Thomas Grenville
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Thomas Grenville was a British politician and bibliophile.
Thomas Grenville (picture)
Thomas Grenville by Giovanni Battista Comolli, British Library, London
Dedication to Grenville in volume I of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts, by Thomas Young (1807)
Thomas Grenville
George Grenville
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George Grenville was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. Grenville was born into an influential political family and 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.
Portrait by William Hoare, 1764
Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, the political base of the Cobham faction; in 1749, ownership of the estate passed to Grenville's brother Richard.
Grenville served under British Prime Minister Lord Bute between 1762 and 1763 and later succeeded him.
Cartoon depicting the repeal of the Stamp Act as a funeral, with Grenville carrying a child's coffin marked "Miss America Stamp born 1765, died 1766" (The Skulls refer to the Scottish Rebellions of 1715 and 1745)