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William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

1759 - 1834

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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister, his most significant achievement was the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. However, his government failed to either make peace with France or to accomplish Catholic emancipation and it was dismissed in the same year. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville is the 7,325th most popular politician (up from 9,490th in 2019), the 1,631st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,914th in 2019) and the 286th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 7,325 out of 19,576. Before him are Pierre d'Aubusson, Fujiwara no Kamatari, Anne Jules de Noailles, Tonyukuk, Gyeongsun of Silla, and Takeda Sōkaku. After him are John the Orphanotrophos, Isidor Straus, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir, and Ernesto Zedillo.

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Among people born in 1759, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 19. Before him are William Wilberforce, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Friedrich August Wolf, and Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg. After him are Jacques Cathelineau, Dean Mahomed, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, François Devienne, Johann Christian Reil, and Matsudaira Sadanobu. Among people deceased in 1834, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 19. Before him are William Carey, Jacques Balmat, Husein Gradaščević, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, and William Wirt. After him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, David Douglas, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 1,631 out of 8,785. Before him are Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Neville Marriner (1924), George Albert Smith (1864), Simon Stock (1164), Annie Chapman (1841), and Mike Hailwood (1940). After him are Peter Shaffer (1926), Dave Sexton (1930), George Grenville (1712), George Bentham (1800), Frances Shand Kydd (1936), and Anthony Trollope (1815).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 286. Before him are Rishi Sunak (1980), David Trimble (1944), Denis Thatcher (1915), Chris Patten (1944), James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612), and Betty Boothroyd (1929). After him are George Grenville (1712), Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836), Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), Spencer Perceval (1762), Fletcher Christian (1764), and Joan of Kent (1328).

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