Editing Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (section)

==Final years==
On leaving office in 1911 Earl Grey and his family returned to the United Kingdom, where he became president of the Royal Colonial Institute (now the [[Royal Commonwealth Society]]).

He did not retire from public affairs. He lobbied and organized toward several goals:

1. to help those who are endeavoring to fight the slums. 

2. to help the worker forward in the path of his natural evolution from the status of worker to that of partner.

3. proportional representation – by "the removal of the disparity between Parliamentary constituencies with 40,000 electors, on the one hand, and on the other, other constituencies with less than as many hundreds." (through creation of equal-sized single-member districts. Earl Grey was also a proponent of PR in the sense of elected representation reflecting how votes are cast. In 1916, he was honorary president of the Proportional Representation Society of Canada and president of the British PR Society.<ref>Grain Grower Guide, Aug. 23, 1916</ref>

4. Public House Trust [temperance refreshment houses], which is "a necessary adjunct to the first two items of his programme."<ref>Edmonton Bulletin, April 6, 1912; Grain Grower Guide, Sept. 29, 1915</ref>

On 28 March 1916, he was appointed by King George V as Chancellor of the [[Order of St Michael and St George|Order of St. Michael and St. George]].<ref name=LG29529>{{London Gazette| issue=29529 |date=28 March 1916 |page=3458}}</ref> 

Grey died in August 1917 at his family residence. (On his deathbed, he penned a "stirring" letter to the editor of the London Times on the need to retain the adoption of proportional representation in the Electoral Reform Bill, being debated by British Parliament at the time.)<ref>Proportional Representation Review, October 1917, p. 9-10</ref>