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iii his dome-tic interior* with figures, and especially 

 in -ueh fancy studies of girls >** 'Tim Broken 



:HT ' in tin- Loii\re, tin 1 ' Innocence ' and ' Girl 



with 1 >oves' iii Sir Kichard Wallace's collection, 

 :iinl 'Girl with Dead Canary' in Scottish National 

 Gallery. See monograph hy Noriuand (1892). 



Circvill<', <'n \IM.I s C\\I.MIISII Fi i. M, \\iit.-i 



of memoir* nf his time, the eldest son of Charles 



die hy liis wife, Lady Charlotte Cavendish 



Beniinck, was horn in IT'.M. lit! was educated at 



a and at Christ Church, Oxford. Before ho 



tuentv he \\as appointed prh alt- secretary to 



Bathmst. In IS21 he became Clerk of 'the 



Council in Ordinary, an ollice which lie discharged 

 until 1860. During the lost twenty years of his 

 life he occupied a suite of rooms in the house of 

 Karl Cranvilh', in Bruton Street, and there he 

 died, 18th January isii.".. In advocacy of the com- 

 pletion of the measure of relief to the Catholics by 

 the payment of their clergy he wrote J'.sf n//</ 

 nt /'"//<// of Eiuilnnil tnimrdft Ir> /mid ( 184;")). 

 His position as Clerk of the Privy -council brought 

 him into intimate relations with the leaders of 

 hoth political parties, and gave him peculiar facili- 

 ties for studying court life from within advantages 

 which the shrewd intelligence and cultured ver- 

 satility of (ireville turned to the best account by 

 penning miscellaneous memoirs dealing alike with 



Eiihlic and private atl'airs, and containing many 

 vely, immediate .sketches of the distinguished 

 jiersonages of his time, political, social, and literary. 

 The lirst part of the Memoirs, covering the reigns of 

 George IV. and William IV., edited by Mr Reeve, 

 appeared in 1875. The second part, embracing the 

 period IS.S7 51, was published in 1885; and the 

 third, 1H.V2-60, in 1887. 



Greville, SIR FULKK. poet and friend of much 

 greater poets than himself, was horn of a good 

 Warwickshire family in 1554. He studied at Cam- 

 bridge, travelled abroad, made a figure at court, 

 wa> knighted in 1597, and created Lord Brooke in 

 Hi-Jo. He was murdered in an altercation with his 

 serving-man, .'JOlli September 1028. Several didactic 

 poems, more than a hundred sonnets, and two 

 tragedies were printed in 1633; his Life of Sir 

 1'hilii. Sidney in 1052. Grosart edited his works 

 (4 vois. INTO), and published a selection (The Friend 

 of Sir l>k,lii> Sidney) in 1895. 



Jr'vilI>. HENRY, the pseudonym of Madame 

 Mice Dmand ( nee Fleury), who was born at Paris, 

 12th Octoler 1842, accompanied her father when 

 he was called to a chair at St Petersburg in 1857, 

 and there married h,mile Durand, a French pro- 

 'i- of law, with whom she returned to France 

 in 1872. Already at St Petersburg she had con- 

 tributed romances to the journals ; when at Paris 

 she l>egan to issue with almost too great rapidity 

 a series of novels, often bright, vigorous, and 

 original in their pictures of Russian society, but 

 iine.iual, occasionally feeble, and sometimes even 

 n..t tree from the one fatal fault of dullness. Dosia 

 (1876) received from the Academy the Montyon 

 prize, and was followed by La Princesse Oqheroff 

 (1876), Lea Koumiossine (1877), Suzanne Normis 

 (1877), La Maiton Maureze (1877), Lea Epreuves 

 tie Rdiasa (1877), L'Amie (1878), Un Violon Rmse 

 (1879), Lucie Rodie (1879), Le Moulin Frappier 

 (1880), La Cite Menard (1880), Perdue (1881), 

 Madame de Dretix (1881), Rose Rozier (1882), Un 

 <'r,me (1884), Louis Breuil (1883), Idylles ( 1886), 

 and Cleopdtre (1886). 



