Groby owned by the Grey family whose estate included Bradgate Park. Sir John Grey of Groby married Elizabeth Woodville. After his death, in battle, she married Edward IV of England. Bradgate Park was the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, who became Queen of England for nine days in 1553. The Grey family held the barony until it was forfeited in 1554. Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby became MP for Leicester in 1641 and fought on the side of Parliament in the English Civil War. In 1649 Grey was the only aristocrat of the 59 signatories of the death warrant
Lewis Linford sexual assault of a 20-year-old female boxer in a nightclub in Kingston upon Hull. The incident was alleged to have occurred in Hull's Pozition night club in 2007, two years before Smales appeared on "Emmerdale". Smales was acquitted of the charge and later appeared in the media arguing for the anonymity of accused males in rape trials. Lewis Linford Lewis Smales (stage name Linford) (born 1987) is a British actor. A native of Swanland, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Smales is probably best known for playing the character of gamekeeper Lee Naylor in the British television soap "Emmerdale". In 2010