NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Grenville, Thomas, 1755-1846 NRA: Grenville, Thomas (1755-1846) Statesman DNB: Grenville, Thomas (1755-1846), politician and book collector LBT ID: ThGrenv1846 VIAF ID: 2836004 LOC ID: no89013203 | B/BAP: 1755-12-31 DIED: 1846-12-17 |
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
The third son of George Grenville; he was a Whig MP and follower of Charles James Fox who
was first lord of the Admiralty (1806-07) and bequeathed a collection of 20,000 volumes to
the British Library. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Thomas Grenville: Thomas Grenville to Samuel Rogers, [March(?) 1812] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Thomas Grenville to Sydney Smith, 14 January 1837 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Thomas Grenville to Sydney Smith, 1842 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Thomas Grenville to William Jerdan, 27 December 1842 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) |