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William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville

Also known as: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville; primary name: Grenville, William Wyndham; other name: (Baron) Grenville
Details: individual; politician/statesman; British; Male
Life dates: 1759-1834
Biography: Politician. Son of George Grenville, nephew of the 2nd Earl Temple and cousin of Pitt the Younger (qq.v.); February 1782, MP for Buckingham; July 1782-83, Irish chief secretary (under the Lord Lieutenantship of his brother the 3rd Earl Temple), the start of a continuing interest in Irish politics; 1784, MP for Buckinghamshire; 1784-91, series of ministerial and advisory positions supporting Pitt and served briefly in 1789 as Speaker of the House of Commons; 1790, created Baron Grenville and became Leader of the House of Lords; 1791-1801, foreign secretary; 1801, resigned over George III's refusal to allow Roman Catholics to sit in parliament, and fell out with Pitt over plans for the Peace of Amiens and became closer to Fox; 1806-07, prime minister, pursued war with France and passed the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, resigned again over the king's refusal to remove restrictions on Roman Catholics; remained leader of the Whigs until his retirement from parliament in 1817. Grenville's appearance lent itself to caricature, according to P J Jupp writing in the ODNB: "When Grenville became foreign secretary he was on the verge of his thirty-second birthday and had acquired an appearance and habits that changed little thereafter. By that stage he needed spectacles for reading and had acquired a disproportionately prominent head and posterior. These, together with his habit of always wearing the same type of nondescript clothes, gave him the ungainly and goblin-like appearance that earned him the nickname Bogey."
Bibliography: DNB

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Museum number: 1868,0808.6443 |
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Museum number: 1868,0808.7563 |
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Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: Phaeton alarm'd! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13678.+ |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
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Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: Lilliputian-substitutes, Equiping for public service. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1056 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1801 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: The Cabinetical Balance. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1190 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: National Phrenzy, or, John Bull and his Doctors!. Plte 1st |
Museum number: 1859,0316.63 |
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Production date: 1813 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: The introduction of the Pope to the convocation at Oxford, by the Cardunal Broad-Bottom. |
Museum number: 1978,U.914 |
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Production date: 1817 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Royal bull-fight |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13654 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Substitutes for bread; -or- right honorables, saving the loaves, & dividing the fishes |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6492 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: An old fox caught at last!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7253 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac CruikshankPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Lilliputian-substitutes, equiping for public service |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6951 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
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Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: A charm for a democracy, reviewed, analysed, & destroyed Jany 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affil |
Museum number: 1978,U.907 |
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Production date: 1820 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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print; satirical print

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Museum number: 1851,0901.754 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Phaeton alarm'd! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10394 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1808 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Museum number: 1868,0808.6077 |
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Museum number: 1851,0901.767 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
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Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: Broad-Bottom Drones storming the Hive, - Wasps, hornets, & bumble bees, joining in the attack.- |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7639 |
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Museum number: 1868,0808.5817 |
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Production date: 1789 |
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Museum number: 1868,0808.7431 |
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Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Title: Le Diable-Boiteux,-or- The Devil upon two sticks, conveying John Bull to the land of promise. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7414 |
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Production place: Published in:London (England)

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Museum number: 1854,0812.196 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Keyse SherwinPrint made by:Robert Wilkinson |
Production date: 1783 |
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print; satirical print

Title: - Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo - Virgil, Geor: - |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13696 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1810 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Cabinetical Balance. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7418 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A scene in the forty thievs. Performing at the Theatre Royal. |
Museum number: J,3.61 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Triumph of Quassia. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.155 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayAfter:James Gillray |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion,-or-Forcible reasons for negociating a Regicide Peace. Vide |
Museum number: 1851,0901.823 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Political Mathematician's, shaking the broad bottom'd hemispheres;- |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7524 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A great Stream from a Pretty-Fountain;-or-John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes:-cormorants fi |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1199 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The prince of Whales or the fisherman at anchor. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12667 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:M Jones |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A great Stream from a Pretty-Fountain;-or-John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes:-cormorants fi |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1200 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A tub for the Whale!. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1193 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Pillar of the Constitution. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7570 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Ins and Outs; or, princely Consistency. |
Museum number: 2015,7032.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:John Johnston |
Production date: 1813 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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