GEORGE GRENVILLE, PRIME MINISTER, 1763–1765
George Grenville became prime minister in 1763, but King George found him irksome: “When he has wearied me for two hours, he looks at his watch, to see if he may not tire me for an hour more,” the king said, and sacked him in July 1765 for being insolent, not for his controversial colonial policies. The Earl of Halifax, Garrowby, Yorkshire.