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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.
Grenville, George ( 1712–1770 ), prime minister, was born at Wotton, Buckinghamshire, on 14 October 1712, the second of the six sons of Richard Grenville (1678–1727), landowner and whig MP, and his wife, Hester (bap. 1684, d. 1752), the second daughter of Sir Richard Temple, third baronet, of Stowe, Buckinghamshire.
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 ...
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.
1 de sept. de 2018 · On 2 Feb. 1775, when Fox ‘threw some reflections’ on Grenville’s father as author of the Stamp Act, Grenville, according to Walpole, defended his father both with spirit and decency, and gained great favour with the House by his pleasing manner. Yet he would not, he said, blame those who had repealed the Stamp Act, and owned the charter ...
1 de sept. de 2020 · Citing these facts, Grenville convinced Parliament that the colonies should—for the first time in their history—contribute to the costs of supporting and defending them. Parliament responded by passing a series of colonial tax laws now known as the Revenue Acts, made up of the Sugar Act 1764, the Currency Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1773.
SLAUGHTER / The Empire Strikes Back 205. The road Bullion has chosen for this journey is marked by three inter- pretive signposts, each critical in his view to a new understanding of the Stamp Act. These include the character of George Grenville, First Secretary of the Treasury and sponsor of the Stamp Act legislation, the initial plan to tax ...
