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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 served as 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 437,883 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville is the 9,757th most popular politician (down from 9,135th in 2019), the 2,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,026th in 2019) and the 323rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 9,757 out of 15,577. Before him are Theagenes of Megara, Indalecio Prieto, Vera Kholodnaya, Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, and Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him are Æthelfrith, R. Budd Dwyer, Son Ngoc Thanh, Johannes Vares, Philipp von Boeselager, and Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 24. Before him are Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, James Edward Smith, François Devienne, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Christian Reil, and Franz Krommer. After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, William Playfair, Jakob II Bernoulli, Ferenc Kazinczy, and Matsudaira Sadanobu. Among people deceased in 1834, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 24. Before him are Giovanni Aldini, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Robert Morrison, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. After him are Charles Lamb, Gamzat-bek, Thomas Telford, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Joseph Bové, and Pierre Adet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 2,075 out of 7,765. Before him are Barbara Hepworth (1903), Angela Carter (1940), William Hudson (1730), Peter Crouch (1981), Samuel Smiles (1812), and Anna Sewell (1820). After him are Æthelfrith (600), Susannah York (1939), Basil Bernstein (1924), James Harrington (1611), Kelly Brook (1979), and Mark Thatcher (1953).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ranks 323. Before him are Frederick Abberline (1843), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), John Profumo (1915), Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777), Charlie Whiting (1952), and Andrew Bertie (1929). After him are Æthelfrith (600), James Harrington (1611), Cynewulf of Wessex (750), Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Joseph Lancaster (1778), and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886).

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