Henry Grenville

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Henry Grenville (1717 - 1784) was an English diplomat.

Grenville was born into a family of politicians, one of his elder brothers was Earl Temple, another a government minister, another was Lord of Trade and Cofferer of the Household, while his nephew George Grenville rose to become Chancellor of the Exchequer of William Pitt and then Prime Minister himself 1763-1765.

Henry Grenville was governor of Barbados from 1746 and English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople from 1762 to 1765, during the reign of Sultan Mustafa III.

He returned to England in 1765 to become Commissioner of Customs before retiring to Bath, where he died in 1784.

His daughter Louisa married the statesman and scientist Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope.

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  • Turkey: Its History and Progress - the journals and correspondence of Sir James Porter - London, Hurst and Blackett, 1854
  • A History of the Levant Company - Alfred Wood
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