Charles Francis Greville

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles Francis Greville FRS (12 May 1749 1809), a younger son of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick, was a British antiquarian and collector. Though he lived on a stringent income of 500 a year, he managed to acquire antiquities from Gavin Hamilton in Rome and purchased through his uncle a genre piece by Annibale Carracci. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, his special interest was in minerals and precious stones, which were catalogued by the émigré Jacques Louis, comte de Bournon and were later purchased for the British Museum. When his father died in 1773 and his brother became Earl of Warwick, Charles Greville inherited his seat of Warwick in the House of Commons. Greville remained for years a very close friend of Sir Joseph Banks and, like him, a member of the Society of Dilettanti. He accompanied Sir Joseph at the organizing meeting in March 1804of the precursor to the Royal Horticultural Society, the Society for the Improvement of Horticulture.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131621925
• ISBN-10: 6131621926
• Artikelnr.: 29777809