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5 de dez. de 2023 · William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC PCi FRS (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister, his most significant achievement was the ...
William Wyndham Grenville was born on the 25th of October 1759 in Wotton Underwood. The third son of George Grenville. He had two elder brothers Thomas and George - he was thus uncle to the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
William Wyndham Grenville, the first and last Baron Grenville, was talented, deeply learned, a useful party man, but aloof, respected rather than liked. His nickname was Bogy, perhaps meaning scary or bogeyman. William Wilberforce praised him fulsomely but said of him: "His natural temper is not that of warmth."
The GrEco project aims at promoting academic researches on Lord William Wyndham Grenville’s economic thought. Since, at the start of the project, most of his economic writings are unpublished, a first task consists in locating, dating, transcribing and publishing Lord Grenville’s economic works and correspondence.
William Wyndham Grenville, corect William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC, PC (Ire) (n. 25 octombrie 1759 , Buckinghamshire , Anglia , Regatul Unit – d. 12 ianuarie 1834 , Buckinghamshire , Anglia , Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei ) a fost un politician britanic , om de stat al partidului Whig statesman.
William Grenville was born on 24 October 1759, the third son and sixth of nine children born to George Grenville and Elizabeth Wyndham. In 1792, he married Anne Pitt. She was the daughter of Thomas Pitt, first Baron Camelford. The Grenville and Pitt families were intertwined, since Pitt the Elder (the Earl of Chatham) had married Hester ...
George Grenville, born October 14, 1712 in Westminster and died November 13, 1770 in London, was a British statesman who was Prime Minister Britain from 1763 to 1765. He was the father of Lord William Wyndham Grenville. Portrait of Charlotte Grenville and his son, sister and nephew of Lord William Wyndham Grenville, in 1799 click on the pictures
