William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), statesman, was chancellor of Oxford University from 1810 to 1834. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Fair copies, mainly holograph, of Oxford University Chancellor's Prize essays and poems, with seventeen Newdigate Prize poems, collected by Lord Grenville as Chancellor.

The collection was owned and arranged by George Matthew Fortescue and remained at Dropmore until 1939.

The collection was bought from Thomas Thorp and given to the Library by the Friends of the Bodleian in 1939.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 39032-41.

The English essays are printed in Oxford English prize essays (Oxford, 2nd ed., 1836).

Essays

Poetry

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