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29/12/2017 · George Grenville came from a family of politicians. He became First Lord of the Treasury during a period of considerable political turbulence in the 1760s. His imposition of new duties on the ...

George Grenville, English politician whose policy of taxing the American colonies, initiated by his Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765, started the train of events leading to the American Revolution. He entered Parliament in 1741, one of the “cousinhood” of men interrelated by blood or

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 ...

11/02/2015 · George Grenville (Whig 1763-1765) George Grenville came from a political family and ultimately emerged as an important political figure in his own right. He was born in October 1712 at Wotton, Buckinghamshire. His father, Richard, sat as an MP for Wendover and Buckingham but Grenville’s career was helped more by his mother’s brother ...