The third son of George Grenville; he was a Whig MP and follower of Charles James Fox who was first lord of the Admiralty (1806-07) and bequeathed a collection of 20,000 volumes to the British Library.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Grenville:

Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 8 November 1802 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Robert Southey to Richard Duppa, 27 March 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 8 November 1816 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Samuel Rogers to Lord Lansdowne, 20 April 1827 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Dowager Duchess of Sutherland to Samuel Rogers, 2 August [1835] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Thomas Grenville to William Jerdan, 27 December 1842 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53)

Sydney Smith to Georgiana Vernon Harcourt [Malcolm], 29 March 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers, 15 December 1847 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)