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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 as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars.
During the 1780s, he served as Paymaster of the Forces and Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1790, Grenville was elevated to the House of Lords as Lord Grenville. Between 1790-1801, he would be the Leader of the House of Lords, providing critical support to Pitt in the upper house.
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville was the son of George Grenville, an earlier Prime Minister. Despite the brevity of his time as Prime Minister, William Grenville’s extended...
Chancellor of Oxford University 1810-34. Son of the ex-Prime Minister George Grenville (ministry 1763-65) and cousin of William Pitt 'the Younger', William Grenville's greatest achievement was the abolition of the British overseas slave trade.
Jun 8, 2018 · Grenville, William Wyndham, 1st Lord (1759–1834). Prime minister. The third son of George Grenville, prime minister 1763–5, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a distinguished classical scholar. He entered Parliament in 1782 and cast in his lot with his cousin the young William Pitt.
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, was a British Pittite Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars.
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William Grenville, who served as Prime Minister from 11 February 1806 to 25 March 1807, was born on 24 October 1759, the third son and sixth of nine children born to George Grenville and Elizabeth Wyndham. In 1792, he married Anne Pitt. She was the daughter of Thomas Pitt, first Baron Camelford.
