Robert Fulke Greville
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Fulke Greville FRS MP (3 February 1751 – 27 April 1824) was a British Member of Parliament (MP) and courtier.
The son of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth Hamilton, and brother to Charles Francis Greville, he was educated at Edinburgh University. He was commissioned as a Cornet in the 10th Dragoons in 1768, and promoted to Lieutenant in 1772; he became a Captain in the 1st Foot Guards in 1775 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1777. He was Member of Parliament for Warwick from 1774 to 1780, supporting the Tory government of Lord North, and for New Windsor from 1796 to 1806. [1]
Greville served as Equerry to King George III from 1781 to 1797 and Groom of the Bedchamber from 1800 to 1818 (from 1812 at Windsor). His diaries give remarkable insight into the King's illness and recovery from porphyria. They also record the King's 1794 season at Weymouth in considerable detail. He hence appears as a character in the play The Madness of George III and its film adaptation, played in the latter by Rupert Graves. In 1794 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. [2]
On 19 October 1797, he married Louisa Murray, 2nd Countess of Mansfield and widow of David Murray. His son and namesake attempted to make improvements to the port of Milford Haven which his uncle, Charles Francis Greville, had founded.
References
- ↑ "GREVILLE, Hon. Robert Fulke (1751-1824), of Richmond Park, Surr.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
External links
- http://dukesofbuckingham.org/people/contemporaries/greville_diarists.htm
- Welsh Biography Online
- F. McKno Bladon (ed.), The Diaries of Colonel The Hon. Robert Fulke Greville, Equerry to His Majesty George III (London: The Bodley Head, 1930).
- Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790 (London: HMSO, 1964)
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Hon. Charles Greville Paul Methuen |
Member of Parliament for Warwick 1774–1780 With: Hon. Charles Greville |
Succeeded by Hon. Charles Greville Robert Ladbroke |
| Preceded by The Earl of Mornington William Grant |
Member of Parliament for New Windsor 1796–1800 With: Henry Isherwood 1796-1797 Sir William Johnston 1797-1800 |
Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain |
Member of Parliament for New Windsor 1801–1806 With: Sir William Johnston 1801-02 John Williams 1802-04 Arthur Vansittart 1804-06 |
Succeeded by Edward Disbrowe Richard Ramsbottom |