Richard Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
(1797-1861), WriterEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter associated with 10 portraits
An only child, Grenville was educated at Eton and then briefly at Oxford where he fathered an illegitimate child. To keep him out of further trouble his father sent him on a grand tour. Under his father’s influence he became a politician and celebrated as a moderate reformer. In the 1830s, Grenville received compensation when slavery was abolished in the British Empire for a plantation he owned in Jamaica. Nevertheless, by the 1840s he was in severe financial trouble resulting in bankruptcy and the selling of the contents of his family estate at Stowe and large amounts of land.
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