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Hace 3 días · Sugar Act Explained — Section 4. April 5, 1764. Section 4 of the Sugar Act of 1764 extended and updated the 1733 Molasses Act. By extending the Molasses Act, Parliament gave merchants time to prepare for the new laws, regulations, and taxes of the Sugar Act. George Grenville, Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, was responsible for ...
Hace 4 días · George Grenville, Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, was responsible for the Sugar Act of 1764, starting the movement in the 13 Colonies against Taxation Without Representation.
Hace 3 días · That same year, Prime Minister George Grenville proposed direct taxes on the colonies to raise revenue, but he delayed action to see whether the colonies would propose some way to raise the revenue themselves.
Hace 4 días · George Grenville, born in 1712, was the second son of Richard Grenville, of Wotton Hall, Bucks. Though at first destined for a career at the Bar, he turned his attention to politics, and in 1741 entered parliament as member for Buckingham, a seat which he held until his death.
Hace 6 días · George Grenville was in office until 1765; the Marquis of Rockingham until 1766; Pitt, becoming Earl of Chatham, until illness compelled him to retire from the conduct of affairs in 1767, when he was succeeded by the Duke of Grafton.
Hace 4 días · Identified as belonging to George Grenville (1712-1770), prime minister between 1763-65, the ring will be offered at Noonans Mayfair on June 11 with an estimate of £6000-8000. Grenville is partly remembered for trying to reduce Britain’s growing debt by raising revenue in the American colonies with the introduction of the Stamp Act which ...
Hace 3 días · George Bubb, the politician and wit, who took the additional name Dodington in 1717, was created Lord Melcombe in 1761 and died without children in the following year. Under his uncle's will his property, including Dodington, passed to Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, grandson of Sir Richard Temple and greatnephew of John Dodington.
