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Leveson Gower entered the House with considerable contacts among the Tories, particularly the Granvilles and the Hydes: his grandfather was the 1st Earl of Bath and his uncle was Hon. John Granville*; his sister married Lord Hyde (Henry*), the heir of the Earl of Rochester (Laurence Hyde†), in 1692.
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower Lady Catherine Manners John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower , PC (10 August 1694 – 25 December 1754) was an English Tory politician and peer who twice served as Lord Privy Seal from 1742 to 1743 and 1744 to 1754.
Adm. Hon. John Leveson-Gower (1740-1792) Born: 11th July 1740 Rear-Admiral of the White Died: 15th August 1792 at Hurst, Berkshire. Rear-Admiral Leveson-Gower (pronounced Lewison-Gore) was the second son of John, 1st Earl Gower, and his third wife, Mary, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Tufton, Earl of Thanet and widow of Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold.
When John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower was born on 10 August 1694, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower, was 19 and his mother, Lady Catherine Manners, was 19. He married Evelyn Pierrepont Countess Gower on 13 March 1711, in Soho, Middlesex, England.
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 (10 août 1694 - 25 décembre 1754) [1], [2] est un homme politique conservateur britannique de la famille Leveson-Gower, l'un des premiers conservateurs à entrer au gouvernement après la succession de Hanovre.
Sir John Leveson Gower was the beneficiary of the union of the old gentry Yorkshire Gower family with the former mercantile Staffordshire and Shropshire Levesons, the latter of whom commanded a powerful interest in Newcastle-under-Lyme.3 The Gowers had held land in Yorkshire since the twelfth century but had been largely content to maintain their position in society rather than seek to improve ...