Gr^vy, FRANCOIS PAUL JULES, President of 

 the French Republic, was born at Mont-sous- 

 Vaudroy, in the Jura, August 15, 1807. He 

 studied law in Paris, and was admitted an ad- 

 vocate, acquiring distinction as the defender of 

 republican political prisoners. After the Revolu- 



tion of 1848 he was commissary of the provisional 

 government in his native department, for which 

 also he Wfis returned to the Constituent AxM-mhlv. 

 While preserving an independent attitude, he 

 Usually voted \\ith the Left, imd his ability a* a 

 speaker soon brought him into prominence. He 

 became Vice-president of the . \sseiublv, and took a 

 leading part in the constitutional debates. He 

 opposed the government of Louis Napoleon, and 

 condemned the expedition to Home. After the 

 roit/i d'etat he retired from politics and confined 

 himself to the bar, but in 1869 he was again 

 returned as deputy for the .Jura. He denounced 

 the Second Empire during its clwing days, and 

 in February 1871 was elected President of the 

 National Assembly, Ijeing re-elected in 1876, 1877, 

 and 1879. The Monarchists were triumphant from 

 1873 to 1876, but their schemes were trenchantly 

 attacked by Grdvy, who likewise published a pam- 

 phlet entitled The .AYrr.s.w/ // liiH-r.rnment. upon 

 the resignation of Marshal MacMahon in 1879 

 Grevy was elected President of the Republic for 

 seven years, securing 503 votes out of a total of 

 713. Although his presidency was not brilliant, it 

 was frequently marked by much tact, as on the 

 occasion of the hostile demonstration against the 

 king of Spain, on his visit to Paris in 1883. The 

 republic was consolidated and strengthened at 

 home, but the foreign policy of France was in- 

 glorious, and in March 1885 President Grevy 

 closed the Tonkin difficulty by concluding peace 

 with China upon his own initiative. In Deceml>er 

 1885 Grevy was elected president for a further 

 period of seven years, but, hampered by ministerial 

 difficulties, resigned in December 1887. He died at 

 Mont-sous-Vaudrey, 9th September 1891. 



Grewia, a genus of Tiliaceous trees yielding 

 good bast for ropemaking, &.c. in the East Indies. 

 Some yield timber, and others their leaves as 

 fodder. 



Grey, CHARLES, EARL, statesman, was born at 

 Falloden, Northumberland, lath March 1764, and 

 educated at Eton and Cambridge. On attain- 

 ing his majority he was returned to parliament 

 as member for Northumberland in the Whig 

 interest, and ultimately succeeded to the leader- 

 ship of the party. He was one of the managers 

 of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, and in 

 1792 helped to found the Society of the Friends of 

 the People, whose object was the reform of the 

 representative system. Taking advantage of the 

 alarm caused by the French Revolution, Pitt sup- 

 pressed the society, and at a later period Grey 

 expressed regret for his share in the movement. 

 Grey introduced the futile motion for the impeach- 

 ment of Pitt, and took a prominent part in the 

 temporary ' secession ' of the Whigs from a parlia- 

 ment which was hostile to reform, and which he and 

 his friends maintained did not represent the nation. 

 He also strongly denounced the union between 

 England and Ireland. On the advent of the Fox- 

 Grenville administration in 1806, Grey, now Lord 

 Howick, was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, 

 and on the death of Fox he became Foreign Sec- 

 retary and leader of the House of Commons. Grey 

 was compelled bv circumstances to continue the 

 war policy of Pitt. To his honour he carried 

 through parliament the act al>olishing the African 

 slave-trade introduced bv Wilberforce in 1807. 

 The king quarrelled with his ministers on the 

 Catholic relief question, and as Grey declined 

 io give a promise not to press forward a measure 

 : or absolving Roman Catholics in the army and 

 navy from t he oath, the government was broken 

 up. 



In 1807 he succeeded his father as second Earl 

 rey. He ably led the Opposition for a period of 



