Grenville

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Grenville may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Organisations 4 Vessels 5 References

[edit] People

• Bevil
  • Bevil Grenville (1596–1643), Cornish Royalist military leader in the Civil War

• George
  • George Grenville (1712-1770), Whig, Prime Minister of Great Britain
  • George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) (2nd Earl Temple)
  • George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent (1789-1850) GCMG, politician of Ireland

• John
  • John A. S. Grenville, a Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Birmingham and the author of A History of the World in the 20th Century, a well used history textbook.
  • Sir John Grenville (1643–1701^[1]), the Royalist owner of the Isles of Scilly during the English Civil War.
• Richard
  • Richard Grenville (or Greynvile) (1542-1591) Elizabethan sailor
  • Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet (or Granville) (1600-1658) Cornish Royalist military leader in the Civil War
  • Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple (1711-1779)
  • Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839)
  • Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823-1889),
  • Richard John Grenville Spring (b.1946]) Conservative Party Member of Parliament
• Thomas
  • Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) British politician
• William
  • William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834) Prime Minister of Great Britain
  • William Grenville Davis (b.1929) Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario, Canada
• Others
  • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (P. G. Wodehouse) (1881-1975) English comic novelist
  • Grenville Turner (born 1936), pioneer of cosmochemistry

[edit] Places

• Canada
  • Grenville Residence Building, Carleton University
  • Grenville County, Ontario
  • Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario
  • North Grenville, Ontario
  • Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Quebec
  • Grenville Parish, Prince Edward Island
• Grenada
  • Grenville, Grenada
• United States
  • Grenville, New Mexico
  • Grenville, South Dakota
• Eastern North America
  • Grenville orogeny, an ancient mountain range

[edit] Organisations

• Grenville College, Bideford, North Devon, UK. An independent school specialising in dyslexic education, run by the Woodard Foundation, but founded by Sir Richard Grenville.

[edit] Vessels

• HMS Grenville (H03)

[edit] References

1. ^ GedBrowser