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Grey’s Monument, Newcastle

Grey’s Monument commemorates Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, the Prime Minister who passed the Great Reform Act. It was this Act that saw the start of the end of the rotten boroughs. The plaque on the base notes that Earl Grey “…WAS THE CONSTANT ADVOCATE OF PEACE AND THE FEARLESS AND CONSISTENT CHAMPION OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.”

Grey's Monument