Prime Minister George Grenville

1712 - 1770  (58 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	George Grenville
  Prefix	Prime Minister
  Birth	14 Oct 1712	Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	1763
  British Prime Minister
  Death	13 Nov 1770	Bolton St., Piccadilly, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  + 1. Henry Grenville   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Margaret Eleanor Banks   2. Earl Richard Grenville   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Prime Minister George Grenville,   b. 14 Oct 1712, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England d. 13 Nov 1770, Bolton St., Piccadilly, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 58 years) ▻ Elizabeth Wyndham,  m. 16 Jun 1749 + 4. Hester Grenville   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Earl Prime Minister William Pitt, "the elder",  m. 1754
  Person ID	I132700	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also George Grenville at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2008

  
  

  Father	Richard Grenville,   b. 23 Mar 1678, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England d. 1726 (Age 47 years)
  Mother	Countess Hester Temple,   b. 1690   d. 6 Oct 1752 (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	1710
  Family ID	F53844	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Wyndham,   b. 14 Jun 1726, Orchards, Somerset, England d. 5 Dec 1769, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	16 Jun 1749
  after postponing the wedding in the hope of receiving a large legacy. Somerset disapproved of the match and left Elizabeth a very small allowance in his will. The couple had four sons and five daughters: one of their sons became PM in his own right.
  Children	1. Mary Hester Grenville,   b. 19 Jan 1750   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Richard Percy Grenville,   b. 12 Mar 1752   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Marquess George Nugent-Temple-Grenville,   b. 17 Jun 1753, London, Middlesex, England d. 11 Feb 1813, Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 59 years) + 4. Charlotte Grenville,   b. 14 Dec 1754   d. 29 Sep 1832 (Age 77 years)   5. Thomas Grenville,   b. 31 Dec 1755   d. Yes, date unknown + 6. Elizabeth Grenville,   b. 24 Oct 1756   d. 2 Dec 1842 (Age 86 years)   7. Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville,   b. 25 Oct 1759, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England d. 12 Jun 1834, Dropmore, Sp (Age 74 years) + 8. Hester Grenville,   b. 23 Nov 1760   d. 13 Nov 1847 (Age 86 years) + 9. Catherine Grenville,   b. 23 Nov 1762   d. 6 Nov 1796, Paddington, London, Middlesex, England (Age 33 years)   10. James Grenville,   b. Abt 1764   d. Yes, date unknown   11. Henry Grenville,   b. Abt 1766   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F53845	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2008

  
  

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  Prime Minister 1763-65. He was educated at Eton between 1725 and 1728, going on to Christ church, Oxford in 1730. He was called to the Bar in 1735. In 1741 he was elected as MP for Buckingham, a pocket borough of his uncle Richard, Viscount Cobham. There were only thirteen electors. In his early years in parliament, Grenville was a member of his uncle's faction whose members were known as "Cobham's Cubs" and included Pitt (the Elder). This group opposed Walpole's government which fell in 1742. In 1744 Grenville entered Pelham's government but was dismissed by the Newcastle administration in 1755, only to be brought back into government in 1756 as Treasurer to the Navy. During Newcastle's ministry (1754-62), Grenville became increasingly friendly with the Earl of Bute and the Leicester House Set; he also gained a reputation in the House of Commons as an expert on procedural matters. When George III succeeded to the throne in 1760, Grenville joined Bute in urging an end to the Seven Years' War, whereas the government (particularly Newcastle and Pitt) were in favour of continuing the conflict. In 1761, Grenville was appointed as Leader of the House of Commons. In May 1762, the Duke of Newcastle resigned and Bute formed a ministry with Grenville being made Secretary of State for the Northern Department. His brother-in-law, Lord Egremont was Secretary of State for the Southern Department. However, Bute opened the peace preliminaries with France without consulting his Cabinet and Grenville opposed him. Consequently, Bute demoted him to First Lord of the Admiralty, a post that Grenville was forced to accept because he needed the money - since the break with his brother (Lord Temple) the previous year, Grenville had no private income. After the signing of the Peace of Paris, Bute introduced the Cider Tax in an attempt to pay off the national debt. Grenville spoke in favour of the duty, earning himself the ridicule of the Commons. On 16 April 1763, much to his surprise, Bute asked Grenville to take over as PM. Grenville accepted, even though Bute had appointed most of the Cabinet. A week later, John Wilkes published Number 45 of the North Briton which contained a vicious attack on the King's Speech concerning the Peace of Paris. Grenville then had to deal with an issue that had originated in Bute's ministry. In a further attempt to pay off the national debt, Grenville introduced a spate of legislation for the American colonies: 1764 - Sugar Act 1764 - Currency Act 1765 - Stamp Act Also in 1765, Grenville introduced the Regency Bill because of the king's illness. The king specified that the Regent should be either the Queen or another member of the Royal Family but his Ministers decided to remove the name of his wife because of her close friendship with Bute. George III took this as an insult and ordered that the queen's name should be reinserted. Grenville also had to deal with the silk-weavers' riots, caused by the government's failure to restrict the import of foreign silk. The king blamed Grenville for the riots. In July 1765, Grenville was persuaded to resign, to make way for a ministry headed by the Duke of Cumberland with the Marquis of Rockingham as First Lord of the Treasury. Grenville went into opposition and did not hold office again. He opposed any measures of conciliation for the American colonies, voting against the repeal of the Stamp Act. Grenville's opposition to most government measures in the period 1765-70 resulted in him losing more and more credibility as a politician. In the summer of 1770, Grenville became ill. He had suffered from a recurring respiratory illness throughout his life that had caused him to leave London for months at a time. On the day of the opening of parliament, Grenville died in London of a blood disorder.