GRENVILLE, LORD. WILLIAM WYNDHAM GRENVILLE was born October 24, 1759. He was the third eon of the Right Hoo. George Grenville, a distinguished statesman, who was born in 1712 and died in 1770. He studied at Eton College and at Oxford University. He was elected a member of the House of Commons in 1782, and his eldest brother, the Marquis of Buckiogbam, having been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Mr. Grenville went with him to Dublin as his secretary. Not long afterwards Mr. Pitt gave him the office of Paymaster-General of the Army. In 1780 he was chosen Speaker of tho House of Commons. In 1790 he was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department, and was created Baron Grenville. In 1791 Lord Grenville became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and ,in all his speeches and proceedings displayed the most deter mined hostility to the French revolutionary government. In 1792 ho married the Hon. Anne Pitt, only daughter of Thomas, first Lord Camelford. He resigned office with Mr. Pitt in 1801, on the kiug's refusal to give his sanction to the measure for Roman Catholic Emancipation, and when Pitt took office, again in 1804, Lord Gren.
villa, Mr. Windham, and others, refused to form part of a ministry which did not include Mr. Fox. When the new ministry was formed after Mr. I'itt'a death, Lord Grenville became First Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. Fox Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Fox died iu 1806, and the Grenville ministry was dissolved in 1807. Lord Grenville's classical attainments were considerable, and iu 1809 he was chosen chancellor of the University of Oxford. From 1809 to 1815 Lord Grenville usually acted with Earl Grey. [GREY, Earts..] He was an opponent of parliamentary reform, and supported generally Mr. -Canning's administration. He was an at•Ie speaker, and had much inflame. In the house of Lords.. lie spent the latter years of his life in retirement at big mat, Dropmore Lodge, Buckinghamshire, where be died January 12, 1834, without issue, when the title became extiect.