George Grenville was Lord High Commissioner of Ionian Islands from 1832 to 1835. In November 1834, Michael J. Quin travelled to the Ionian Islands and briefly commented on a visit to Lord Nugent:

I paid my respects to the Lord High Commissioner (Lord Nugent), whom I was glad to find in excellent health and spirits. He desired that I should join his family circle at dinner, where I found that I had been one day too late to witness two of the most interesting spectacles that had been exhibited for many years in the Ionian Islands. The previous day had been celebrated by a species of tournament peculiar to the islands, in which some of the native young noblemen, and the officers of our garrison, clothed in splendid armour, had contended for prizes, the value of which must have been not a little augmented in the estimation of the victors when presented to them by the hand of Lady Nugent, whose personal accomplishments and exquisite literary taste have been rendered familiar to us all by more than one standard production in our language. The same evening a fancy ball took place at the palace, a spacious and very handsome edifice, well calculated for the display of every kind of hospitality; and I must say that I was for once disposed to bring my stars to account for depriving me of the pleasure, which I should have felt had I been in Corfu twenty-four hours sooner, when I heard of the assemblage of beauty, and of gay and various costumes which had graced the rooms on that occasion.

Michael J. Quin 1836. A Steam Voyage Down the Danube. with Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, Turkey, &c. 3rd edition. Richard Bentley, London. Pages 245–46.

While in the Ionians, he obtained a cast of the " “Winged Victory stooping to tie her sandal,” which he presented to his brother, the first Duke.