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Name
  
Bernard Grenville

Uncles
  
John St. Leger

Cousins
  
Lewis Stukley

Parents
  
Mary St Leger

Role
  
Politician


Bernard Grenville

Grandparents
  
John St. Leger, Katherine Neville

Aunts
  
Frances St. Leger, Eulalia St. Leger, Margaret St. Leger

Great-grandparents
  
George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, Lady Mary Stafford

Sir Bernard Grenville (1567-1636), was an English politician.

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Origins

He was the eldest surviving son of Richard Grenville (d.1591), lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall and of Buckland Abbey, Devon, whom he succeeded in 1591 when he was lost on the Revenge.

Career

He was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1596–97, and a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall in 1598. He was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles I in 1628. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Bodmin, Cornwall, in 1597.

Marriage & progeny

He married Elizabeth Bevill, only daughter and heiress of Phillip Bevill of Brinn and Killigarth, by whom he had four sons and a daughter, including:

  • Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643), a Royalist soldier in the Civil War, killed in action at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643. He served as MP for Cornwall 1621–1625 and 1640–42, and for Launceston 1625–1629 and 1640. He was the father of John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701).
  • Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet (1559-1658)

    • References

    Bernard Grenville Wikipedia
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