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George Granville Leveson-Gower was the oldest son of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower and later 1st Marquis of Stafford, who commissioned Romney’s masterpiece, The Gower Family. The 1st Duke of Sutherland is most remembered for being the instigator of the notorious highland clearances of the early nineteenth century.
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 Conservative administration of Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ...
"Gower, George Granville Leveson-, first duke of Sutherland (1758–1833), landowner" published on by Oxford University Press.
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. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the dukes of Sutherland one of the richest landowning families in the United Kingdom.
Leveson came in unopposed for Staffordshire in March 1799 in the place of his half-brother Lord Gower, who took office with a barony. Canning hoped to obtain a place for him at the Admiralty before long or, if he was sent abroad, to take him with him, but Leveson had his own notion of seeing active service.
George Granville Leveson-Gower war der einzige Sohn von Granville Leveson-Gower, 1. Marquess of Stafford, (1721–1803) und seiner ersten Ehefrau Lady Louisa Egerton (1723–1761), einer Tochter von Scroop Egerton, 1. Duke of Bridgewater, mit seiner zweiten Gattin Lady Rachael Russell.
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