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George Grenville

1712 - 1770

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George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, during the early reign of the young George III. He served for only two years (1763-1765), and attempted to solve the problem of the massive debt resulting from the Seven Years' War. He instituted a series of measures to increase revenue to the crown, including new taxes and enforcement of collection, and sought to bring the North American colonies under tighter crown control. Born into an influential political family, Grenville first entered Parliament in 1741 as an MP for Buckingham. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Grenville has received more than 603,500 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). George Grenville is the 8,318th most popular politician (up from 8,701st in 2019), the 1,645th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,838th in 2019) and the 256th most popular British Politician.

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  • 55.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George Grenville ranks 8,318 out of 19,576. Before him are Lakhdar Brahimi, Levan Tediashvili, Serdar Berdimuhamedow, Nicole Fontaine, József Antall, and Muhammad Shah. After him are Bodawpaya, Pyotr Chaadayev, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, Duke Philipp of Württemberg, Félix Malloum, and William II, Duke of Apulia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, George Grenville ranks 15. Before him are Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Tokugawa Ieshige, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Francesco Algarotti, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and Toriyama Sekien. After him are Johann Samuel König, Claude Bourgelat, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, and Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1770, George Grenville ranks 10. Before him are Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Suzuki Harunobu, Thomas Chatterton, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, and Jean-Antoine Nollet. After him are Martin van Meytens, George Whitefield, James Stirling, Carl Gustaf Tessin, Francesco Araja, and Georg Dionysius Ehret.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Grenville ranks 1,645 out of 8,785. Before him are K. K. Downing (1951), David Yates (1963), Matthew Arnold (1822), Peter Barlow (1776), John Muir (1838), and John Collier (1850). After him are Samuel Wallis (1728), Edward Fox (1937), Rebecca West (1892), Sebastian Coe (1956), Kate Moss (1974), and Thomas Sydenham (1624).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, George Grenville ranks 256. Before him are Lord William Bentinck (1774), Gytha of Wessex (1053), William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), Jeffrey Archer (1940), and Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723). After him are Margaret Bondfield (1873), William Hamilton (1730), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), David Trimble (1944), Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), and Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766).

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