The rise and fall of the Grenvilles : dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921

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The rise and fall of the Grenvilles : dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921

John Beckett

Manchester University Press, c1994

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  • : pbk

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Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-298) and index

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This book chronicles the rags-to-riches tale of the Grenvilles, who rose from the gentry to become dukes, making a fortune and building Stowe, one of England's great country houses, in the process - only to come close to bankruptcy by 1850 and eventually lose their title. John Beckett asks how this happened. He traces the rise of the family from their modest Buckinghamshire background in 1710 through a series of highly lucrative marriages, an earldom, a marquessate, a dukedom and, by 1822, a major landed estate spread across southern England and Ireland. He explores the disastrous profligacy of the first two Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos between 1813 and 1847, which nearly led to the family becoming the first landless dukes by the 1850s. He explains how the hardworking third duke managed to rescue a substantial portion of the estates, though the Grenvilles still failed to survive the cold winds of change which brought the downfall of so many landed families after the First World War. Today their showpiece house, Stowe, is a public school, and the dukedom is no more.

目次

  • Part 1 The Grenvilles and the temples: the Grenvilles of Wotton
  • the Temples of Stow
  • Viscount Cobham
  • Cobham and his heirs. Part 2 Richard, Earl Temple, and the building of the family fortunes: Richard Grenville's apprenticeship - Wotton 1727-49
  • earldom and garter
  • building the estate
  • Temple's legacy. Part 3 The marquessate and the Nugent marriage: early years and marriage
  • Ireland and the marquessate
  • building the estate
  • getting and spending
  • the achievement. Part 4 The dukedom and the Chandos marriage: the first duke
  • the Chandos marriage
  • the dukedom and politics
  • the Marquess of Chandos
  • Buckingham, the collector. Part 5 The Grenville fortunes, 1813-1833: the Chandos inheritance
  • the estates in 1815
  • the Duke's early years
  • the spiral of debt
  • opening the can of worms
  • the Marquess of Chandos's debts
  • the Duke's return
  • the crisis of 1832. Part 6 The estate under the trust 1833-39: Chandos and the trustees
  • the trust in difficulties
  • the crisis of 1835
  • the Duke's final years. Part 7 The second Duke and the collapse of the family fortunes, 1839-47: the financial background
  • the Marquess of Chandos comes of age
  • Queen Victoria at Stowe
  • the resettlement of 1845. Part 8 The sale of Stowe, 1847-8: the family in crisis
  • the refereeship
  • the Stowe sale. Part 9 The dispersal of the estates, 1848-61: the Duke and Duchess
  • the Marquess of Chandos and business
  • the second Duke's last years. Part 10 The passing of the Grenvilles: the estate
  • the end of the dukedom
  • the passing of Stowe. The Grenville family titles.

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