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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Thomas Grenville (175 words) |
 | Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), was a British politician and bibliophile. |
| Grenville was the son of George Grenville, a British prime minister. |
| In June 1747 Grenville became a lord of the treasury, and in 1754 treasurer of the navy and privy councillor. |
| William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (683 words) |
| The son of Prime Minister George Grenville, Grenville studied at Eton, Christ Church, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, and entered the Commons in 1782 and soon became a close ally of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, serving in the government as Paymaster of the Forces from 1784 to 1789. |
| During the war, Grenville was the leader of the party that focused on the fighting on the continent as the key to victory, opposing the faction of Henry Dundas which favored war at sea and in the colonies. |
| Following Pitt's death in 1806, Grenville became the head of the "Ministry of all The Talents", a coalition between Grenville's supporters, the Foxite Whigs, and the supporters of former Prime Minister Lord Sidmouth, with Grenville as First Lord of the Treasury and Fox as Foreign Secretary as joint leaders. |
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