William Granville, (1785 – January 1864) was the Treasurer of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (1823–1824; 1828–1841), Commissioner of Stamps, and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils.
[1][2] Granville came out to Ceylon with Sir Thomas Maitland, arriving at Galle on 13 July 1805.
Granville was appointed by Governor Robert Brownrigg to escort the deposed King of Kandy, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, from Colombo to Madras.
Granville and his family returned to England and lived at Bath, where he died in January 1864, at the age of seventy-nine.
His remains were brought to St Giles' church, Stoke Poges and interred with the rest of the Penn family.