Thomas de Grey (1680–1765)

Thomas de Grey (1680 – 1765) of Merton, Norfolk, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1727.

[1] De Grey was returned as Whig Member of Parliament for Thetford at the 1708 British general election.

[1] At the 1715 British general election, de Grey was backed by Lord Townshend as a Whig candidate for Norfolk and he won the contest.

He voted against the septennial bill of 1716 and joined the opposition (led by Townshend and Robert Walpole) against Lord Cadogan in June 1717.

He did not want to stand again at the 1722 British general election, writing to Townshend asking: to be discharged of a trust, which after seven years’ experience I am every day more convinced that I am of all persons the most unfit for.