Download or read book A Letter to the Right Honourable George Grenville Occasioned by the Speech He Made in the House of Commons on the Motion for Expelling Mr Wilkes Friday February 3 1769 To which is Added a Letter on the Public Conduct of Mr Wilkes First Published November 1 1768 With an Appendix written by John Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to the Right Hon George Grenville written by John Almon and published by London : Printed for J. Williams. This book was released on 1763 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The budget Inscribed to the man i e George Grenville who thinks himself minister The third edition By David Hartley written by David Hartley and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grenvillites and the British Press written by Rory T. Cornish and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The administration of George Grenville, 1763-1765, continues to divide historians. The passage of his American Stamp Act was widely debated by his contemporaries, damned by nineteenth-century Whig historians, and criticized by many historians well into the twentieth-century. The Stamp Act proved to be a political blunder which helped precipitate the outbreak of the American Revolution, and it is this, together with Grenville’s own forbidding personality, which has coloured how he has been largely remembered. Indeed, as one of his more recent biographers has noted, Grenville’s political career has been mainly judged on the comments made by his contemporary political enemies. Grenville, however, came to the premiership after spending twenty years in office and was perceived by many as an efficient and energetic minister; a capable and conscientious man who got things done. This present study adds to the recent reappraisal of Grenville’s career by investigating how he and his followers interacted with, and attempted to influence, the activities of the increasing political press during the first decade of the reign of George III. The Grenvillite pamphleteers were both well-organized and effective in their defence of their political patron, and the press activities of Thomas Whately, William Knox, Augustus Hervey, and Charles Lloyd are fully investigated here within the larger context of the political debates from 1763 to 1770. The impact East Indian issues, Irish affairs, John Wilkes, and American colonial problems had on shaping British public opinion are also examined. The book concludes, with regard to the American colonies at least, that the Grenvillite vision of empire was essentially traditional and mainstream. Stubborn, peevish, and argumentative he may have been, but Grenville was hardly the scourge of the American colonies as previously portrayed; nor was he the lone author of all the trouble between Britain and her American colonies as some American historians have suggested. George Grenville will remain a controversial figure in eighteenth-century British political history, but this study offers an examination of his political activities from a different perspective, and thus helps broaden our estimation of a minister who has been considered for too long as one of the worst prime ministers during the long reign of George III.
Download or read book The Grenville Papers written by Earl Richard Grenville-Temple Temple and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grenville Papers Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville Earl Temple and the Right Hon George Grenville Their Friends and Contemporaries Edited with Notes by W J Smith written by Earl Richard Grenville-Temple Temple and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester written by John Rylands Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives of Twelve Eminent Judges of the Last and of the Present Century written by William C. Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Great and Necessary Measure George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763 1765 written by John L. Bullion and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Grenville could have upheld Parliament's sovereignty, raised revenue, reduced smuggling, and asserted British control over the colonies by lowering the duty on foreign molasses imported into America from sixpence to one penny per gallon. But Grenville chose to set the duty at threepence instead, thereby irritating the mercantile community in the colonies. Would setting the molasses duty at one penny and collecting interest on paper currency have inspired Americans to resist parliamentary tyranny? Perhaps they would have; perhaps not. It does seem certain, though, that if resistance to these policies had occurred, it would have been a resistance shorn of substantial support from merchants, the agricultural elite of the northern colonies, and the planters of the South. In any crisis that might have arisen, Britain would have enjoyed far more support from these powerful groups in American society than she in fact did during the 1760s and 1770s. Thus, different decisions by Grenville might have totally prevented, considerably delayed, or essentially changed the American Revolution. How and why Grenville and his colleagues reached the fateful decisions are the questions examined in this book.
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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
