Resultado de búsqueda
Rose Constance Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville GCVO GCStJ (née Bowes-Lyon; 6 May 1890 – 17 November 1967) was the third daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne by his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. An elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, she was therefore a maternal aunt of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Hon. Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon, 6 May 1890
- 17 November 1967 (aged 77)
- 2
Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville. Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville MC (6 December 1918 – 31 October 1996) was a British soldier, banker, peer, and landowner, a member of the House of Lords from 1953 until his death. He was laird of North Uist from 1960 and Lord Lieutenant of the Western Isles from 1983 to 1993.
26 de abr. de 2022 · Daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Wife of William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville. Mother of Lady Mary Cecilia Clayton; Lord Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville and Private.
- England
- Hamburg, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
- May 06, 1890
- Shirley Marie Caulk
Rose Constance Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville was the third daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne by his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. An elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, she was therefore a maternal aunt of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Background and Education
- Political Career
- Military Career
- Industrial Career
- Foreign Policy
- Family
- Death
- Legacy
- Bibliography
- External Links
Leveson-Gower was born in London, the eldest son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville and Lady Harriet Cavendish, daughter of Lady Georgiana Spencer and William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. His father was a younger son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and his third wife; an elder son with his second wife (a daugh...
Leveson-Gower went to Paris for a short time under his father, and in 1836 was elected to Parliament as Whig MP for Morpeth. For a short time (1840-1) he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Lord Melbourne's ministry. From 1841 until his father's death in 1846, when he succeeded to the title, he sat for Lichfield. In the House of Lor...
He served in the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry, being commissioned as a major on 12 December 1848 and being promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 3 July 1854. He continued in the regiment until the early 1860s. As Lord Warden, he was appointed honorary colonel of the 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteerson 23 April 1866.
Lord Granville owned coal and ironstone mines at Stoke-on-Trent and was the principal shareholder of the Shelton Iron & Steel Co In 1873 the company operated 8 blast furnaces and 97 puddling furnaces. He also held shares in the Lilleshall Company.
During the American Civil War, Granville was non-interventionist along with the majority of Palmerston's cabinet. His memorandum against intervention in September 1862 drew Prime Minister Palmerston's attention. The document proved to be a strong reason for Palmerston's refusal to intervene and for Britain's relations with the North to remain basic...
Lord Granville married Lady Acton (Marie Louise Pelline de Dalberg), daughter of the Duke of Dalberg, Emmerich Joseph de Dalberg (a famous diplomat), widow of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, Bt and mother of the historian Lord Acton, in 1840. She died in 1860. He was engaged in 1864 to an envoy and former spy from the Confederate States of America, Ro...
Granville died in London on 31 March 1891 and was succeeded in his peerages by his elder son, who became the 3rd Earl. He was buried in the family vault in the churchyard of St Michael and St Wulfad, Stone, Staffordshire.
Granville was the name of the present Canadian city of Vancouver from 1870 until its incorporation in 1886. Granville Streetis a major north–south thoroughfare in the city.Granville house at Epsom Collegewas named in his honour.Cecil, Algernon. British Foreign Secretaries 1807-1916 (1927) pp 255–273. onlineChamberlain, Muriel E. "Gower, Granville George Leveson-, second Earl Granville (1815–1891)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 2...Petty-Fitzmaurice, Edmond George. The life of Granville George Leveson Gower: second earl Granville (2 vol 1905) full text onlineShannon, Richard (1999). Gladstone. Vol. II, 1865–1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2486-3. OCLC 9971485.Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Granville"Archival material relating to Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville". UK National Archives.Portraits of Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonGeorge Granville Leveson-Gower, 2º conde Granville (11 de mayo de 1815-31 de marzo de 1891), fue un político liberal británico. Ocupó diversos cargos en su carrera, entre ellos el de secretario de Asuntos Exteriores (1851-1862, 1870-1874, 1880-1885) y líder de los liberales en la Cámara de los Lores, por casi 30 años.
Rose Constance Granville, Countess Granville, 1890-1967. Granville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville, 1872-1939. Custodial history: These records were deposited in the Public Record Office on loan from the Leveson-Gower family in 1927 and 1938.
