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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, 1st Duke of Sutherland, by Thomas Phillips John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, by Allan Warren. 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.
- James Granville Egerton, Marquess of Stafford
- Peerage of the United Kingdom
A member of the Leveson-Gower family headed by the Duke of Sutherland, Leveson-Gower was the son of the Honourable Frederick Leveson-Gower, third son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville. His mother was Lady Margaret Compton, daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton.
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...
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).….
15 de sept. de 2021 · Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website. P. Ward-Jackson, 'Leveson-Gower family (1) George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T050710.
