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Thomas Grenville PC (31 December 1755 – 17 December 1846) was a British politician and bibliophile.
9 de mai. de 2023 · Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and 1486.[1] He was lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall. He was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Grenville by his second wife Elizabeth Gorges, daughter of Theobald Gorges and sister of Sir Theobald Gorges. [2]
- Stow
- 1449
- "Sir Thomas Grenville", "Sheriff of Cornwall"
- Stow, Cornwall, England (United Kingdom)
Sir Thomas Grenville II, K.B., (c. 1453 – c. 1513), lord of the manors of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and 1486. During the Wars of the Roses , he was a Lancastrian supporter who had taken part in the conspiracy against Richard III, organised by the Duke of Buckingham . [4]
13 de fev. de 2018 · Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) is best known in the British Library as the owner of a library of some 20,000 volumes, which he bequeathed to the BM thanks to the negotiations (some say machinations) of Anthony Panizzi.
Sir Thomas Grenville I (born by 21 January 1432 - died c. 1483) (son), the first member of the family to modernise his surname by omitting the particule "de". He served as Sheriff of Gloucester in 1480 and Sheriff of Cornwall in 1483. [29]
1755-1846. Biography. Statesman and book-collector, second son of George Grenville (1712-1770). His father and brother were both Prime Ministers. Bibliography. DNBBarry Taylor, ‘Thomas Grenville and his books’, in 'Libraries within the Library: the origins of the British Library’s printed collections', edited by Giles Mandelbrote and ...
Bibliophile and politician. He was commissioned briefly in the Coldstream Guards, and served as a member of parliament from 1780 to 1810. He started collecting books from an early age, and by his death he owned 20,240 volumes containing 16,000 titles.
