Grenville Was Destined To Practice Law
One of the interesting facts about George Grenville, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, is that he was destined to practice law. George Grenville, one of Richard Grenville and Hester Temple's five children, was born in Wotton House on October 14, 1712. Grenville, an MP for Buckingham who first entered Parliament in 1741, was born into a prominent political family. He became known as one of Lord Cobham's Cobham's Cubs, a group of youthful Parliamentarians.
His surname was frequently spelled "Greenville" by his contemporaries, and this may have been the standard pronunciation. His parents had always wanted to raise him to be a lawyer. Grenville was therefore given the opportunity to attend Christ Church in Oxford and Eton College, respectively. He began his education at Eton in 1725 and continued it in 1729 at the Inner Temple, one of the prestigious legal schools in London. George Grenville finally graduated to the bar in 1736.
