Baron Greville, of Clonyn in the County of Westmeath, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 15 December 1869 for the Liberal

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 politician Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent

Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville

Colonel Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville was an Irish politician, born Fulke Southwell Greville.-Biography:...

, Member of Parliament

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 for Longford

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 from 1852 to 1869. Born Fulke Southwell Greville he was a descendant of Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke (from whom the Greville Earls of Warwick

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 are also descended). Lord Greville married Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne (died 1883), only daughter George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath

George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath

George Thomas John Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath , styled Lord Delvin between 1792 and 1814 and known as The Earl of Westmeath between 1814 and 1821, was an Irish peer.-Background:...

, and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Nugent in 1866. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was also a Liberal politician and served as Private Secretary to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

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 from 1872 to 1873 and as a Lord of the Treasury

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 from 1873 to 1874. In 1883 Lord Greville resumed by Royal license the surname of Greville only. On his death the title passed to his only son, the third Baron. He was Military Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia

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, Lord Northcote

Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote

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, from 1904 to 1908. He was succeeded by his only son, the fourth Baron. He never married and on his death in 1987 the Barony became extinct.

Barons Greville (1869)

• Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville
  Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville
  Colonel Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville was an Irish politician, born Fulke Southwell Greville.-Biography:...
  
   (1821–1883)
• Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville
  Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville
  Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville was a British politician.Algernon was the eldest son of Fulke Southwell Greville and his wife Lady Rosa Nugent, the only daughter and heir of the Marquess of Westmeath...
  
  (1841–1909)
• Charles Beresford Fulke Greville, 3rd Baron Greville (1871–1952)
• Ronald Charles Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Greville (1912–1987).