Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865), Diarist and clerk to the council

Clerk to the council; manager of the Duke of York's stud, and racing partner of Lord George Bentinck; clerk to council, 1821-59; intimate with statesmen, especially Wellington and Palmerston; his famous Diary is a primary source for the politics and personalities of the period.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.