Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron,
1759–1834, British statesman; youngest son of George Grenville. He was foreign secretary in the ministry of his cousin William Pitt from 1791 to 1801. During the French Revolutionary Wars, Grenville led the British war party and favored Pitt's repressive internal measures. He was also a champion of free trade and of Catholic EmancipationCatholic Emancipation,term applied to the process by which Roman Catholics in the British Isles were relieved in the late 18th and early 19th cent. of civil disabilities.
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1806 he formed the "ministry of all the talents," which abolished (1807) the slave trade.