GRENVILLE, GEORGE (17I2-70), English statesman, second son of Richard Grenville and Hester Temple, afterwards Countess Temple, was born on Oct. 14, 1712, educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and called to the bar in 1735• He entered parliament in 1741 as member for Buckingham, and continued to represent that borough till his death. In December 1744 he became a lord of the admiralty in the Pelham adminis tration. He allied himself with his brother Richard and with William Pitt in forcing their chief to give them promotion by obstructing business. In June 1747 he became a lord of the treasury, and in 1754 treasurer of the navy and privy councillor. As treasurer of the navy in 1758 he introduced and carried a bill which established an improved system of paying the wages of seamen. He remained in office in T761, when his brother Lord Temple and his brother-in-law Pitt resigned upon the question of the war with Spain, and was leader of the House of Commons under the Bute administration. In May 1762 he was appointed secretary of state, and in October first lord of the admiralty; and in April 1763 he became first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer. His administration saw the prosecution of Wilkes and the passing of the American Stamp act, which led to the first symptoms of alienation between America and the mother country. Grenville was disliked by George III., and when the marquis of Rockingham was induced to form a ministry in July 1765, he was dismissed. He never again held office, and died on Nov. 13, 1 7 70.