Edward Grey
See also: Grey
Edward Grey (April 25th 1862 - September 7th 1933), 3rd baronnet then 1st Viscount Grey de Fallodon (Northumberland), was a politician and British ornithologist.
Edward Grey occupied the station of Foreign Secretary (Foreign Minister of the the United Kingdom) of 1905 to 1916. In spite of its lack of knowledge in diplomacy and foreign languages, Edward Grey was Foreign Secretary rather qualified: it negotiated the treaty of Agreement with Russia in 1907, the Pacific regulation of the crisis of Agadir, and directed negotiations for the payment of the wars of Balkans.
The day before the First World War, he entrusted to a friend: “the lamps die out in all Europe… We will not re-examine them to ignite our alive one.”
November 26th 1914 -->
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