Bevil Granville

Sir Bevil Granville (died 1706) was an English soldier who served as Governor of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall and as Governor of Barbados.

Granville was the eldest son of Bernard Granville (1631–1701) (4th son of Sir Bevil Grenville (1596–1643) who died in heroic circumstances at the Battle of Lansdowne), Master of the Horse and a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles II (1660–1685) and MP for Launceston, Saltash, Lostwithiel and Plymouth, by his wife Anne Morley, daughter and sole heiress of Cuthbert Morley of Hornby, Yorkshire. His uncle was John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701), of Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall, who played a prominent role in the Restoration of the Monarchy of 1660. His family was descended from Sir Richard I de Grenville (d. post 1142) (alias de Grainvilla, de Greinvill, etc.), one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, of Neath Castle, Glamorgan and of Bideford, Devon and Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall. In 1661 the family changed the spelling of its surname from Grenville to Granville, to emphasise its supposed origins at Granville, Normandy.

After keeping his terms at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was awarded Master of Arts in 1679. He then obtained a commission in the regiment of foot nominally commanded by his uncle, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701). He received the honour of knighthood from King James II (1685–1688). He was engaged in military action in the Low Countries. In December 1693 he came over from Flanders, waited on King William III, of whom he seems to have been a favourite, and gave him an account of the state of that country.

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