Lord Grenville replied that " he must remind him, that so far from there having been any difference in the state of the Country when that great man lived, and the present times, his book was first published at a period, previous to which there had been two or three seasons of great dearth and distress ; and during those seasons there were speculators without number, who raised an unfounded and unjust clamour against Forestallers and Regraters, and who proposed that a certain price should be fixed on every article: but all their plans were wisely rejected, and the Treatise on the Wealth of Nations, which came forward soon after, pointed out in the clearest light how absurd and futile they must have been ".

Lord Grenville replied that " the mere fact of a nobleman being removed from being Lord Lieutenant of Ireland " meant no censure of a personal nature, nor for any investigation.

Addington was driven from office in May 1804 by an alliance of Pitt, Charles James Fox and William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, who decided that they wanted Cabinet offices for themselves.

The Grenville ministry therefore decided that Parliament would raise this revenue by taxing the American colonists without their consent.

Estimating the expenses of maintaining an army in the Continental colonies and the West Indies to be approximately £ 200, 000 annually, Grenville devised a revenue-raising program that would raise an estimated £ 78, 000 per year.

The major investor in the Union Pacific was Thomas Clark Durant, who had made his stake money by smuggling Confederate cotton with the aid of Grenville M. Dodge.

About this time complaints were brought against Grenville, saying that he had behaved in a very arbitrary fashion, hanging some men and imprisoning others, extorting money and using war contributions for his own ends.

Before returning to Berlin to make arrangements for transferring himself finally to Vienna, Gentz paid a visit to London, where he made the acquaintance of Pitt and Grenville, who were so impressed with his talents that, in addition to large money presents, he was guaranteed an annual pension by the British government in recognition of the value of the services of his pen against Bonaparte.

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.

* January 23 – Grenville succeeds William Pitt the Younger as wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, upon Pitt's death this day amidst worsening health caused by the stresses of the Napoleonic Wars.

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.

The enterprise was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin.

Based on this information, Raleigh organized a second expedition, to be led by Sir Richard Grenville.

The colony was established by Richard Grenville, who bought back two native Indians, one of them Manteo which gave the North Carolina town its name.

The grassroots world federalist movement in the US, led by people such as Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Alan Cranston and Robert Hutchins, organized itself into increasingly larger structures, finally forming, in 1947, the United World Federalists ( later renamed to World Federalist Association, then Citizens for Global Solutions ), claiming membership of 47, 000 in 1949.

The " Lost " colony was established by Richard Grenville, who brought back two native Indians, one of them Manteo.

" Also hung was a Jack boot painted green on the bottom (" a Green-ville sole ") – a pun on both Grenville and the Earl of Bute, the two persons most blamed by the colonists.

Grenville was replaced as Prime Minister on July 10, 1765, by Lord Rockingham, the first lord of the treasury.

When Parliament met in December 1765, it rejected a resolution offered by Grenville, who remained in Parliament, that would have condemned colonial resistance to the enforcement of the Act.

William Pitt, in the Parliamentary debate, stated that everything done by the Grenville ministry with respect to the colonies " has been entirely wrong.

Bute had by now resigned, but Wilkes was equally opposed to his successor, George Grenville.

Grenville was subsequently made Northern Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty by the new Prime Minister Lord Bute.

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.

It was intended by his parents that George Grenville should become a lawyer.

Grenville and Pitt both championed the formation of a British militia to provide additional security rather than the deployment of Hessian mercenaries favoured by the government.

However his seven year old son died after a long illness and Grenville remained by his side at their country house in Wooton and barely came to London.

The commission comprised four of the most eminent people in the country: the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Grenville, the Lord Chancellor Lord Erskine, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Ellenborough and the Home Secretary Lord Spencer.

Howard mentions Grenville in several other Solomon Kane stories and poems, most prominently in " The Return of Sir Richard Grenville ".

* 1595: The most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinvile ( 1595 ), reprinted ( 1871 ) by Professor E. Arber, a prolix and euphuistic poem in eight-lined stanzas on Sir Richard Grenville ;

With the country at war, Grenville aimed to form the strongest possible government and so included most leading politicians from almost all groupings, although some followers of Pitt, led by George Canning, refused to join.

But the process of collecting a fresh royal army was slow, and Goring and his subordinate, Sir Richard Grenville, were alienating the King's most devoted adherents by their rapacity, cruelty and debauchery.

The most living former Prime Ministers at any one time has been 5, which has happened several times: the first time was between Jan and Nov 1770, while Lord North was in office, and The Earl of Bute, George Grenville, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Pitt the Elder, and the 3rd Duke of Grafton were still alive ( Grenville died in Nov 1770 ); the most recent was between Nov 1990 and May 1995, while John Major was in office, and Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan and Thatcher were still alive ( Wilson died in May 1995 ).

The timescale outlined in Toby Rivers ’ recent work is derived from the well-preserved Grenville Province, and represents one of the most detailed records of the orogeny.

Hence, most of what is known about the orogeny and its processes is derived from the Grenville Province.

Geologists have identified at least five separate events which have led to sediment deposition, including the Grenville orogeny ( the collision of continents that created the supercontinent Rodinia ) and the Appalachian orogeny during the formation of Pangaea.

Grenville's cousin William Windham served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and his younger brother, Thomas Grenville, served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty.

The Thomas Grenville | Grenville Library, ( 1875 )

Sir Thomas Grenville ( 1755 – 1846 ), a Trustee of The British Museum from 1830, assembled a fine library of 20, 240 volumes, which he left to the Museum in his will.

Pitt was personally saddened when his friend and brother-in-law Thomas Grenville was killed at the naval First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747.

# Thomas Grenville, a Member of Parliament and book-collector

Lord Grenville married the Honourable Anne, daughter of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, in 1792.

Thomas Grenville succeeds Howick at the Admiralty.

Grenville's birthplace is unknown, but he spent much of his childhood at Clifton Arundell House after his mother remarried Thomas Arundell following the death of his father Sir Roger Grenville, who was Captain of the Mary Rose when it sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545.

Grenville was appointed vice-admiral of the fleet under Thomas Howard.

* Powell, Andrew Thomas, Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke ( London 2011 ).

He was the nephew of Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, and the elder brother of Thomas Grenville and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, also Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Thomas Grenville and Lord Grenville were his uncles.

Thomas Grenville PC ( 31 December 1755 – 17 December 1846 ) was a British politician and bibliophile.

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