Cook's aptitude for surveying was put to good use mapping the jagged coast of Newfoundland in the 1760s, aboard the HMS Grenville.

" George Grenville, Prime Minister in the 1760s, said it was " an odious title " and never used it.

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.

Pitt's brother-in-law George Grenville was given a major role in government, angering Pitt who felt Grenville should have resigned with him.

Accordingly he obtained a pension of £ 3000 a year and his wife, Lady Hester Grenville was created Baroness Chatham in her own right-although Pitt refused to accept a title himself.

During the visit Lincoln was to spend 2 hours with M & M engineer Grenville M. Dodge at the Pacific House Hotel discussing the merits of starting the railroad in Council Bluffs and was to visit Cemetery Hill there to look over the proposed route.

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.

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.

He was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville to North Carolina in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition.

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

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.

His mother, Hester Grenville, was sister to former prime minister George Grenville.

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

The layout of the city was the work of engineer General Grenville M. Dodge of the California Construction Company.

When Grenville formed a " Ministry of All the Talents " out of his supporters, the followers of Addington and the Foxites, Fox was once again offered the post of Foreign Secretary, which he accepted in February.

In the federal election of 1878, he ran in Halton and was re-elected in the election of 1882 in Algoma and Grenville South in the election of 1887 he was defeated.

When Fox and William Grenville came into power in 1806 Grattan, who sat at this time for Dublin City, was offered, but refused to accept, an office in the government.

At the time of the passage of the Sugar Act in April 1764, Grenville made it clear that the right to tax the colonies was not in question, and that additional taxes, including a stamp tax, might follow.

For Grenville, the first issue was the amount of the tax.

Grenville replied that he wanted to raise the money " by means the most easy and least objectionable to the Colonies " and Thomas Whately, who had drafted the Stamp Act, said the delay in implementation had been " out of Tenderness to the colonies " and the tax was judged as " the easiest, the most equal and the most certain.

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.

In August 1763 Sandwich became Secretary of State for the Northern Department, in the government of George Grenville who had replaced Bute.

Shortly afterwards, Bute chose to resign as Prime Minister and retire from politics and was replaced by George Grenville.

In 1905 the school was demolished and replaced with a new stone building that is now used as the North Grenville Archives.

Shortly thereafter, George Grenville replaced Bute.

* 1759 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1834 )

* 1712 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1770 )

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.

* 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.

* January 12 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1759 )

* October 25 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1834 )

* October 14 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1770 )

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.

Because of the hardline stance of Grenville and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, their distrust of Bonaparte, and obvious defects in the proposals, they were rejected out of hand.

Prime Minister George Grenville

The king's dislike of Grenville, as well as his general lack of parliamentary support, led to his dismissal in 1765, and, following negotiations conducted through the medium of the king's uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Rockingham was appointed Prime Minister.

George Grenville ( 14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770 ) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain.

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Grenville's own son, William Grenville, later served briefly as Prime Minister.

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