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Landowner George Leveson-Gower, viscount Trentham, son of Granville, earl Gower, married Elizabeth, countess of Sutherland in 1785. He was created a Privy Councillor in 1790 and served as British Ambassador to Paris from 1790-2. He and his wife spent a great deal renovating Dunrobin Castle as the family seat and funding the construction of 450 ...
Title: Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland. Creator: Thomas Lawrence. Date: 1800. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 77.4 x 63.4. Artist's Dates: 1769-1830. Thomas Lawrence was the leading portraitist of his generation, a self-taught artist whose immense talent saw him become Principal Painter to the King at th...
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower 1850–1858 Earl Gower. Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower 1851–1913 4th Duke of Sutherland, 5th Marquess of Stafford, 22nd Earl of Sutherland and Lord Strathnaver,6th Earl Gower and Viscount Trentham,7th Baron Gower. Francis Charles Granville Egerton 1847–1914 3rd Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount ...
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 t
Elizabeth Leveson-Gower; Información personal; Nacimiento: 24 de mayo de 1765: Fallecimiento: 29 de enero de 1839 (73 años) Nacionalidad: Escocesa: Lengua materna: Inglés: Familia; Padres: William Sutherland, 18th Earl of Sutherland Mary Maxwell: Cónyuge: George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland: Hijos: Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor ...
He was the eldest son of George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, and his wife Elizabeth Sutherland, suo jure Countess of Sutherland. He was educated at Harrow School from 1798 to 1803, then entered Christ Church, Oxford , where he graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1810.
Leveson was left with no prospect, except a lieutenant-colonelcy of the Staffordshire militia, which he declined. His brother, for a time, declined the lord lieutenancy of the county in protest. 5 He himself voted with the minority for a call of the House, 22 Jan. 1800. Meanwhile, Canning secured Pitt’s assurance that Leveson, who was not ...
