Grenville, William Wyndham (1759–1834)
British Whig politician, home secretary from 1791, foreign secretary from 1794; he resigned along with Prime Minister Pitt the Younger in 1801 over George III's refusal to assent to Catholic emancipation. He headed the ‘All the Talents’ coalition of 1806–07 that abolished the slave trade.
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