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The 2nd Duke of Sutherland, c. 1810. George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (8 August 1786 – 27 February 1861), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower between 1803 and 1833 and Marquess of Stafford in 1833, was a British peer and Whig politician from the Leveson-Gower family. [1]
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (1721–1803) George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758–1833) Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857) George Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere (1823–1862) Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere (1847–1914) Hon. Thomas Henry Frederick Egerton (1876–1953)
Image: Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. William West, Picturesque Views of Staffordshire. (Birmingham 1830). This view shows a substantially altered house compared to the print of Trentham Hall in Plot’s History of Staffordshire (1686). Image from: Local Studies and History, Birmingham Central Library George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquis of Stafford, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833 ...
Granville Leveson-Gower was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles. Granville Leveson-Gower was born 4 August 1721 probably at Trentham, Staffordshire, and certainly baptised there 20 August, the third but eventually eldest surviving son of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, and his first wife, Lady Evelyn Pierrepont. [1]
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford. by Edward Fisher, after Sir Joshua Reynolds mezzotint, 1765 (1763) NPG D9193
Leveson-Gower was the son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, by his third wife, Susanna. He was the younger half-brother of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, and the uncle of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere. He was also a great-great-nephew of the aforementioned Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville.
Diplomat Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, was widely considered one of the most handsome men of his time. He is best remembered for the fifteen-year affair he had with Henrietta Frances (Harriet) Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough. Their relationship produced two children and lasted until he married Lady Bessborough's niece Lady Henrietta Elizabeth Cavendish. Leveson-Gower entered ...
