Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon
Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon, GCVO, FRS (29 January 1852 – 23 September 1923), styled Viscount Goderich between 1859 and 1871 and Earl de Grey between 1871 and 1909, was a British courtier and Liberal politician.[2] Styled Earl de Grey after his father was elevated to a marquessate later in 1871, he entered Parliament for Ripon in 1874,[3] a seat he held until 1880.[9] Lord Ripon was a fast, accurate game shooter, who was noted to down 28 pheasants in sixty seconds at a shooting party guest on the Sandringham House estate.Edith Walker, the grandmother of the author Barbara Taylor Bradford, worked as a servant for the Marquess and lived in properties owned by him.Lord Ripon survived her by nearly six years and died on 22 September 1923, aged 71, having collapsed on Dallowgill Moor near Studley Royal Park,[4] after shooting 52 birds that morning.