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The Grenville family are an aristocratic English family whose members included Prime Ministers George Grenville and William Grenville. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Born into an influential political family, Grenville first entered Parliament in 1741 as an MP for Buckingham. He emerged as one of Cobham's Cubs, a group of young members of Parliament associated with Lord Cobham. In 1754, Grenville became Treasurer of the Navy, a position he held twice until 1761.
His father (who had pre-deceased his own father Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1495–1550), the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cornwall in 1529 [2]) died when he was an infant, aged 3, and his mother remarried to Thomas Arundell of Clifton Arundell House, where Grenville spent much of his childhood.
Articles relating to William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1759-1834, term 1806-1807) and his term in office.
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Grenville family interest, led by Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, which dominated local politics in Buckinghamshire, was prominent in the mid-18th century politics as close allies of Temple's brother-in-law, William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl Chatham. They had earlier been members of the group of Cobham's Cubs.
The now Lord Temple also took the additional family names Nugent and Temple by Royal Warrant issued on 4 December [4] making the compound family name Nugent-Temple-Grenville. In 1782, Temple was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and in July 1782, he became a member of the Privy Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry ...
Thomas Grenville by Giovanni Battista Comolli, British Library, London The arms of Thomas Grenville (Vert on a cross argent five torteaux, a crescent for difference) are the arms of the Grenville family, with a crescent as a mark of cadency, to signify him as the second son.