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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."
William Wyndham Grenville, 1º Barone Grenville (Wotton Underwood, 25 ottobre 1759 – Burnham, 12 gennaio 1834), è stato un politico britannico. Ha fatto parte del partito Whig . Fu Primo ministro del Regno Unito dall'11 febbraio 1806 al 31 marzo 1807 .
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, 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 abolition of the slave trade in 1807. However, his government failed to either make peace with France or ...
22 de nov. de 2009 · William Wyndham Grenville, later the first Baron Grenville and more commonly known to historians as Lord Grenville, was born on 25 October 1759. Like many Whigs of his generation, he mixed support for repressive domestic measures with modest support for administrative and economic reform. He strongly believed in a limited number of what later ...
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William Cavendish-Bentinck. William Wyndham Grenville ( Wotton House, 25 oktober, 1759 – Burnham, Buckinghamshire, 12 januari, 1834 ), 1e baron van Grenville, was een Brits Whig -politicus en eerste minister van het Verenigd Koninkrijk van 1806 tot 1807.
William Wyndham Grenville, the fifth of seven children and the youngest son of George Grenville (1712-1770), the politician who was later to become Prime Minister (1763-65) and Elizabeth Wyndham (1720–1769), was born on 24th October 1759. According to his biographer, Peter Jupp: "Grenville was born into a family that had risen from ...
