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Elizabeth Grenville (née Wyndham; 1719 – 5 December 1769) was an English artist and writer. She was the wife of George Grenville, prime minister from 1763 to 1765; the daughter of Sir William Wyndham, a prominent Tory politician; and the mother of William Grenville, prime minister from 1806 to 1807.
24 de mar. de 2023 · Genealogy for Elizabeth Grenville (Gorges) (1421 - 1470) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) 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.
After petitioning Elizabeth I in 1565 to leave England for service abroad to a foreign prince, Grenville and his West Country cousins paid for and recruited a troop of West Countrymen to accompany them.
Sir Richard Grenville was a colourful and daring English naval commander who fought heroically, against overwhelming odds, in a celebrated encounter with a Spanish fleet off Flores Island in the Azores. He fought with the imperial army against the Turks in Hungary (1566–68).
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17 de jun. de 2020 · Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591 CE) was an Elizabethan adventurer, mariner, and privateer whose life story is as entertaining as any fictional sailor. His early career saw him become a Member of Parliament, a soldier in Hungary, and a plantation owner in Ireland.
In Grenville’s bold, feminist portrayal, Elizabeth emerges from the shadows of her domineering husband, John Macarthur, as a force to be reckoned with: a woman of distinctly modern sensibilities whose intelligence, cunning, pragmatism and resourcefulness enable her to make the most of her less-than-ideal circumstances.
