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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 the Leveson-Gower family.
- George Leveson-Gower
A member of the Leveson-Gower family headed by the Duke of...
- George Leveson-Gower
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758–1833), eldest son of the 1st Marquess. Other titles (2nd–5th Dukes): Earl of Sutherland and Lord Strathnaver (Sc 1235) George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786–1861), eldest son of the 1st Duke.
George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833) succeeded his father as 2nd Marquess of Stafford (so created 1786) in 1803 and was raised to the dukedom of Sutherland in 1833. He married in 1785 Elizabeth Gordon, in her own right Countess of Sutherland, daughter of the 18th Earl of Sutherland by Mary, daughter and co-heir of William Maxwell of ...
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 ...D3272/1/20/1-5George 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). He was responsible for road building and for the notorious “Highland clearances” (c. 1810–20).… Read More.
The 1st Duke of Sutherland is most remembered for being the instigator of the notorious highland clearances of the early nineteenth century. Details. Title: Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke...
15 de sept. de 2021 · Biographical notes. Politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts. Slavery connections. History of Parliament states that ‘Canning found it typical of him that, although in private he probably favoured the abolition of the slave trade, Gower absented himself from debate on the subject, out of deference to his father’s hostile views’. (R.
