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Charles Greville (other)
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Charles Greville may refer to: * Charles Francis Greville (1749–1809), British antiquarian, collector and Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick * Charles Greville (physician) (1695–1763), British physician * Charles Greville (1762–1832), MP for Petersfield * Charles John Greville, MP for Warwick * Charles Greville (diarist) (1794–1865), English diarist and amateur cricketer * Charles Greville, 3rd Baron Greville (1871–1952), Baron Greville * Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick (1911–1984), British peer * Charles Greville, Lord Brooke See also * * Greville (other) Greville or Gréville may refer to: Places *Gréville-Hague, in the Manche ''département'', France *Port Greville, Nova Scotia, Canada People First name *Greville Janner (1928–2015), British Labour Party politician and alleged child abuser * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Francis Greville
Charles Francis Greville PC FRS FRSE FLS FSA (12 May 1749 – 23 April 1809) was a British antiquarian, collector and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1790. Early life Greville was the second son of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton. George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, and Robert Fulke Greville were his brothers, and he had four sisters. He was brought up in the family home, Warwick Castle. His father had been created Earl Brooke three years before he was born and in 1759 had successfully petitioned to have the prestigious medieval title of a more senior extinct line of his family, Earl of Warwick, conferred on him as the senior male heir of the family and lieutenant of the county. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh from 1764 to 1767. Art collections ;Classical and renaissance artwork Greville lived most of his adult life on a rigid income of £500 a year, gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greville (physician)
Charles Greville (1695–1769) was a leading physician in Gloucester, England, for 50 years. He arrived in the city around 1720 and was one of the founders of the Gloucester Infirmary. He was physician to the Infirmary 1755–1763 and physician extraordinary 1766–69. Greville was the son of Charles Greville, apothecary of Bristol, and the grandson of Giles Greville of Charlton Kings Charlton Kings is a contiguous village adjoining Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. The area constitutes a civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial d .... Greville's will is held at the Bristol Record Office. References External links * * 1695 births 1763 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors People from Gloucester {{England-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greville (1762–1832)
Charles Greville (2 November 1762 – 26 August 1832) was a British politician and public official. Greville was the fifth child and fourth son of Fulke Greville and his wife, Frances (née Macartney). His parents lived at Wilbury House, Newton Tony, Wiltshire. He was educated at Westminster School. From 1778 to 1796, he was an officer in various Regiments of Foot. On 31 March 1793, he married Lady Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck, the third child and first daughter of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. They had four children: *Harriet Catherine Greville, who married Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere * Charles Greville,Christopher Hibbert (2004"Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794–1865)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press. diarist * Algernon Frederick Greville, Private Secretary to the Duke of Wellington *Henry William Greville, Private Secretary to Lord Francis Egerton He served as the Member of Parliament for Petersfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles John Greville
Charles John Greville (died 1836) was a British politician. The younger brother of the Earl of Warwick, Greville served in the British Army, becoming a major-general. He was also appointed as a colonel in the 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot. At the 1812 UK general election, Greville was elected for the Tories in Warwick, serving until 1831. He stood again at the 1832 UK general election, winning the seat, but was unseated on petition. He was re-elected at the 1835 UK general election, this time for the new Conservative Party, but stood down in 1836 by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds The Chiltern Hundreds is an ancient administrative area in Buckinghamshire, England, composed of three " hundreds" and lying partially within the Chiltern Hills. "Taking the Chiltern Hundreds" refers to one of the legal fictions used to effect .... He died later in the year. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Greville, Charles John Year of birth missing 1836 deaths Tory MPs (pre-1834) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick (UK Parliament Constituency)
Warwick was a parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Warwick, within the larger Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency), Warwickshire constituency of England. It returned two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1295 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency was abolished for the 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new single-member constituency of Warwick and Leamington (UK Parliament constituency), Warwick and Leamington. Members of Parliament MPs 1295–1640 MPs 1640–1885 Election results Elections in the 1830s Greville's election was later declared void but no writ was issued for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greville (diarist)
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (2 April 1794 – 17 January 1865) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827. His father Charles Greville was a second cousin of the 1st Earl of Warwick, and his mother was Lady Charlotte Bentinck, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland (former leader of the Whig party and prime minister). Early life Much of Greville's childhood was spent at his maternal grandfather's house at Bulstrode. He was one of the Pages of Honour to George III, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; but he left the university early, having been appointed private secretary to Earl Bathurst before he was twenty.Christopher Hibbert (2004"Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794–1865)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press. The interest of the Duke of Portland had secured for him the secretaryship of the island of Jamaica, which was a sinecure A sinecure ( or ; from the Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greville, 3rd Baron Greville
Charles Beresford Fulke Greville, 3rd Baron Greville (3 March 1871 – 14 May 1952) was a British soldier and aristocrat. Early life He was the second son of four children born to the writer Lady Beatrice Violet Graham and the politician Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville, who married in 1863. His older brother, Ronald Greville, died in 1908. His younger sisters were Hon. Camilla Dagmar Violet Greville (wife of Hon. Alistair George Hay, son of the Earl of Kinnoull) and Hon. Lilian Veronique Greville (wife of Cmdr. Herbert Victor Creer). His father was a Liberal MP for Westmeath who was appointed a Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1869 and, from 1873 to 1874, served as a Lord of the Treasury in Gladstone's government. His paternal grandparents were Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville and his wife, Lady Rosa Nugent (the only daughter and heir of the George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath). His maternal grandparents were James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greville, 7th Earl Of Warwick
Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, 7th Earl Brooke (4 March 1911 – 20 January 1984), was a British peer and the last Earl of Warwick to live at the family seat Warwick Castle before its sale in 1978. He became the first British aristocrat to star in a Hollywood movie, and was later nicknamed the Duke of Hollywood by the local press. Early life Charles Guy Fulke Greville was born at 13a Lower Grosvenor Place West, London on 4 March 1911. He was the eldest son of Leopold Greville, 6th Earl of Warwick (1882–1928) and his wife Elfrida Marjorie Eden (1887–1943), the only daughter of Sir William Eden, 7th Baronet. "Fulkie", as he was known to intimates, had two younger brothers, Richard Francis Maynard Greville, a Governor of University College Hospital, and John Ambrose Henry Greville, who was killed in action in 1942 during World War II. His paternal grandparents were Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick and his wife, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greville, Lord Brooke
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
