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George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2 nd Marquis of Stafford, 1 st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833) has been called “The Leviathan of Wealth” and “the richest man that ever died”. In the early 19 th century his family was probably the richest in Britain.
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, KG, PC (9 January 1758 – 19 July 1833) was the son of the 1st Marquess of Stafford. He is estimated to have been the wealthist man of the nineteenth-century, surpassing even that of Nathan Rothschild .
The Duke was MP for St. Mawes, 1808-1812, for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1812-1815, and for Staffordshire, 1815-1820. He died on 22 February 1861. Their eldest son George Granville William (1828-1892), 3rd Duke of Sutherland, was MP for Sutherland, 1852-1861. He married Anne Hay-Mackenzie of Newhall and Cromartie on 27 June 1849.
George Granville Leveson-Gower, later Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, styled Earl Gower, later styled Marquess of Stafford, later 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786–1861) The Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower (c. 1788–1870), married Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk [3] and had issue.
15 de sept. de 2021 · The 2nd Duke of Sutherland subscribed to J.S. Buckingham’s anti-slavery The Slave States of America (London and Paris, 1842). His wife Harriet advocated for the abolition of slavery in America and, in 1853, hosted Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin , when she visited Britain.
Autres informations. George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1er duc de Sutherland ( 9 janvier 1758 – 19 juillet 1833 ), connu comme vicomte de Trentham de 1758 à 1786, comme comte Gower de 1786 à 1803, et marquis de Stafford de 1803 à 1833, est un homme politique et diplomate anglais, propriétaire et mécène des arts.
George Granville [Leveson-Gower], 4th Baron Gower later 2nd Marquess of Stafford later 1st Duke of Sutherland, KG PC only son of Granville [Leveson-Gower], 1st Marquess of Stafford , by his second wife Lady Louisa Egerton, 1st dau. and cohrss. in her issue by his second wife of Scrope [Egerton], 1st Duke of Bridgewater
