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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 ...
Nommé 1er Baron de Grenville, le 25 novembre 1790 (il devient ensuite le Président de la Chambre des Lords) Secrétaire général de l'Irlande de 1782 à 1783. Contrôleur des Finances et Contrôleur adjoint des finances de 1783 à 1789. Vice-Président du Conseil du Commerce de 1786 à 1789. Porte-parole à la Chambre des Communes 1789.
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
Label. Description. Also known as. English. William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville. British Prime Minister, politician (1759-1834) William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville. William Grenville. William Wyndham Grenville.
