George Grenville was born in 1712. Grenville began his education at Eton and graduated onto Oxford to study law. He was called to the bar in 1735 and decided to turn his ambitions to politics by running for MP and winning a seat in 1741. He climbed through the ranks and positions of the Government and the Whig party until in 1744 he was appointed Lord of the Admiralty and then under the Newcastle administration he was made Treasurer of the Navy. Like most Whig’s of this age, he was closely associated with William Pitt the elder who was also his brother in law. He did however become fairly critical of Newcastle administration and in 1755, he was dismissed form his offices.

With the resurgence of Pitts’ influence in 1757, Grenville was once more brought into government and was put to work. When Pitt resigned in 1761, Grenville stayed on and through hard work achieved the position of First Lord of the Admiralty. By 1763 he had advanced to the position of the First Lord of the Treasury where he quickly began to work on restoring Britain's finances to a  respectable   position after they had been drained and stressed by the demands of the 7 years war with France.

He was then chosen by the Whigs as Prime Minister and worked hard restore faith in, and support for the government. He felt that the costs of the 7 years war must somehow be borne partially by the colonists who had been such a drain on the resources and materials which had gone in to winning the war.  

Accordingly had came up with the Stamp Tax in 1765 which was really a stamp which proved that custom or import duties had actually been paid on the value of the product it was covering.  The Stamp Act was one of the main actions which started the American Colonies down the path which eventually led to their declaration of independence from England.

George III was not a big supported of Grenville’s who George found to be tedious &didactic. George decided to force him form office in 1765 and had him replaced with Lord Rockingham. This brought Grenville back into the circle of Pitt’s allies and in opposition to Grafton. In 1770, Grenville was instrumental in the creation of, presentation to and passing by Parliament of an Election Act which reformed the procedures of elections for the House of Commons.

He died later that year and luckily for him did not live to see the eruption of the revolution of the colonies in America.