Pascoe Grenfell, MP

GRENFELL, PASCOE (1761-1838), politician, was born at Marazion in Cornwall, and baptised at St. Hilary Church 24 Sept. 1761. His father, Pascoe Grenfell, born in 1729, after acting as a merchant in London, became commissary to the States of Holland, and died at Marazion 27 May 1810, having married Mary, third child of' Wllliam Tremenheere, attorney, Penzance. The son went to the grammar school at Truro in 1777,where he was contemporary with Richard Polwhele, the historian and Dr John Cole, rector of Exeter College, Oxford. Afterwards proceeding to London he entered into business with his father and uncle, who were merchants and large dealers in tin and copper ores. In course of time he connected himself with Thomas Williams of Temple House, Great Marlow, then occupied with the development of the industries of Anglesey and Cornwall, and the largest manufacturer in the products of those districts in the kingdom. Grenfell soon became principal managing partner of these concerns, and having purchased Taplow House as a residence, was chosen parliamentary representative residence for Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire on the death of Williams in1802, for which place he sat from 14 Dec. 1802 to 29 Feb. 1820. He represented Penryn in Cornwall from 9 March 1820 to 2 June 1826. In parliament he was a zealous supporter of William Wilberforce in the debates on slavery, a vigilant observer of the actions of the Bank of England, and a great authority on finance. On the latter subject he made many speeches, two of which he published in 1816, and it was chiefly through his efforts that the periodical publication of the accounts of the bank was commenced (Hansard, vols. xxii. xxx-xxxvii.) He was governor of the Royal Exchange Insurance Company, and a commissioner of the lieutenancy for London. He died at 38 Belgrave Square, London, 23 Jan. 1838. He married, first, his cousin, Charlotte Granville, who died in 1790, and secondly, on 16 Jan. 1798, Georgiana St. Leger, seventh and youngest daughter of St. Leger St. Leger, first viscount Doneraile. She died 12 May 1818.

[Private information; Gent. Mag. April 1838, p. 429; D.Gilbert's Cornwall, ii. 216; Polwhele's Reminiscences (1836), i. 12, 110; Lipscombe's Buckinghamshire, i; 304; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub. pp. 189, 1205; Duke of Buckingham's Memoirs of Court of George 1V (1859), i. 282-3] G.C.B.

Text reproduced from the Dictionary of National Biography, Earliest Times to 1900 Vol. V111, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, by permission of Oxford University Press.

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Pascoe Grenfell was born on 3 September 1761.1 He was the son of Pascoe Grenfell and Mary Tremenheere.1 He married, firstly, Charlotte Grenfell on 26 August 1786.1 He died on 23 January 1838 at age 76.1
Pascoe Grenfell held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Marlow.1 He graduated with a Doctor of Civil Laws (D.C.L.).1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Penrhyn.1 He lived at Taplow Court, England.1 He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.2
Child of Pascoe Grenfell and Charlotte Grenfell

Charles Pascoe Grenfell+ b. 4 Apr 1790, d. 21 Mar 1867.1

Children of Pascoe Grenfell

Marianne Grenfell+ d. 30 Mar 1892

Emily Charlotte Grenfell+ d. 19 Dec 1875.3

Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell+ b. 5 Nov 1798, d. 28 Mar 1879.4

Citations

[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 102. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

[S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995). Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography.

[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage, page 174.

[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1658. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

• Wikipedia contributors. "Pascoe Grenfell." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 693