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He had suffered from a recurring respiratory illness throughout his life that had caused him to leave London for months at a time. On 13 November 1770, the day of the opening of parliament, Grenville died in London of a blood disorder. Recommended Reading. Lawson, P. George Grenville: A Political Life. Oxford 1984. Wiggin, L. M.
8 de jun. de 2018 · GRENVILLE, GEORGE. (1712–1770). British politician and prime minister. Grenville was born at Wotton, Buckinghamshire, on 14 October 1712. His contemporaries often spelled his surname as "Greenville," and this may have been the accepted pronunciation. He was educated at Eton from 1725 and from 1729 at the Inner Temple, one of the major London ...
P. Lawson, George Grenville: a political life (1984) A. S. Johnson, A prologue to revolution : the political career of George Grenville, 1712–1770 (Lanham, MD, 1997) P. D. G. Thomas, British politics and the Stamp Act crisis : the first phase of the American revolution, 1763–1767 (1975)
Grenville was in and out of office during the shifting administrations that marked the end of George II's long reign and the beginning of George III's. What also shifted were Grenville's political alliances as he drifted away from Pitt and closer to those allied with the household of the Prince of Wales in the 1750s, a process of changing allegiances that continued after the prince's accession ...
George Grenville, a Political Life. Philip Lawson. Clarendon Press, 1984 - Great Britain - 309 pages. From inside the book . Contents. From Wotton to Westminster ...
George Grenville was a reluctant politician, but once he had committed himself to a political career, he gave it his all, and mastered the details of both Parliament and administration more comprehensively than any of his contemporaries.
George Grenville. George Grenville (1712-1770) was a Whig politician, a member of the British parliament and prime minister of Britain between April 1763 and July 1765. He is best known as prime minister during the passing of the Stamp Act. Born into a wealthy and powerful family, Grenville was educated at Eton and Oxford, graduating with a law ...
