Grenville Channel

Grenville Channel (53˚37'00" 129˚43'00" Between Pitt I and the mainland). Capt George Vancouver named this important leg of the Inside Passage in 1793 after William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759–1834). Lord Grenville was a noted British Liberal statesman who held many cabinet positions, including home secretary (1789–91), foreign secretary (1791–1801) and PM (1806–7). He was chancellor of Oxford Univ, 1810–34. His wife, Anne Pitt (1773–1864), had a brother serving...

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