From Astley’s Circus to Dunham Massey
This is a portrait of Catherine Grey (née Cox) in bedding plants. In the early 1850s she was a trick rider with Astley’s Circus in London (the first modern circus) but she married George Grey, the Seventh Earl of Stamford. They were married for three decades, and she survived him for another two, dying in 1905. Today she is commemorated in the gardens at Dunham Massey, a house that they lived in briefly after they married. Our guide to the…