William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 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.
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Lord Grenville by Gainsborough Dupont, c. 1790
Lord Grenville as Chancellor of Oxford, by William Owen, c. 1809-25
A caricature of Saartjie Baartman, Lord Grenville, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan by William Heath
Anne Pitt as Hebe by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1792. Grenville's wife painted just before their marriageAwards 1
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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 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. However, his government failed to either make peace with France or to accomplish Catholic emancipation and it was dismissed in the same year.
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