40º07N 82º50W, pop (2000e) 3200. Town in Licking Co, Ohio, USA; located 40 km/25 mi E of Columbus, near R Licking and L Buckeye; founded (1805) by settlers from Granville, MA and Connecticut; incorporated, 1832; adopted municipal charter (1964) for council-manager form of government in use today; birthplace of Hubert Howe Bancroft; Denison University (1831); Avery-Downer House (1842) houses the Robbins Hunter Museum.
Earls of Granville
Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1667-1744) John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690-1763) Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville (1721-1776) Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
(1773-1846) Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891) Granville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville (1872-1939) William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville
(1880-1953) Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville (1918-1996) Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (b. 1959)
People called Granville
William Anthony Granville, the sixth president of Gettysburg College from 1910 until 1923.
Fictional characters
The character played by David Jason in the BBC TV sitcom Open All Hours
Locations named Granville
Australia
Granville, New South Wales is a suburb of Sydney, site of the Granville railway disaster.
United States counties
Granville County, North Carolina
United States communities
Granville, Illinois Granville, Indiana (extinct) Granville, Iowa Granville, Massachusetts Granville Township, Minnesota Granville, New York Granville (village), New York Granville, North
Dakota Granville, Ohio Granville South, Ohio Granville Township, Pennsylvania Granville, Vermont Granville, West Virginia Granville, Wisconsin (ceased to exist in 1956)
Rail and metro stations
Granville (CTA Red Line station) - Granville station on the Red Line of the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, United States Granville Station (Vancouver) - Granville station on the SkyTrain system
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Brands
Charles de Granville is a French calvados (apple brandy).
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