Thomas Grenville
|
The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville |
|
|---|---|
.jpg) |
|
| President of the Board of Control | |
|
In office 1806–1806 |
|
| Monarch | George III |
| Prime Minister | The Lord Grenville |
| Preceded by | The Lord Minto |
| Succeeded by | George Tierney |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | |
|
In office 1806–1807 |
|
| Monarch | George III |
| Prime Minister | The Lord Grenville |
| Preceded by | Viscount Howick |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Mulgrave |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 December 1755 |
| Died |
17 December 1846 (aged 90) Piccadilly, London |
| Nationality | British |
Thomas Grenville PC (31 December 1755 – 17 December 1846) was a British politician and bibliophile.
Grenville was the second son of Prime Minister George Grenville and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet. George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, was his elder brother and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, his younger brother. He was educated at Eton.
In 1778, he was commissioned ensign in the Coldstream Guards and in 1779 promoted a lieutenant in the 80th Regiment of Foot, but resigned his commission in 1780. He was, with one interval, a member of parliament from 1780 to 1810, and for a few months during 1806 and 1807 President of the Board of Control (1806) and then First Lord of the Admiralty (1806–1807). In 1798, he was sworn of the Privy Council.
On 1 February 1799 Grenville and a party were travelling on HMS Proserpine when she was wrecked near Scharhörn off the Elbe. She was trying to deliver Grenville and his party to Cuxhaven, from where they were to proceed on a diplomatic mission to meet Frederick William III of Prussia in Berlin during the War of the Second Coalition. Proserpine was stuck in ice in worsening weather. At 1:30, on 2 February, all 187 persons on Prosperine left her and started the six-mile walk to the island Neuwerk, in freezing weather and falling snow. Seven seamen, a boy, four Royal Marines, and one woman and her child died; the rest made it to safety in the tower of Neuwerk. The diplomatic party reached Cuxhaven on 6 February to continue to Berlin via Hamburg and return to London on 23 March.
...
Wikipedia