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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville Quotes

British Prime Minister, politician (1759-1834)

William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC PCi FRS (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister, his most significant achievement was the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. However, his government failed to either make peace with France or to accomplish Catholic emancipation and it was dismissed in the same year.

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Native Name: William Wyndham Grenville
Alternative Names: William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville • William Grenville • William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville • William Wyndham, Lord Grenville • Lord Grenville

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Similar: William Pitt the Younger 59.7% Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 59.0% Stanley Baldwin 58.0% William Ewart Gladstone 57.9% Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey 57.8% George III of Great Britain 57.7% George Washington 57.2% Charles James Fox 56.4% Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 56.3% David Lloyd George 55.7%
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