HMS Grenville, was a schooner (later re-rigged as a brig) built in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and originally named Sally. The ship was purchased and renamed...

Romney R. (1970). "Grenville, Thomas (1719-47)". In Sedgwick, R. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Boydell and Brewer...

Years' War. Pitt married Lady Hester Grenville (1720–1803), daughter of the 1st Countess Temple, on 16 November 1754 by Francis Ayscough under special licence...

pennant in the fifth-rate HMS Penzance in February 1752. He went on to be treasurer of Greenwich Hospital in February 1754 and Comptroller of the Navy...

Lestock. He was moved to HMS Sandwich in March 1745, and shortly thereafter to HMS Ruby. On 11 April 1746 Ruby, with HMS Defiance and HMS Salisbury, was dispatched...

Newcastle, but later joined William Pitt the Elder in opposition to George Grenville. He held the offices of Clerk of the Household to the Prince of Wales...

(1762–1814), Captain Alexander Hood (1758–1798) and Captain Arthur Hood (1754–1776). The story of his entry into the navy is recounted by Edmund Lodge...

of the Admiralty under the Duke of Devonshire in 1757 and under George Grenville from 1763 to 1765. In 1752 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as...

fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...

paid". Sphinx was paid off at Spithead on 7 November 1754. Jervis was assigned to the 20-gun HMS Seaford in December of the same year, and then from the...