17 Facts About William Grenville

1.

William Grenville was thus uncle to the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

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2.

William Grenville was educated at Eton College; Christ Church, Oxford; and Lincoln's Inn.

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3.

William Grenville soon became a close ally of the prime minister, his cousin William Pitt the Younger.

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4.

William Grenville left the House the following year and served in the government as Paymaster of the Forces from 1784 to 1789.

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5.

William Grenville became Leader of the House of Lords when he was raised to the peerage the next year as Baron Grenville, of Wotton under Bernewood in the County of Buckingham.

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6.

William Grenville left office with Pitt in 1801 over the issue of George III's refusal to assent to Catholic emancipation.

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7.

William Grenville did part-time military service at home as Major in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry cavalry in 1794 and as lieutenant-colonel in the South Buckinghamshire volunteer regiment in 1806.

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8.

Grenville's cousin William Windham served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and his younger brother, Thomas Grenville, served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty.

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9.

William Grenville served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1810 until his death in 1834.

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10.

William Grenville'storians find it hard to tell exactly which separate roles Pitt, Grenville and Dundas played in setting war policy toward France but agree that Grenville played a major role at all times until 1801.

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11.

William Grenville energetically worked to build and hold together the Allied coalitions and paid suitable attention to smaller members such as Denmark and Sardinia.

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12.

William Grenville negotiated the complex alliance with Russia and Austria.

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13.

William Grenville hoped that with British financing, they would bear the brunt of the ground campaigns against the French.

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14.

William Grenville's influence was at the maximum during the formation of the Second Coalition.

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15.

William Grenville knew the spot from rambles during his time at Eton College and prized its distant views of his old school and of Windsor Castle.

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16.

Lord William Grenville married Anne, daughter of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, in 1792.

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17.

William Grenville died in January 1834, aged 74, when the barony became extinct.

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