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Thomas Grenville PC (31 December 1755 – 17 December 1846) was a British politician and bibliophile.
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]
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)
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.
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 ...
Background and education. 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. Career.
Thomas Gren- ville was in his fifty-first year and was an experienced politician, having been first elected to Parliament in 1780. He had represented his govern- ment abroad on several diplomatic missions, but otherwise he had stuck close to his desk and never gone to sea, and so he was in a strange element.
