Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: George Nugent Grenville (Baron Nugent)

George Grenville, later Baron Nugent of Carlanstown, Westmeath, Ireland. Younger son of Nugent Buckingham and Mary Nugent. See family tree.

George was a literate man, publishing on a wide range of subjects including history, travel, politics and religion.

In private life Nugent was highly esteemed. He delighted in the society of literary man, and had a considerable fund of knowledge derived both from books and from a knowledge of the world. [DNB]

He was created Baron Nugent in March 1813 on the death of his mother. He was an extreme Whig in politics, opposing internment of remand prisoners in prisons and advocating abolition of capital punishment.

He inherited Gosfield from his father but never used it, perhaps because he was in financial difficulties by the 1820s. He lived at Lilies at Weedon, near Aylesbury. He was a member of Brooks's Club.

In 1813, he married Anne Lucy Poulett.

Age	Year	Date	Event
0	1788	30 December	Birth
15	1804	25 April	Matriculated at Brasenose College
22	1810	6 July	Awarded DCL, Oxford
	1810	January	MP for Buckingham until 1812
24	1812		Returned MP for Aylesbury for 7 parliaments
25	1813	6 March	Succeeded to title, Baron Nugent, on the death of his mother
25	1813	6 September	Married Anne Lucy, 2nd daughter of Hon Vere Poulett; no surviving children
38	1826	January	First president of the Buckinghamshire Anti-Slavery Society
42	1830	November	Appointed Lord of Treasury
43	1831		Returned to Aylesbury again until dissolution of 1832
44	1832	August	Resigns as Lord of Treasury
44	1832	April	Appointed Lord High Commissioner of Ionian Islands, Greece until 1835; rewarded with Cross of St Michael and St George
49	1837		Defeated standing for Aylesbury
51	1839		Defeated standing for Aylesbury
55	1843		Defeated standing for Aylesbury
59	1847		Returned for Aylesbury
	1850	26 November	Died in Buckinghamshire (DNB & Burkes Peerage; Foster gives 27 November)

Further Information

The Young Lord George
Marriage to Anne Lucy Poulett
His Political Career

Publications

Grenville, George Nugent 1812. 'Portugal. A poem in two parts.' Quarterly Review 7, 151.

Grenville, George Nugent 1826. A plain statement in support of the political claims of the Roman Catholics: in a letter to the Rev. Sir George Lee, bart. by Lord Nugent, member of Parliament for Aylesbury. London : T. Hookham.

Grenville, George Nugent 1846. Lands, classical and sacred. 2 volumes. London : Charles Knight & Co.

Portraits

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	Lord George Grenville by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
	Lord George Grenville by Hoppner

Sources

DNB; Foster's Alumni; Sack.