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    William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, PC, PC (Ire), FRS (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who served...
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    causing a rift with his brother-in-law and political ally William Pitt who had resigned. Grenville was subsequently made Northern Secretary and First Lord...
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    William Grenville Davis, PC, CC, OOnt, QC (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971...
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    Prime Minister George Grenville and Elizabeth Wyndham, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet. George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham...
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  • was the mother and grandmother of the Prime Ministers George Grenville and William Grenville. She was the daughter (and eventual co-heir) of Sir Richard...
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    elder brother), and the elder brother of Thomas Grenville and of William Grenville (later 1st Baron Grenville and also Prime Minister of Great Britain). In...
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    granduncle was William Pitt the Elder. She married then-Foreign Secretary William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, on 18 July 1792. The Grenville family was...
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    formed by William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, on his appointment as Prime Minister on 11 February 1806, following the death of William Pitt the Younger...
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  • Grenville may refer to: George Grenville (1712–1770), Prime Minister 1763–1765 William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759–1834), his son, Prime Minister...
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    The county was created in 1792, and named in honour of William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, who was the British Secretary of State responsible for...
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    Grenvillite (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    associated with the important Grenville family of Buckinghamshire. The Grenville family interest, led by Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, which...
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    The Trial of Queen Caroline (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    and Lord Castlereagh along with former or future Prime Ministers William Grenville, Henry Addington, Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne. Also included...
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    Pitt was succeeded as Prime Minister by his first cousin William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, who headed the Ministry of All the Talents, a coalition...
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    hesitant Wilberforce held a conversation with William Pitt and the future Prime Minister William Grenville as they sat under a large oak tree on Pitt's...
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    briefly as Foreign Secretary in the 'Ministry of All the Talents' of William Grenville before he died on 13 September 1806, aged 57. Fox was born in London...
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    The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, commonly known as Leeds and Grenville, is a county in Ontario, Canada, in the Eastern Ontario subregion of...
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    Goderich William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey Emma, Lady Hamilton William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt Ann Hatton William Hazlitt...
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    Slave Trade Act 1807 (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    the government under Lord Grenville, whose short term as prime minister was known as the Ministry of All the Talents. Grenville himself led the fight to...
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    1807 United Kingdom general election (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    and Grenvillite Whig and Addingtonite Tory factions, with William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, as Prime Minister continued in office. It had attempted...
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    1806 United Kingdom general election (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    a group of Pitt's former supporters (such as his cousin William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville) who had aligned themselves with Fox in opposition to Addington...
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    Battle of Gotthard Pass (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville was the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs serving with Prime Minister William Pitt...
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  • 1805 10 July 1805 William Pitt the Younger (second term) Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal 5 February 1806 15 October 1806 The Lord Grenville Lord President...
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  • 1763 to 1765; the daughter of Sir William Wyndham, a prominent Tory politician; and the mother of William Grenville, prime minister from 1806 to 1807...
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    Jay Treaty (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    [2] Negus, Samuel D. "'Further concessions cannot be attained': the Jay-Grenville treaty and the politics of Anglo-American relations, 1789–1807. Texas...
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  • Triple Alliance (1788) (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    unpredictable shift of power. By mid- and late April, with William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville replacing Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds as the Foreign...
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    Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC (26 September 1711 – 12 September 1779), was a British politician. He is best known for his association...
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    Treaty of Lunéville (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    for a separate peace. On 7 September, British Foreign Minister, Lord Grenville dispatched a counterproject to Paris, which contained a proposed naval...
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    Dropmore Park (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    members of the public. Dropmore House was built in the 1790s for Lord Grenville, who later as Prime Minister pushed through the law abolishing the slave...
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  •  England William Pitt 1783 to 1801 1804 to 1806 Hayes, Kent  England William Grenville 1806 to 1807 Wotton, Buckinghamshire  England William Cavendish-Bentinck...
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    Treaty of Amiens (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
    British foreign secretary Lord Grenville as early as 1799. Because of the hardline stance of Grenville and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, their distrust...
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