Granville
Granville names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Granville GEORGE LEVESON- GOWER, 2nd EARL
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE LEVESON- GOWER, 2nd EARL, an English states- ; eduman; born in London, May 11, 1815 entered cated at Eton and Oxford, and Mor- Parliament in 1836 as member for peth, exchanging that seat for Lichfield in 1840. He succeeded to the peerage in 1846, and five years later entered the Russell, holding cabinet of Lord John the seals of the Foreign Office. From that time forward he held office in every Liberal ministry. He became president the of the Council in 1853, and leader of House of Lords in 1855. He labored arduously in connection with the great exhibitions of 1851 and 1862. Lord Granville was charged to form a ministry in 1859; but having failed to do so he joined Lord Palmerston's second administration. He retired with Earl the preceding Russell in 1866, having of year been made Lord Warden the December, 1868, he Cinque Ports. In was appointed Colonial Secretary in Mr. ministry, and on the Gladstone's first death of Lord Clarendon in 1870 became Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He arranged the treaty between England, , and Prussia guaranteeing the in- France nd confirmed dependence of Belgium; and with Prince Gortchakoff the agreement form an inthat Afghanistan should termediary zone between England and foreign Russia. In 1880 he again became secretary under Mr. Gladstone, and displayed considerable diplomatic skill in Berlin treaty, the matters relating to the occupation of Tunis, and the revolt of Arabi Pasha in Egypt. He retired with his chief in 1885, but returned once more to office as colonial secretary in with his colleagues 1886, resigning again in August of the latter year. He died in London, March 31, 1891.
Granville a seaport Manche
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a seaport Manche, France in the department of La , English on a rocky promontory on the Malo. The Channel, 23 miles N. E. of St. 15th-century church and a hydrographic principal institutions. college are the the French The town was captured by in 1450, and the English in 1695, and unsuccessfully besieged by the Vendéans in 1803. Pop. 1793, and the English in about 12,000.
Granville EARL See CARTERET
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EARL See CARTERET.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 sketch of the 2nd Earl Granville, dead since 1891, still stands as written, and "Earl Granville: see Carteret" remains the right cross-reference for the 18th-century title. The Norman seaport has had a harder century than the 1921 note of a "15th-century church and a hydrographic college" suggests: on the night of 8-9 March 1945, months after the town's liberation, the German garrison still holding the Channel Islands mounted a seaborne raid on Granville, wrecking shipping and port installations and carrying off prisoners. Today the town is best known as the birthplace of Christian Dior, born there in 1905 and now commemorated in a museum in his childhood villa, and as the ferry port for Jersey and the Chausey islands. Its population, given as "about 12,000" in 1921, is still roughly that figure.
Written for this edition, 2026.