John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1701)
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath PC, 29 August 1628 – 22 August 1701, was an English landowner from Cornwall who served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War and was rewarded for his services after the 1660 Stuart Restoration with a title and various appointments.
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