Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Grenville, George


Grenville, George, s. Richard, of St. James's, Westminster, arm. Christ Church, matric. 6 Feb., 1729-30, aged 17; bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1735, bencher 1763, M.P. Buckingham 1741-70, privy councillor 1754, treasurer of the Navy 1756, etc., 1st lord of the Admiralty 1763, 1st lord of the Treasury 1763, chancellor of the Exchequer 1763 to July, 1765, died at Wotton 13 Nov., 1770. See Foster's Peerage, D. Buckingham.