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Richard Grenville was the eldest son and heir of Sir Roger Grenville (d. 1545), who was captain of Mary Rose when she sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545, by his wife Thomasine Cole, daughter of Thomas Cole of Slade. [1]
Sir Richard Grenville (26 June 1600 – 21 October 1659) was a professional soldier from Cornwall, who served in the Thirty Years War, and 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He was the younger brother of Sir Bevil Grenville , who died at Lansdowne in 1643, and grandson of Admiral Sir Richard , killed at Flores in 1591.
Sir Richard Grenville (1678 – 17 February 1727) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1727. Part of the Grenville family that welded great influence during the eighteenth century his descendants have included three Prime Ministers .
Arms of Grenville: Gules, three clarions or Early 16th c. bench end in Sutcombe Church in Devon, showing the arms of Grenville Richard Grenville (died 1550) lord of the manor of Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall and of Bideford in Devon, was an English soldier, politician, and administrator who served as a Member of Parliament for Cornwall in 1529, [1] and served as Sheriff of Cornwall and ...
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC (26 September 1711 – 12 September 1779) was a British politician and peer who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1757 to 1761. He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt , serving with him in the Pitt–Newcastle ministry during Britain's participation in the Seven ...
Richard de Grenville (died after 1142), one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan; Richard Grenville (died 1550), MP for Cornwall in 1529; Richard Grenville (died 1577 or 1578), MP for Newport (Cornwall) and Dunheved; Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet (1600–1658), Royalist leader in the English Civil War
General Richard Grenville (6 July 1742 – 22 April 1823) was a senior officer in the British Army and a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780.
In 1799, Richard Temple-Nugent-Grenville changed the already triple-barrelled family name to Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville by royal licence to reflect his wife's family. [1] The second Duke was a paternal grandson of the 1st Marquess of Buckingham and a great-grandson of Prime Minister George Grenville.