George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was one of the few prime ministers (others include William Pitt the Younger, Sir Winston Churchill, George Canning, Spencer Percival, and William Gladstone) who never acceded to the peerage.
Grenville was the second son of Richard Gr...
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George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was one of the few prime ministers (others include William Pitt the Younger, Sir Winston Churchill, George Canning, Spencer Percival, and William Gladstone) who never acceded to the peerage.
Grenville was the second son of Richard Grenville and Hester Temple (later the 1st Countess Temple). His elder brother was Richard Grenville-Temple, later the 2nd Earl Temple. Grenville received his education at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1736.
He entered Parliament in 1741 as member for Buckingham, and continued to represent that borough for the next twenty nine years until his death.
In Parliament he subscribed to the "Boy Patriot" party which opposed Sir Robert Walpole. In particular he enjoyed the patronage of Lord Cobham, the leader of...
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