George de Grey, 8th Baron Walsingham

Lieutenant Colonel George de Grey, 8th Baron Walsingham (9 May 1884 – 29 November 1965) was a British soldier and peer.

Early life

Walsingham was born on 9 May 1884 at Westminster, London. He was the son of John Augustus de Grey, 7th Baron Walsingham and the former Elizabeth Henrietta Grant. Among his siblings were Hon. Elizabeth Helen de Grey (wife of Maj. Henry Wynter Blathwayt), Hon. Margaret Henrietta de Grey (wife of Bethel Godefroy Bouwens and Cyril Fabian Ratcliff Johnston), Hon. Alice Mary de Grey (wife of Philip Wade), and Hon. Richard Patrick de Grey (husband of Cynthia Estelle Myring and Dorothy Knight).

He was educated at Eton College before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. who married Col. William d'Arcy Garnier, a son of Brigadier Alan Parry Garnier, in 1946. Hon. Katharine Odeyne de Grey (b. 1928), who married George Herbert, 7th Earl of Powis, son of Rt. Rev. Percy Mark Herbert, in 1949.

He died on 29 November 1965 at age 81.