Unfortunately Grey Street wasn’t at its best when I visited. It was shrouded with scaffolding!

The inscription on the base of Grey’s monument reads as follows:

THIS COLUMN WAS ERECTED IN 1838

TO COMMEMORATE

THE SERVICES RENDERED TO HIS COUNTRY BY

CHARLES EARL GREY K.G.

WHO, DURING AN ACTIVE POLITICAL CAREER OF

NEARLY HALF A CENTURY

WAS THE CONSTANT ADVOCATE OF PEACE

AND THE FEARLESS AND CONSISTENT CHAMPION OF

CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

HE FIRST DIRECTED HIS EFFORTS TO THE AMENDMENT

OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN 1792,

AND WAS THE MINISTER

BY WHOSE ADVICE, AND UNDER WHOSE GUIDANCE,

THE GREAT MEASURE OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

WAS AFTER AN ARDUOUS AND PROTRACTED STRUGGLE

SAFELY AND TRIUMPHANTLY ACHIEVED

IN THE YEAR 1832.