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George Grote

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English historian and political radical

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According to Wikipedia, George Grote was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece. Early life George Grote was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent. His grandfather, Andreas, originally a Bremen merchant, was one of the founders of the banking-house of Grote, Prescott & Company in Threadneedle Street, London . His father, another George, married Selina, daughter of Henry Peckwell , minister of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Westminster, and his wife Bella Blosset , and had one daughter and ten sons, of whom George was the eldest. Arthur Grote was a brother.

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