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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.
14 de oct. de 2015 · William Wyndham Grenville was born on 24 October 1759 in Buckinghamshire, the youngest son of an earlier Prime Minister, George Grenville, and cousin of a future one, William Pitt. He studied at Eton, Christ Church Oxford and Lincoln’s Inn, but he abandoned plans for a legal career when he was elected MP for Buckingham in 1782 and then ...
Grenville, William Wyndham (1759–1834), Baron Grenville , politician, was born 24 October 1759 at Wotton House, Buckinghamshire, England, youngest son among three surviving sons and four daughters of George Grenville, later British prime minister, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Wyndham.
29 de dic. de 2020 · GRENVILLE, WILLIAM WYNDHAM, Baron Grenville (1759–1834), the youngest son of George Grenville [q. v.], by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, bart., was born on 25 Oct. 1759. He was educated at Eton, and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated 14 Dec. 1776, and, gaining the chancellor's prize for Latin verse in 1779, graduated B.A. in 1780.
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 ...
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
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 ...
