# George Grote — The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill character guide

> George Grote in The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Grote, Grote

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

Radical historian and politician whose formidable pen helped Mill's circle strike its hardest early blow against Whig 'seesaw' politics.

## Who they are

Grote belongs to the tight Philosophical Radical cohort around Mill and his father, the allies who launched the Westminster Review in 1824 against the Whig Edinburgh. His attacks on the governing classes' habit of writing on both sides of every question gave the young Mill a model of principled political combat. He matters because he shows how Mill's intellectual formation was bound up with a militant, argumentative circle rather than solitary study.

## Relationships

### [John Stuart Mill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_john_stuart_mill_se/characters/john_stuart_mill)

_friendship_

Grote was a close friend and intellectual ally, co-founding the London Debating Society and sharing utilitarian views.

### [John Black](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_john_stuart_mill_se/characters/john_black)

_social_

Grote and Black were acquaintances through radical political circles and the London Debating Society.

### [Thomas Babington Macaulay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_john_stuart_mill_se/characters/thomas_babington_macaulay)

_rivalry_

Grote and Macaulay were intellectual opponents, clashing over historical and political interpretations.

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