1. George Grote was an English political radical and classical historian.
15 Facts About George Grote
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George Grote is best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece.
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George Grote was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent.
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George Grote's brothers were the moral philosopher John Grote and the colonial administrator Arthur Grote.
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George Grote spent all his spare time in the study of classics, history, metaphysics and political economy and in learning German, French and Italian.
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Meanwhile, George Grote had finally decided his philosophic and political attitude.
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George Grote settled in 1820 in a house attached to the bank in Threadneedle Street, where his only child died a week after its birth.
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Mrs George Grote claimed to have first suggested the History of Greece in 1823; but the book was already in preparation in 1822.
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George Grote was a member of the council which organized the faculties and the curriculum.
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George Grote rejoined the council in 1849 and was appointed Treasurer in 1860, then President in 1868.
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George Grote went abroad in 1830, and spent some months in Paris with the Liberal leaders.
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George Grote was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1853.
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In 1856, George Grote began to prepare his works on Plato and Aristotle.
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George Grote is said, in some estimations, to have been a man of strong character and self-control, unfailing courtesy and unswerving devotion to what he considered the best interests of the nation.
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George Grote's life has attracted a wide variety of biographical comment due to his strong views.