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George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC (9 January 1758 – 19 July 1833), known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786 to 1803 and as the Marquess of Stafford from 1803 to 1833, was an English politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts from the Leveson-Gower family.
15 de sept. de 2021 · Biographical notes. Politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts. Slavery connections. History of Parliament states that ‘Canning found it typical of him that, although in private he probably favoured the abolition of the slave trade, Gower absented himself from debate on the subject, out of deference to his father’s hostile views’. (R.
A member of the Leveson-Gower family headed by the Duke of Sutherland, Leveson-Gower was the son of the Honourable Frederick Leveson-Gower, third son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville. His mother was Lady Margaret Compton, daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton.
Sutherland-Leveson-Gower was born at Portland Place, London, on 8 August 1786, [2] and baptised at St Marylebone Parish Church. [3] He was the eldest son of George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, and his wife Elizabeth Sutherland, suo jure Countess of Sutherland.
George Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland. primary name: primary name: Gower, George Granville Leveson. other name: other name: (2nd Marquess of) Stafford. other name: other name: (Duke of) Sutherland.
18th cent: Leveson-Gower family papers, mainly of the 1st Earl Gower (1694-1754) and the Marquess of Stafford (1721-1803) British Library, Manuscript Collections. See Former ref PRO 30/29. 30. 18th cent: Sutherland family, legal and official paper. National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections. MS.1482-1487.
George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758–1833), who had married (1785) Elizabeth (countess of Sutherland in her own right), succeeded his father as marquess of Stafford (1803) and was named duke of Sutherland (1833). He was responsible for road building and for the notorious “Highland clearances” (c. 1810–20).….
