Grenville
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Grenville may refer to: Grenville College, Bideford, North Devon, UK. A prestigious independent school.
[edit] People
- George
- George Grenville (1712-1770), Whig, Prime Minister of Great Britain
- George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) (2nd Earl Temple)
- George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent (1789-1850) GCMG, politician of Ireland
- John
- Richard
- Richard Grenville (or Greynvile) (1542-1591) Elizabethan sailor
- Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet (or Granville) (1600-1658)
- Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple (1711-1779)
- Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839)
- Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823-1889),
- Richard John Grenville Spring (b.1946]) Conservative Party Member of Parliament
- Thomas
- Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) Prime Minister of Great Britain
- William
- William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834) Prime Minister of Great Britain
- William Grenville Davis (b.1929) Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario, Canada
- Others
- Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (P. G. Wodehouse) (1881-1975) English comic novelist
- Grenville Turner (born 1936), pioneer of cosmochemistry
[edit] Places
- Canada
- Grenville County, Ontario
- Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario
- North Grenville, Ontario
- Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Quebec
- Grenada
- Grenville, Grenada
- United States
- Eastern North America
- Grenville orogeny, an ancient mountain range