Fulke Greville (1717–1806) of Wilbury House, Newton Toney, Wiltshire, England, was an English landowner and diplomat.
He was the son of Algernon Greville and Mary Somerset, daughter and coheiress of Lord Arthur Somerset, the youngest son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. His father was a son of Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke.[1] For a time around 1731 he was educated as a gentleman commoner at Winchester College.[2]
His wife was the poet Frances Greville,[3] daughter and coheir of James Macartney, Irish MP for Longford and Granard and his wife Catherine Coote. They eloped on 26 January 1748. They had several children, including:
He was the author of Maxims Characters and Reflections (1756).
Further readingEdit
Lancaster, Geoffrey (2015). The First Fleet Piano: Volume One: A Musician's View. ANU E Press. p. 29. ISBN978-1-922144-65-2. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
^Giddlings, Tim (July 2019). "Gentlemen Commoners, 1730s". In Foster, Richard (ed.). 50 Treasures from Winchester College. SCALA. p. 104. ISBN9781785512209.
^ abBetty Rizzo, ‘Greville , Frances (1727?–1789)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008) [1], accessed 15 September 2008.
^"Extracts from The Gentleman's Magazine relating to Wiltshire, volume XIV, 1744". Wiltshire Notes and Queries: 364. Feb.—His Majesty in Council appointed Fulk Greville, of Newton Toney, Esq., Sheriff of Wilts.
^"No. 10576". The London Gazette. 23 November 1765. p. 1. Whitehall November 23. The King has been pleased to appoint, ... Fulk Greville, Esq; Envoy Extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria, and Minister to the Diet at Ratisbon.
External linksEdit
Fulke Greville at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
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