- J. V. Beckett
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George Grenville ( 1712?1770 )
Grenville, George ( 1712?1770 ), primary minister , was given birth to in the Wotton, Buckinghamshire, to your fourteen October 1712, another of one’s half a dozen sons from Richard Grenville (1678?1727) , landowner and you can whig MP, and his spouse, Hester (bap. 1684, d. 1752) , the second girl of Sir Richard Temple, third baronet , away from Stowe, Buckinghamshire.
Knowledge and you may family relations
Grenville try knowledgeable during the Eton University from 1725 and you may entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1730, but don’t graduate. While the landless younger boy regarding an excellent squire, he was obviously doomed to own an appropriate community. When you look at the 1729 he inserted within Interior Temple, whence he had been titled towards the pub in 1735, and he hired spaces around up until 1744. The guy handled the new family members’ courtroom company, but it is unclear how far he engaged in general habit prior to politics involved with it his attract.
Grenville due his governmental job so you can his mom’s cousin, Richard Forehead, very first Viscount Cobham off Stowe , who within general election away from 1741 brought your towards the parliament to own his borough out-of Buckingham, a chair Grenville kept up until their demise. The guy inserted his uncle’s youthful opposition set of Cobham’s Cubs , certainly whom William Pitt is actually the latest rising celebrity. The prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole , called them this new Boy Patriots . [Read more…]