Edmund Granville
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| Portrayed by Luke Norris | |
| Full Name | Edmund Alexander Granville |
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| Title | Mr Granville |
| Associated Noble House(s) | None |
| Date of Birth | 19th September 1784 |
| Father | Alexander Granville |
| Father's Rank | Solicitor |
| Mother | Amelia Granville |
| Mother's Rank | Clergyman's daughter |
| Town Residence | 25 Curzon Street |
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| School | Harrow |
| University | Oxford (Christ Church College) |
Edmund Granville is originally from Truro, where he followed in his father's footsteps as a lawyer. He has recently come to Town to try to mend the relationship between his family and that of Sir Maximus Granville, a distant cousin, whose heir he now is.
Edmund is played by Sarah
Family
- Alexander Granville – father, deceased (1754 – 1809)
- Amelia Granville – mother (1760 -)
- Sir Maximus Granville – first cousin, twice removed (1745-), second baronet
- Charlotte, Lady Granville – first cousin, twice removed via marriage (1750-)
- Tarquin Granville – second cousin, once removed, deceased (1769-1798)
- Aeneas Granville – second cousin, once removed, deceased (1771-1796)
- Peggy Granville (née Mason) – second cousin, once removed via marriage, deceased (1771-1799)
- Isabella Granville – third cousin (1793 -)
Background
Born the only son of a distant offshoot of the ancient family of Granville, Ned grew up in Cornwall. His mother Amelia was the younger daughter of the local reverend, and his father, Alexander, a solicitor who supplemented his income by tutoring young men in the classics, but his future was irrevocably altered when he was twelve years old and his father received word that his second cousin, Tarquin, had died, making Alexander the heir to the baronetcy, the Granville estate – and the Granville fortune.
Alexander, who had only met his cousins one or twice and hadn’t much liked them, and harboured some resentment for being characterised as the 'poor relations' for needing to work for his income, was not thrilled at the news – and even less so when Sir Maximus contacted him, asking him to go out to the West Indies and manage the family plantations. Not wishing to leave his family for an extended period of time and unwilling to uproot them and move them across the ocean, he refused. This was not taken well by Sir Maximus, who then cut off all contact entirely and made it clear that Alexander was not welcome in his home.
Ned’s day to day was not much changed by these events, but Alexander now decided that his son had better have a more formal education than his private tutoring and made the choice to send Ned to Harrow when he turned fourteen. He spent four years there, working diligently, and, at eighteen, won a scholarship to read Law at Oxford University, as a member of Christ Church College.
On finishing university Ned returned home to Cornwall and began to work in his father’s firm as an apprentice clerk. His intent was to work there for a while to gain experience, and then to apply to the Inns of Court in London and work towards becoming a barrister. In 1807, he visited a friend from Oxford in London and while staying there he started to make enquiries at the different Inns – but then things changed drastically when his father fell ill at the start of 1808.
When it became clear that his father was not going to recover any time soon, Ned made the decision to stay in Cornwall, to help look after Alexander and to support his mother. That was how things stayed, until his father died in late 1809.
Now left the heir to the Granville baronetcy, and the sole supporter of his mother, Ned thought long and hard during the year of mourning for Alexander about what the best thing to do would be. He finally came to the decision to reach out to his distant cousin, Sir Maximus, and attempt to mend the fences that his father had burned.
After several months of difficult, uncertain correspondence, Ned was invited to come and join them in London, and he has made the journey up from Cornwall in the hope of putting the discord that existed between his father and his cousins behind them.