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George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland, KT, PC (29 August 1888 – 1 February 1963), styled Earl Gower until 1892 and Marquess of Stafford between 1892 and 1913, was a British courtier, patron of the film industry and Conservative party politician from the Leveson-Gower family. He held minor office in the ...
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888–1963), eldest son of the 4th Duke, died without issue Other titles (6th Duke onwards): Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, of Brackley in the county of Northamptonshire (1846)
He was made Duke of Sutherland in 1833. The duke's son, also named George, inherited the Earldom of Sutherland from his mother and the Dukedom of Sutherland from his father. The two titles continued united in the Leveson-Gower family until the death of the fifth duke in 1963.
On the death of the 5th Duke in 1963 the family estates passed to his niece Elizabeth, who became in her own right Countess of Sutherland, but his cousin the 5th Earl of Ellesmere succeeded...
NumberDescriptionHeld ByReference1British Library, Manuscript CollectionsAdd MS 893822Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive ...D (W)0/5, D (W)06, D (W)1452, D593, D868, ...3Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive ...D55694Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive ...D3272/1/20/1-5In Sutherland. 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).
Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, George Granville, 5th duke of Sutherland. British, 1888 - 1963
The title remained in the Leveson-Gower family until the death of the 5th Duke of Sutherland in 1963, when it passed to the 5th Earl of Ellesmere from the Egerton family. Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford.
