George Grenville
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George Grenville was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, during the early reign of the young King George III. He served for only two years, and attempted to solve t
Portrait by William Hoare, 1764
Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, the political base of the Cobhamites; 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)
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 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 o
George Grenville
…revived by William Pitt the Younger who served as prime minister from 1783 and dominated British politics until his death in 1806. Grenville's own son, William Grenville, later served briefly as prime minister. Grenville is buried at Wotton Underwood in Buckinghamshire George Grenville's post mortem was carried up by…
Portrait of Lord Grenville by John Hoppner, c. 1800
Lord Grenville by Gainsborough Dupont, c. 1790
Lord Grenville as Chancellor of Oxford, by William Owen, c. 1809-25
A caricature of Saartjie Baartman, Lord Grenville, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan by William Heath