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John Gower ist der Name folgender Personen: John Gower (Schriftsteller) (1330–1408), englischer Dichter und Schriftsteller. John Gower (Politiker) (1941–2011), US-amerikanischer Politiker. John Leveson-Gower, 1. Baron Gower (1675–1709), britischer Politiker.
Also known as John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower primary name: Gower, John Leveson other name: (Earl) Gower
Baptist Leveson-Gower (c. 1703–1782) was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34 years from 1727 to 1761. Leveson-Gower was the fourth son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Baron Gower , MP, and his wife Lady Catherine Manners, daughter of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland . [1]
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 ...
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower. by John Faber Jr, after Jean Baptiste van Loo mezzotint, 1743 or after 13 7/8 in. x 9 7/8 in. (354 mm x 251 mm) plate size; 14 3/8 in. x 10 1/4 in. (364 mm x 259 mm) paper size Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931 Reference Collection NPG D2453
When John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower was born on 7 January 1675, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir William Levenson-Gower, was 30 and his mother, Lady Jane Granville, was 21. He married Catherine Manners in September 1692, in England, United Kingdom.
Sir John left an only daughter, Katherine Maria – the last of the Greshams. Thanks to the prudence of her parents, she found herself an heiress after their death and in 1804 married William Leveson Gower, a younger son of Admiral the Hon. John Leveson Gower and first cousin of the Marquis of Stafford, later the 1st Duke of Sutherland.
