GRENVILLE, William - LANSDOWNE, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice.

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Statement of a Plan of Finance, Proposed to Parliament In the Year 1807; First edition, presentation copy from William Grenville, Prime Minister from 1806 to 1807, inscribed on the title page, "G. Hibbert Esqr. With Lord Grenville's compts", in what appears to be his rather than a secretarial hand. The book comprises the government's financial budget presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice Lansdowne, to parliament in 1807.George Hibbert (1757-1837) was an Alderman of the City of London (1798-1803), MP for the rotten borough of Seaford (1806-1812), and Agent-General for Jamaica (1812-1831). A member of a family network of slave traders and sugar planters, he was instrumental in the construction of the West India Docks and a leading pro-slavery lobbyist; he later benefited substantially from slave-owner compensation in 1833.

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