Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
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Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville , 1794-1865, English diarist. As clerk of the Council in Ordinary (1821-59), he was closely associated with Wellington, Palmerston, and other political leaders of the reigns of George IV, William IV, and Victoria. His memoirs (1874-87; ed. by Lytton Strachey and Roger Fulford, 1938) are an invaluable record of the period.
Bibliography: See L. Kronenberger, ed., The Great World: Portraits and Scenes from Greville's Memoirs (1962).
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