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Venn: Adm. Fell.-Com. at Trinity, Oct. 23, 1807. 3rd s. of Richard [Aldworth] Griffin-Neville (1819) (2nd Baron Braybrooke) (and Catherine, dau. of George Grenville). [B. Aug. 17, 1789.] School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1807; M.A. 1810. Master of Magdalene, 1813-53. Vice-Chancellor, 1818-19. R. of Hawarden, Flintshire, 1814-34. Dean of Windsor, 1846. Chaplain to the Queen. Co-discoverer, with his brother, Lord Braybrooke, of Samuel Pepys' diaries. In 1825 inherited from his uncle, Thomas Grenville, the mansion and estate of Butleigh Court, Somerset, and assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Grenville, July 27, 1825. Married Charlotte, dau. of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth. Died June 10, 1854, at Butleigh Court. Father of Ralph (1834), Seymour (1841), William F. (1836) and William W. (1852); brother of Richard (1811). (Eton Sch. Lists; Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.)