Anthony Grey was Earl of Kent

Earl of Kent

The peerage title Earl of Kent has been created eight times in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.See also Kingdom of Kent, Duke of Kent.-Earls of Kent, first creation :*Godwin, Earl of Wessex...

 from 1639 to his death.

He was a son on George Grey and Margery Salvaine. His paternal grandfather Anthony Grey was a son of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent

George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent

George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent was the son of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and Lady Katherine Percy. He was the Second Earl of Kent from 1490 to 1505....

 and his second wife Catherine Herbert.

Anthony married Magdalene Purefoy, daughter of William Purefoy and Katherine Wigston. Burke's Landed Gentry

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 mentions his wife having a sister named Dorothy Purefoy who married Roger Dudley

Roger Dudley

Roger Dudley was an English soldier.Dudley was born in London, England, but some say that he was baptised in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire. However Dudley's parentage has never been satisfactorily established...

 and was mother to Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley

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, Governor of Massachusetts

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. However other sources identify Susanna Thorne as the mother of Thomas.

Anthony and Magdalene had eleven children:

• Grace Grey (born 1593). Married James Ward.
• Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent
  Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent
  Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent , known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in 1643....
  
   (24 November 1594 - 1651).
• Magdalene Grey (14 November 1596 - September, 1668). Married John Brown.
• Christian Grey (Born 1598). Married Theophilus Burdett of Burton Overy, Leicester, England.
• Faithmyjoy Grey (1599 - 1602).
• Patience Grey (Born 1603). Married a man of the Wood family.
• John Grey (April - September 1605).
• Job Grey (Born 1606).
• Theophilus Grey (1608 - 30 March 1679).
• Nathaniel Grey (Born 1615).

In 1639, Anthony succeeded his childless second cousin, once removed Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent

Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent

Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent was Earl of Kent from 1623 to his death.He was born the only son of Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent and his wife Susan Cotton and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge....

 as Earl of Kent

Earl of Kent

The peerage title Earl of Kent has been created eight times in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.See also Kingdom of Kent, Duke of Kent.-Earls of Kent, first creation :*Godwin, Earl of Wessex...

. Henry was a great-grandson of Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent

Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent

Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent was Earl of Kent from 1524 to his death.He was a son of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent and his second wife Catherine Herbert...

, another son of the 2nd Earl.

Source

CP, "Kent"