6th Foot, who died of wounds shortly afterwards. In November 1695, he was elected MP for Fowey, another borough controlled by the Earl of Bath. His regiment returned to England in early 1696 due to fears of a Jacobite invasion, and in a demonstration of his perceived reliability, on 21 March he was appointed Governor of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall. Although the invasion failed to materialise, he and his regiment remained in England until the war ended with the 1697 Peace of Ryswick. Re-elected for Fowey in August 1698, at the next election in January 1701 he stepped down in favour of his cousin John Granville. When the War of the Spanish Succession began in July, his regiment was posted to Flanders; Granville did not accompany it, having been appointed Governor of Barbados in May 1702, with a salary of £2,000 per annum. This meant he would have to relinquish Pendennis Castle, ownership of his regiment and his army rank, which led to a complex series of negotiations and delayed his departure until March 1703. In the end, he sold his regiment to William North, 6th Baron North in January, , Marlborough approved his promotion to brigadier general and his brother George replaced him as Governor of Pendennis Castle. Accompanied by his youngest brother Bernard, Granville reached Barbados in June, but his time there was marked by poor health and struggles with the Parliament of Barbados. A colonial governorship provided many opportunities for personal enrichment and the settlers began complaining to Parliament of his "tyranny and extortion". Although "honourably acquitted" at a hearing on 20 July 1705, Granville asked Marlborough to approve his recall, which he did; on 15 September 1706, he died of fever on board the ship bringing him home. Notes References Sources |- 1665 births 1706 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Barbadian political people 17th-century English people 18th-century English people Bevil Knights Bachelor Royal Lincolnshire Regiment officers Governors of Barbados