Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Grenville, Richard (2nd), Earl Temple

by Joseph Foster

Grenville, Richard (2nd), Earl Temple; created D.C.L. 4 July, 1771, K.G. 1760, M.P. Buckingham 1734-41, 1747-52, Bucks 1741-7, lord keeper 1757-61, P.C. 1756, assumed the additional final surname of Temple in 1752 (son of Richard Grenville, by Hester Countess Temple in her own right), died 11 Sep., 1779. See Foster's Peerage, D. Buckingham.