Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset

Marriages and descendants Thomas Grey was contracted in 1483 to marry Anne St Leger (1476–1526), the daughter of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter and her second husband Sir Thomas St Leger. Remarkably, Anne St Leger had been declared the heiress to the Exeter estates, but the marriage did not take place.

The young Thomas Grey's first marriage was to Eleanor St John, a daughter of Oliver St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517–1554). Succeeded his father as Marquess of Dorset, married Lady Frances Brandon, a granddaughter of King Henry VII, and in 1551 (on the death of his brother-in-law Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk) became Duke of Suffolk, by way of a new creation. When this rebellion failed, all three were arrested, and Suffolk and his brother Thomas were executed, His grave was opened in the early seventeenth century and measurement of his skeleton suggested a height of .