Temple, RICHARD GRENVILLE, EARL (1711-79), elder brother of George Grenville (q.v.), is mainly known as having from 1752 to 1761 held office under the elder Pitt, who had married his sister; as having bitterly opposed Bute; and as having broken with Pitt (Chatham) on the question of the Stamp Act in 1766, soon after which time he ceased to take any prominent part in public affairs.
Temple, RICHARD GRENVILLE, EARL
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 127
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