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unusual facts about Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos



Alfred Arthur O'Connor

Returned to Ballarat and was elected into parliament for Grenville during 1861.

Banbury Merton Street railway station

The line was to be worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) which had supported the building of the line and which was represented on the board of the Buckinghamshire Railway by Edward Watkin who, together with the Duke of Buckingham and local landowner Sir Harry Verney M.P., was one of the driving forces behind the line.

Bernard Drake

Sir Bernard Drake was an 11th-generation descendant of Edward I through his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Grenville, of Stowe, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.

He was the eldest son of John Drake, gentleman, of Ashe in the parish of Musbury, Devon, and his wife, Amy, daughter of Sir Roger Grenville.

Bevil Granville

Grenville was the grandson of Sir Bevil Grenville, and the son of Bernard Grenville, M.P., and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II, by his wife Anne, daughter and sole heiress of Cuthbert Morley of Hornby, Yorkshire.

Bevil Grenville

Grenville was born near Withiel, west of Bodmin, Cornwall, the son of Sir Bernard Grenville by his wife Elizabeth Bevil, and was a grandson of Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), the heroic Elizabethan naval captain, explorer, and soldier.

Chandos portrait

The painting passed through descent within the Chandos title until Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos sold it to the Earl of Ellesmere in 1848.

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope

Henry Grenville (governor of Barbados in 1746 and ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in 1762), a younger brother of the 1st Earl Temple and of George Grenville.

Dolphin Square

At the south (Thames) side of the Square the houses are Grenville, Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins.

Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

They received a good deal of hospitality from the family of Lord Buckingham, who lived nearby at Stowe.

Eugene P. Trani

Dr. Trani is also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London; Phi Kappa Phi; the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; the Organization of American Historians; and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Grenville Clark Fund at Dartmouth College.

Fairmount and Veblen Railway

The line was extended southward the following year, from Veblen to Roslyn, and then eastward to Grenville.

Frederick John French

He represented Grenville South and then Grenville in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1879 to 1890.

George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham

He was appointed a Secretary of State when the younger Pitt (who was his first cousin, being his father's sister's son) formed his Ministry in December 1783, but resigned only three days later.

He was instrumental in the enactment of the Renunciation Act of 1783, which supplemented the legislative independence granted to Ireland in 1782.

In 1775, George married Lady Mary Nugent, daughter of the 1st Viscount Clare (later the 1st Earl Nugent).

Georgina Grenville

Grenville has made cameo appearances in an episode of the British comedy Absolutely Fabulous and in the film 54.

Grenville, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge

The name "Grenville" comes from William Wyndham Grenville, a British statesman who served briefly as British prime minister (1806–1807).

Grenvillite

The Grenvillites or Grenvilles were a name given to several British political factions of the 18th and early-19th centuries, all associated with the important Grenville family of Buckinghamshire.

Notable members of the group included Lord Spencer, Lord Fitzwilliam, William Windham, and Buckingham and Grenville's older brother Thomas Grenville.

After Lord Temple's death in 1779, George Grenville's sons, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 3rd Earl Temple (from 1784 the Marquess of Buckingham), and William Wyndham Grenville became the principle figures in the Grenville family interest.

Heaton, Newcastle

In the 12th century Heaton became part of the Barony of Ellingham granted by Henry I to Nicholas de Grenville.

Hilton London Paddington

The 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, whose former seat was Stowe House, died as a bankrupt in the hotel in July 1861.

Mary Gaunt

She was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, being one of the first two women students to enroll there.

Mistress Masham's Repose

Blenheim Palace and Stowe House are in turn linked in that Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who developed the house and gardens at Stowe in the early eighteenth century, was a notable officer serving under the Duke of Marlborough.

Mont Blanc du Tacul

The official first ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul was by a guideless party comprising Charles Hudson, Edward John Stevenson, Christopher and James Grenville Smith, E. S. Kennedy, Charles Ainslie and G. C. Joad on 8 August 1855.

Moreton House

The house and lands were long the property of the famous Grenville family, Lords of the Manor of Bideford.

New Cornish Tertia army

The Tertia (another name for division) consisted of four regiments, under the command of John Arundell and Richard Arundell who were brothers, Lewis Tremaine and Grenville himself.

Peter Bevan-Baker

Bevan-Baker joined the Green Party of Canada in 1992, and has run as a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the elections of 1993, 1997 and 2000 in the riding of Leeds/Grenville in Ontario, and 2008 and 2011 in Malpeque, PEI.

Richard Drake

Drake was the third son of John Drake (d.1558), of Ashe in Musbury, Devonshire, and Amy Grenville, daughter of Sir Roger Grenville of Stowe, Cornwall.

Richard Temple

Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826–1902), British colonial administrator and politician

Sir Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), Nineteenth century writer on India and Burma.

Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Born at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, Buckingham was the son of the Earl Temple (later created The 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos) and Lady Anne, daughter of The 3rd Duke of Chandos.

Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham

After Walpole's fall as Prime Minister in 1742, they turned their attacks on his replacement – a government led by Lord Wilmington and Carteret.

Ronnie Prophet

In his childhood, Ronnie Prophet lived in Calumet, Quebec and began performing at local venues in his youth.

Samuel Rogers

Rogers himself kept a notebook in which he entered impressions of the conversation of many of his distinguished friends—Fox, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, Richard Porson, John Horne Tooke, Talleyrand, Lord Erskine, Scott, Lord Grenville and the Duke of Wellington.

Seditious Meetings Act 1795

The Seditious Meetings Act 1795 (36 Geo.3 c.8), approved by the British Parliament in November 1795, was the second of the well known "Two Acts" (also known as the "Gagging Acts" or the "Grenville and Pitt Bills"), the other being the Treason Act 1795.

Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet

Grenville was immortalised in Daphne Du Maurier's 1948 novel The King's General, which has subsequently been adapted into a play, which is to be performed at Restormel Castle, Cornwall in May 2009.

Stowe manuscripts

The manuscripts were originally collected by The 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753 - 1813) and his son, The 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776 - 1839), at Stowe House near Buckingham.

The manuscripts were then sold to The 4th Earl of Ashburnham in 1849, having been prepared for sale by auction, following the bankruptcy of The 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

Stowe Missal

Also known as the Lorrha Missal, it is known as the "Stowe" Missal as it once belonged to the Stowe manuscripts collection formed by George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham at Stowe House.

Theresa Doughty Tichborne

At the remand hearing, held at the Bow Street Police Court in London, Theresa 'protested that she did not intend to do any harm to Miss Grenville' and 'her only motive' in writing to Granard (who was married to wealthy American heiress Beatrice Mills) was 'to attract attention to her case'.

Thomas Grenville

Rare volumes include a vellum copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which Grenville bought in France in 1817 for 6260 francs, a Mainz Psalter and a Shakespeare First Folio.

Tuart Hill, Western Australia

In 1914 the suburb name of Grenville was proposed as a name for the suburb by the Grenville Progress Association, but not accepted due to its likeness to Granville in New South Wales.

Vere Temple

Vere Temple was born at Boreham Manor, two miles east of Warminster, Wiltshire to parents Grenville and Katherine Temple.

Year of the Cat

Stewart wrote "Lord Grenville" about the Elizabethan sailor and explorer Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591).


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