Greville

American

[grev-il] / ˈgrɛv ɪl /

noun

Fulke 1st Baron Brooke, 1554–1628, English poet and statesman.

Greville British

/ ˈɡrɛvɪl /

noun

Fulke (fʊlk), 1st Baron Brooke. 1554–1628, English poet, writer, politician, and diplomat: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1614–22); author of The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney (1652)

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Britain has produced some formidable diarists—Parson Woodforde, Charles Greville, Chips Channon, Harold Nicolson—but no name resonates with the power of Samuel Pepys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Hilary Manley, the judge at Manchester Crown Court, directed that he was not guilty on all three counts against Kate and Emma Greville.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023

Ms Greville accused the former footballer and a woman called Steph of having a "full blown affair in 2014" which "carried on the whole time you were seeing me".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2022

When Ms Greville arrived there, the couple did not talk.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022

Desperate to unload his stolen cache of documents, he approached a British businessman in Moscow named Greville Wynne, urging him to take a message to the British embassy.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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