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GRENVILLE
(1st Baron, William Wyndham, 1759-1834, Speaker 1789, Prime Minister 1806-1807, from 1790 1st Baron)
Autograph Letter signed to an unnamed correspondent
telling him that he is going out of town tomorrow, but if you could make it convenient to yourself to call here tomorrow between eleven & twelve (as soon after eleven as you can) I should be particularly desirous of having the pleasure to see you..., 1 side 8vo., Camelford House, 12th April
Item Date: 1802
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Background
Grenville was a British Tory politician who served as Prime Minister 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. His political career was ended by a stroke in 1823. He also served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1810 until his death in 1834.
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