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 Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, known as George Grenville before 1779 and as the Earl Temple between 1779 and 1784, was a British statesman.
Thomas Grenville
…and bibliophile. Grenville was the second son of Prime Minister George Grenville and Elizabeth Wyndham, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet. George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, was his elder brother and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, his younger brother. He was educated at Eton. In 1778, he was commissioned ensign…
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough
Statue sculpted by Edward Smyth in 1783, showing Buckingham in the robes of a Knight of the Order of St Patrick