GRENVILLE (or GRANVILLE), SIR RICHARD, BART., cr. 163o (1600-1658), English Royalist, grandson of the famous seaman of the same name, entered the army, and served under Buckingham at Cadiz and in the La Rochelle expedition. He was ruined by lawsuits with his wife and her relations, and imprisoned. He escaped to Germany, returning to England to join the king's army against the Scots in 1633. From 164 r to 1643 he served in Ireland, but on his return to England was re arrested and forced to join the Parliamentary army. But he joined Charles at Oxford and served in the west of England. Many charges of abuse of power, misappropriation of war funds and insubordination (especially to Goring and Hopton) were made against him, and in Jan. 1646 he was arrested. He then went to Holland, and was with Charles II. in exile until he had to leave the court after bringing accusations against Edward Hyde, after wards earl of Clarendon. He died in 1658 and was buried at Ghent.
Grenville wrote a partisan account of affairs in the west of England —printed in T. Carte's Original Letters which Clarendon drew up an answer, the bulk being afterwards incorporated in his His tory. In 1654 Grenville wrote his Single Defence against all Aspersions of all Malignant Persons. This is printed in the Works of George Gran ville, Lord Lansdowne (1736) , where Lansdowne's Vindication of his kinsman, Sir Richard, against Clarendon's charges is also found. See also Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, edit. by W. D. Macray (Ox ford, 1888) ; and R. Granville, The King's General in the West (Igo8).