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Grenville was born on 14 October 1712 at Westminster in London. He was educated at Eton between 1725 and 1728, going on to Christ church, Oxford in 1730. He was called to the Bar in 1735. In 1741 he was elected as MP for Buckingham, a pocket borough of his uncle Richard, Viscount Cobham. There were only thirteen electors.
In 1763, King George II appointed Grenville prime minister. In addition to his domestic initiatives, Grenville was a leading voice behind efforts to tax the American colonies, specifically through the Stamp Act (1765). Relations between Grenville and the king soured, and George II dismissed Grenville from the cabinet in 1765.
George Grenville: A Political Life. By Philip Lawson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. vi+309. £19.50. - Lord Grenville 1759–1834. By Peter Jupp. Oxford ...
However, George got his wish that Grenville was never to return to office. In 1749 Grenville married Elizabeth Wyndham and they had eight children, seven of whom reached adulthood. One of his children, William, would be Prime Minister over 1806-07. Elizabeth died in 1769. Grenville died in 1770.
‘Grenville has thrown away the game he had two years ago’, wrote the King to Bute, 14 Mar. 1763, when discussing who should succeed him at the Treasury.18 But Fox, having declined it, on 17 Mar. ‘very reluctantly’ recommended Grenville; Shelburne, however, was to replace Egremont as secretary of state.19 Although the King himself was averse to Shelburne, his appointment was pressed on ...
However, Grenville did not have to deal with the colonial problems that resulted in his policies because he was invited to resign by George III in July 1765. In the spring of 1765, George III had his first bout of mental illness which resulted in him becoming absent-minded and incoherent; he was unable to fulfil his duties as monarch.
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