George (Grenville) Nugent-Temple-Grenville KG PC (1753 - 1813)

Born 17 Jun 1753 in England

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Died 11 Feb 1813 at age 59 in England

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George Grenville was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

George was born on 17 June 1753. He was the son of Rt Hon George Grenville and Elizabeth Wyndham. George succeeded his father on 13 November 1770 and his uncle as 3rd Earl Temple 11 September 1779 and took the names of Nugent-Temple before that of Grenville. He was made a Privy Counsellor on 31 July 1782, created Marquess of Buckingham on 4 December 1784 and a Knight of the Garter on 2 June 1786. George died on 11 February 1813.^[1]

On 16 April 1775, George married Lady Mary Elizabeth Nugent, daughter and coheir of Robert, 1st Earl Nugent. George and Mary had two sons and two daughters.^[1]

George was the eldest son of George Grenville , the Prime Minister of Great Britain and his wife Elizabeth Wyndham, the daughter of Sir William Wyndham 3rd Baronet and was born on 17 June 1753 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. In 1764 , he was appointed a Teller of the Exchequer, He was educated at Eton College from 1764 to 1770 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1770Clare (later the 1st Earl Nugent)

Grenville was returned as Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire at the 1774 general election and in the House of Commons he emerged as a sharp critic of the American policy of Lord North. In September he succeeded his uncle as Earl Temple and moved to the House of Lords

He also took the additional family names Nugent (His Spouse's surname the heiress of Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent ) and Temple by Royal Warrant issued on 4 December making the compound name Nugent-Temple-Grenville. In 1782 Lord Temple was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and in July 1782 became a member of the Privy Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of Lord Shelbourne .and he was instrumental in the enactment of the Renunciation Act of 1783, which supplemented the legislative independence granted to Ireland in 1782. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and by Royal Warrant , he created the Order of St Patrick in February 1783, with himself as Grand Master, He left Ireland in 1783 and turned his attention to English polotics enjoying the confidence of King George III and having opposed Fox's East India Bill, he was authorised by the King to say that whoever voted for the India Bill was not only his friend , but would be considered by him as an enemy a message which ensured the defeat of the Bill. He was appointed a Secretary of State when the younger Pitt [his father's sister son] formed his ministry in December 1783 but resigned only three days later.

In December 1784 , Lord Temple was created Marquess of Buckingham, in November 1787 and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the second time under Pitt but proved less successful than before and was denounced by Grattan for extravagance, the Irish Houses of Parliament censured him for refusing to transmit to England an address calling upon the Prince of Wales to assume the regency, and he could only maintain his position by resorting to bribery on a large scale. When his father-in-law died in 1788 Lord Buckingham succeeded him as 2nd Earl Nugent, However since he already held the higher rank of Marquess, he was never known by this title, having become very unpopular and he resigned his office in September 1789

He subsequently took very little part in politics, although he spoke in favour of the Act of Union of 1800, his wife died in 1812 and died on 11 February 1813 at his residence in Stowe, Buckinghamshire and buried at his ancestral Wotton, he left two sons, The 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and the 2nd Baron Nugent

He succeeded his father on 13 November 1770 and in 1774 he undertook a Grand Tour through Italy and Austria. In 1775 he married the Hon. Mary Nugent daughter of the 1st Viscount

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Mary M Drummond, ‘GRENVILLE, George (1753-1813)’, The History of Parliament, Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust, (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/grenville-george-1753-1813 : accessed 3 June 2016).

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Grenville, George (1753-1813) History of Parliament Retrieved 9 October 2017

The London Gazette 30 November 1779