# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-granville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:15:55.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-granville"
name: "George Granville"
slug: "george-granville"
description: "George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne PC, of Stowe, Cornwall, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1702 until 1712, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lansdown and sat in the House of Lords. He was Secretary at War during the Harley ministry from 1710 to 1712. He was also a noted poet and made a name for himself with verses composed on the visit of Mary of Modena, then Duchess of York, while he was at Cambridge in 1677. He was also a playwright, following in the style of John Dryden."
tagline: "1st Baron Lansdowne"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Granville_H._Walpole_portrait.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1666-03-09"
deathDate: "1735-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.51
  momentum:             1.359516616314199
  historical:           7.680202666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Granville"
    title: "George Granville"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Granville"
    title: "George Granville"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョージ・グランヴィル (初代ランズダウン男爵)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Granville"
    title: "George Granville"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Granville%2C_1st_Baron_Lansdowne"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump