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William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

1759 - 1834

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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville has received more than 468,773 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville is the 9,491st most popular politician (up from 9,730th in 2019), the 1,913th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,070th in 2019) and the 294th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 9,491 out of 19,576. Before him are Gautamiputra Satakarni, Joseph Laniel, Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, Eudoxia Streshneva, Matsudaira Katamori, and José Bonifácio de Andrada. After him are Kurt Schmitt, Tryphaena, Festus Mogae, Huhanye, Jeanine Áñez, and Josef Krips.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 23. Before him are Jacques Cathelineau, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, François Devienne, Johann Christian Reil, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, and William Playfair. After him are Franz Krommer, James Edward Smith, Ferenc Kazinczy, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Matsudaira Sadanobu, and Jakob II Bernoulli. Among people deceased in 1834, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 24. Before him are Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, and Robert Morrison. After him are Giovanni Aldini, Elisa Radziwiłł, Gamzat-bek, Charles Lamb, Filip Višnjić, and Albrecht Wilhelm Roth.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 1,913 out of 8,785. Before him are Ronnie Biggs (1929), Julian Sands (1958), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), William Jackson Hooker (1785), William Kent (1685), and William Watson (1715). After him are Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Willibald (700), Gerald Gardner (1884), Mary Cartwright (1900), Arthur Tansley (1871), and Prince William of Gloucester (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 294. Before him are Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776), Ælle of Sussex (500), Catherine Ashton (1956), John Hume (1937), Rædwald of East Anglia (550), and Louise, Princess Royal (1867). After him are Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Cynric (450), John A. Macdonald (1815), Louisa Adams (1775), Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730), and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516).

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