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Fact file. Born 25 October, 1759, died Dropmore Lodge (Buckinghamshire), 12 January, 1834. MP for Buckingham 1782-84. MP for Buckinghamshire 1784-90. Created 1st Baron of Grenville on 25 November 1790 (then becoming Leader of the House of Lords) Chief secretary for Ireland 1782-83. Paymaster and Joint Paymaster 1783-89.
William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville. Foreign Secretary April 1791 to February 1801. Lord Grenville spent almost a decade as Foreign Secretary during a turbulent period dominated by diplomacy ...
GRENVILLE, William Wyndham (1759-1834). Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 , ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964 Available from Boydell and Brewer
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London (1759–1834). British politician William Wyndham Grenville served as prime minister of Great Britain in 1806–07. His greatest achievement was to end the British overseas slave trade by a bill that became law the day he left office.
Prime Minister Grenville, William Pitt's first cousin, served as Speaker of the House of Commons (1789) and Foreign Secretary (1791-1801). The protégé and loyal follower of his cousin, Grenville was angered by Pitt's failure to oppose Addington and broke with him to join Fox and Grey in opposition. It was as head of the 'Ministry of All the Talents' coalition government, following Pitt's ...
William Grenville, who served as Prime Minister from 11 February 1806 to 25 March 1807, was born on 24 October 1759, the third son and sixth of nine children born to George Grenville and Elizabeth Wyndham. In 1792, he married Anne Pitt. She was the daughter of Thomas Pitt, first Baron Camelford. The Grenville and Pitt families were intertwined ...
William Wyndham Grenville ( 25 octobre 1759, Wotton House, Buckinghamshire – 12 janvier 1834, Burnham, Buckinghamshire), 1er baron Grenville, membre du Conseil privé, est un homme d'Étatmembre du parti whig britannique, et un Premier ministre ( 11 février 1806 - 31 mars 1807) du roi George III .
