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| George Grey | |||
Only son of Lieutenant-colonel Grey of the 30th Foot regiment, who commanded a division of the storming party at the fall of Badajoz and was mortally wounded in the third assault there eight days before his son was born | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 12 April 1812 | Born (Lisbon) | ||
| 1829 | Commission in the 83rd Foot | ||
| 1833 | Lieutenant | ||
| December 1837 | Landed near Hanover Bay, on the north-western coast of Western Australia on a Royal Geographical Society sponsored expedition | ||
| 1839 | Captain | ||
| 1839 | Sold commission and left army | ||
| 1839 | Married Eliza Lucy (1822-1898), daughter of Captain Sir Richard Spencer R.N. K.C.H. (1779-1839) | ||
| 1839 | Sailed from Perth to explore the west near Shark's Bay | ||
| 15 May 1841 | 25 October 1845 | Governor of South Australia | |
| 18 November 1845 | 31 December 1853 | Governor of New Zealand | |
| 27 April 1848 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath), civil | ||
| 5 December 1854 | 15 August 1861 | Governor of Southern Africa | |
| 4 December 1861 | 5 February 1868 | Governor of New Zealand | |
| 1868 | Returned to England | ||
| 1871 | Returned to New Zealand | ||
| 24 March 1875 | 31 October 1875 | Superintendent of the province of Auckland and member of the House of Representatives for Auckland City | |
| 13 October 1877 | 8 October 1879 | Prime Minister of New Zealand | |
| 1894 | Returned to England | ||
| 20 September 1898 | Died (London) | ||
| According to the DNB: 'His opinions were a curious compound of democratic idealism akin to Jefferson's, and a species of pacific imperialism'. | |||
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