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emplified in his own abilities to command, to administer, and to uplift.

On his father’s side were the Grenvilles, who made good account of themselves in such cause as they approved, among them Basil Grenville, commander of the Royalist Cornish Army, killed at Lansdown in 1643 in defence of King Charles.

“Four wheels to Charles’s wain:
Grenville, Trevanion, Slanning, Godolphin slain.”

There was also Sir Richard Grenville, immortalized by Tennyson in “The Revenge,” and John Pascoe Grenville, the right-hand man of Admiral Cochrane, who boarded the Spanish admiral’s ship, the Esmeralda, on the port side, while Cochrane came up on the starboard, when together they made short work of