
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (17 June 1753 – 11 February 1813) was a British aristocrat who served as a Whig MP for Buckinghamshire from 1774 to 1779, as Foreign Secretary from 19 to 23 December 1783 (succeeding Charles James Fox and preceding Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds), and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1782 to 1783 (succeeding William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and preceding Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northampton) and from 27 October 1787 to 24 October 1789 (succeeding Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland and preceding John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland).
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George Nugent-Temple-Grenville was the eldest son of Prime Minister George Grenville, and he was the nephew of another prime minister, William Grenville. He succeeded his father as Lord Temple in 1770 and was elected to Parliament in 1774, representing Buckinghamshire until 1779. Grenville briefly served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1782 to 1783, as Foreign and Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords in 1783, and again as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1787 to 1789. In 1784, he was created Marquess of Buckingham, and he supported the Act of Union of 1800 to incorporate Ireland into Great Britain to form the United Kingdom. He died in Stowe, Buckinghamshire in 1813 at the age of 59.