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An extravagant example of marshalling: the 719 quarterings of the George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham | Grenville Roll of arms | Armorial at Stowe House | Stowe.
* 1712 George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1770 )
" George Grenville, Prime Minister in the 1760s, said it was " an odious title " and never used it.
Prime Ministers of the period included: William Pitt the Younger, Lord Grenville, Duke of Portland, Spencer Perceval, Lord Liverpool, George Canning, Lord Goderich, Duke of Wellington, Lord Grey, Lord Melbourne, and Sir Robert Peel.
Pitt's brother-in-law George Grenville was given a major role in government, angering Pitt who felt Grenville should have resigned with him.
In 1763 he spoke against the unpopular tax on cider, imposed by his brother-in-law, George Grenville, and his opposition, though unsuccessful in the House, helped to keep alive his popularity with the country, which cordially hated the excise and all connected with it.
* October 14 George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1770 )
The Whigs were opposed by the government of Lord North, which they accused of being a " Tory " administration, although it largely consisted of individuals previously associated with the Whigs — many old Pelhamites, as well as the Whig faction formerly led by the Duke of Bedford, and elements of that which had been led by George Grenville, although it also contained elements of the " Kings ' Men ", the group formerly associated with Lord Bute and which was generally seen as Tory-leaning.
Several young politicians including William Pitt the Elder and George Grenville formed a faction known as the " Patriot Boys " and joined the Prince of Wales in opposition.
His mother, Hester Grenville, was sister to former prime minister George Grenville.
* George Grenville ( 1712 1770 )
George Grenvillewho became prime minister in April 1763 — had to find a way to pay for this large peacetime army.
Prime Minister George Grenville
Bute had by now resigned, but Wilkes was equally opposed to his successor, George Grenville.
Over the next several years, Rockingham gradually became the leader of those of Newcastle's supporters who were unwilling to reconcile themselves to the premierships of Bute and his successor, George Grenville.
Grenville had increasingly strained relations with his colleagues and the King and in 1765 he was dismissed by George III and replaced by Lord Rockingham.
George Grenville was born at Wotton House on 15 October 1712.
It was intended by his parents that George Grenville should become a lawyer.
In particular he enjoyed the patronage of Lord Cobham, the leader of a faction that included George Grenville, his brother Richard, William Pitt and George Lyttelton that became known as Cobham's Cubs.
In May 1762, Grenville was appointed Northern Secretary, where he took an increasingly hard-line in the negotiations with France and Spain designed to bring the Seven Years War to a close .< ref > George Grenville, Smith Rebellion 1765 < span style =" font-size: 8pt "> Retrieved: 28 October 2010 </ span ></ font > Sources: * History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent Volume V. Bancroft, George.

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Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).
His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.
George Washington ( February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 ), the country's first president, is often said to be the father of his country.
Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.
Davenport was established on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire, and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war.
As soon as Elihu Yale took over the administration of Fort St George on July 26, 1687, he implemented an order dated January 14, 1685 which required the English at Fort St George to make all attempts at procurement of the town of St Thome on lease.
* Woodwell, George M. and Holdren, John P. " Climate-Change Skeptics Are Wrong ", The New York Times, November 14, 1998.
George Walton Lucas, Jr. ( born May 14, 1944 ) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur.
George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.
Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel Umbrella.
In 1923, an extension to the east side of the building in John Street was opened and in 1984 Exchange House in George Street was completed, increasing the size of the City Chambers complex to some 14, 000 square metres.
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After studying art at the Dresden Academy alongside Otto Dix and George Grosz, ( although Schwitters seems to have been unaware of their work, or indeed of contemporary Dresden artists Die Brücke ), 1909 14, Schwitters returned to Hanover and started his artistic career as a post-impressionist.
At the age of 14, George lost his father ; a few years later, George's mother, Polychronia, died.
Bill Walsh retired as head coach after San Francisco's 20 16 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in the previous year's Super Bowl XXIII but rookie head coach George Seifert did not miss a beat as he guided the 49ers to a league best 14 2 regular season record.
He was commissioned as a major, then became George Washington's aide-de-camp and, on August 14, 1775 Washington appointed him to become the army's first Quartermaster General under order of Congress.
Notable acts as president included George Washington resigning his commission and the signing of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 ( Ratification Day ) along with Charles Thomson, who served as Secretary.
* Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005, when explosives equivalent to around 1, 000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
* February 14 George Monck ’ s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards ( which later becomes Coldstream Guards )
* July 14 George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier ( d. 1657 )
* July 14 In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument to honor an African American.
* July 7 Following Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, the four conspirators condemned to death during the trial are hanged, including David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Payne and Mary Surratt.
* February 14 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel ( d. 1896 )

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