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Fulke Greville (1717–1806)
Fulke Greville (1717–1806) of Wilbury House, Newton Toney, Wiltshire, England, was an English landowner and diplomat. He was the son of Algernon Greville and Mary Somerset, daughter and coheiress of Lord Arthur Somerset, the youngest son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. His father was a son of Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke. For a time around 1731 he was educated as a gentleman commoner at Winchester College. His wife was the poet Frances Greville, daughter and coheir of James Macartney, Irish MP for Longford and Granard and his wife Catherine Coote. They eloped on 26 January 1748. They had several children, including: He served as Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1744, and as Member of Parliament for Monmouth Boroughs from 1747 to 1754. In 1765, he was appointed envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Imperial Diet of Ratisbon. He was the author of Maxims Characters and Reflections (1756).
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