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Richard Grenville-Temple, 1st Earl Temple

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Also known as: Richard Grenville, Richard Grenville-Temple, 1st Earl Temple, Viscount Cobham, Baron Cobham
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Original name:
Richard Grenville
Born:
Sept. 26, 1711, London, Eng.
Died:
Sept. 12, 1779, Stowe, near Buckingham, Buckinghamshire (aged 67)

Richard Grenville-Temple, 1st Earl Temple (born Sept. 26, 1711, London, Eng.—died Sept. 12, 1779, Stowe, near Buckingham, Buckinghamshire) was an English statesman, the brother-in-law of William Pitt, under whom he served as the first lord of the Admiralty. The eldest son of Richard Grenville (d. 1727) and Hester, afterward Countess Temple, he was educated at Eton and was member of Parliament from 1734 to 1752. In 1752 he inherited his mother’s title together with the estates of Stowe and Wotton and took his mother’s maiden name of Temple in addition to his own surname of Grenville. From the time of ...(100 of 320 words)

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