George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham

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George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham.
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George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham KG (born June 17, 1753 in London , † February 11, 1813 at Stowe House , Buckinghamshire ) was a British nobleman and politician.

family

He was born as George Grenville into a politically very active and prominent family. He was the son of the future British Prime Minister George Grenville and his wife Elizabeth Wyndham, a daughter of the Tory politician Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet . His brother William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville , also became Prime Minister in 1806. Another brother, Thomas Grenville , was First Lord of the Admiralty . His aunt, Hester Grenville, was the wife of William Pitt the Elder , and thus he was a cousin of William Pitt the Younger . His uncle Richard Grenville, 2nd Earl Temple, was Secretary of the Navy and Keeper of the Lord Seal . George followed this in 1779 as 3rd Earl Temple and 4th Viscount Cobham .

George married Mary Elizabeth Nugent, 1st Baroness Nugent of Carlanstown († 1812), daughter and heiress of Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, in London in 1775 . With a royal license he changed his family name from Grenville to Nugent-Temple-Grenville in 1779 . With his wife he had the following children:

Stowe Manuscripts Collection

He started a collection of historical manuscripts called the Stowe Manuscripts Collection at his Stowe House estate . In 1883 this collection, including the 8th century Sacramentary Stowe Missal , was purchased by the state and given to the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin (catalog number MS D II 3).

Career

George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham ( William Beechey )

After studying at the University of Oxford , Grenville was from 1774 to 1779 as Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire Whig MP in the House of Commons . He left the House of Commons in 1779 when he inherited the title of his uncle when he died and was given a seat in the House of Lords . From 1782 to 1812 Nugent-Temple-Grenville was Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, from 1782–1783 and 1787–1789 also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . He was the first Grand Master of the Order of Saint Patrick and, in 1783, Secretary of State for four days (December 19 to December 23) . In 1782 he became a member of the Privy Council and in 1786 as a Knight Companion in the Order of the Garter.

In 1784 Nugent-Temple-Grenville was made Marquess of Buckingham and in 1788 succeeded his father-in-law as 2nd Earl Nugent . He died at the age of 59 and is buried in Wotton , Buckinghamshire.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frederick M. Powicke, Edmund B. Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Royal Historical Society, London 1961, p. 166.
  2. ↑ Frederick M. Powicke, Edmund B. Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Royal Historical Society, London 1961, p. 116.
  3. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 48.
predecessor Office successor
Richard Grenville Earl Temple
1779-1813 		Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville
New title created Marquess of Buckingham
1784-1813 		Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville
Robert Craggs-Nugent Earl Nugent
1788-1813 		Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1782–1783 		Robert Henley
Frederick North Home Secretary
1783 		Thomas Townshend
Charles Manners Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1787–1798 		John Fane
personal data
SURNAME Nugent-Temple-Grenville, George, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nugent-Temple-Grenville, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1813
Place of death on Stowe House , Buckinghamshire