Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford

Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford (26 February 1812 – 19 June 1890) was an English peer.
Harry Grey was born in England, the son of Revd. Harry Grey (1783-1860) and Frances Elizabeth Ellis. In 1836 he took Holy Orders in the Church of England.
An Oxford educated man, well-schooled in the Classics, including Latin, Greek, Theology and Philosophy, he was married in Devon in 1844 to the "lower class" Susan Gaydon, but later developed a serious drink and gambling problem, and was sent to the Cape Colony as a remittance man, leaving his wife behind, and receiving a monthly stipend. (It seems that there was an arrangement between them, and that she was not displeased with this, having formed another attachment with a more suitable partner.)
Once in the Cape Colony he stayed in the historical Cape Town suburb of Wynberg, and then worked as a miner in Namaqualand. Later he was, by all accounts,a farm labourer just outside the hamlet of Wellington. His first wife died...