Personal Life
Greville never married. He lived for years in a house facing Paddington Green, then a suburban district of London, where he indulged his passion for gardening in a large garden provided with glasshouses in which he grew many rare tropical plants, aided by his connection with Banks, and where he managed to coax Vanilla planifolia to flower for the first time under glass, in the winter of 1806-07. His contributions to the herbarium assembled by Sir James Edward Smith are preserved by the Linnaean Society of London. The Australasian genus Grevillea is named in his honour. In the latter part of his life he lived at Warwick Castle.
Greville died in April 1809, aged 60. Greville Island, in the South Island of New Zealand, was named to honour his memory by Ensign Barallier, in 1820. Greville plays a role in Susan Sontag's 1992 novel The Volcano Lover, about Sir William Hamilton.
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