quorn Hunt between 1856 and 1863, and whilst he did not have many notable successes with his racehorses, his colt Diophantus won the Two Thousand Guineas in 1861.

[5] After inheriting his family's large estates at Enville in Staffordshire, Bradgate Park in Leicestershire and other Leicestershire estates (including the village of Groby), Dunham Massey in Cheshire, and Stalybridge in Lancashire, he commissioned the building of St Margaret's Church at Dunham Massey in 1851.

His other two titles passed to his third cousin once removed, The Revd Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford, who was living in Cape Colony.

[citation needed] He left his estates to his widow for life, who was then styled Dowager Countess of Stamford and Warrington, and on her death in 1905 they were divided.

Only the magnificent stable block survives, albeit in a ruinous and dilapidated condition, which had been built on a lavish scale (the bill is thought to have run to £30,000) for the 7th Earl of Stamford when he was made Master of the Quorn Hunt in 1856.