Charles Greville (diarist)
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Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played from 1819 to 1827. His father, Charles Greville, was a second cousin of the 1st Earl of Warwick. His mother,
Charles Greville by J.E. Mayall and Joseph Brown
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst was a British Tory politician. He was an MP for thirty years before ennoblement. A personal friend of William Pitt the Younger, he became a broker of deals across cab
Charles Greville (diarist)
…Honour to George III, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; but he left the university early, having been appointed private secretary to Earl Bathurst before he was twenty. The interest of the Duke of Portland had secured for him the secretaryship of the island of Jamaica, which was a sinecure office…
Portrait by William Salter
His wife Georgina Lennox, by Thomas Gainsborough