Son of George Nugent Grenville, first marquess of Buckingham; he was MP, lord of the Treasury, and author of Portugal, a Poem, in Two Parts (1812) and Some Memorials of John Hampden, his Party and his Times (1831). He was remarkable for his corpulence.

REFERENCES TO George Nugent Grenville, second baron Nugent:

Lady Morgan to Alicia Le Fanu, 7 June 1812 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 June 1825 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 15 October 1830 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)

Isaac D’Israeli to Samuel Rogers, [February, 1832] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 15 April 1832 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to John Rickman, 19 August 1832 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 23 October 1845 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Douglas Jerrold to Charles Cowden Clarke, 2 December 1850 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878)