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18 de mai. de 2024 · George Granville Leveson-Gower, later duke of Sutherland, for instance, was the catalyst for notorious evictions that took place from about 1810 to 1820. Advised that his interior lands were best suited for sheep raising and were little fit for human habitation, he evicted thousands of families, burning their cottages and ...
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Há 1 dia · In 1823 the marquess settled the manor for life on his son George Granville, Earl Gower (2nd duke 1833). After the 2nd duke's death in 1861 the manor continued to descend with the dukedom. Most of the manorial estate, except in Donnington Wood, was sold by the 5th duke (d. 1963) in separate lots in 1914 and 1917.
Consecrated in 1862 as a memorial to the 2nd duke, the new church cost some £4,000, almost all of it privately donated. Designed by G. E. Street, the second church consists of a tunnel-vaulted chancel with north vestry, aisled and clerestoried nave of four bays, and a south porch under a tower.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (born May 11, 1815, London, England—died March 31, 1891, London) was a British foreign secretary in William E. Gladstone’s first and second administrations, succeeding him as leader of the Liberal Party.
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25 de mai. de 2024 · In 1889, Mary Caroline Blair shocked society by marrying George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the 3rd Duke of Sutherland, just four months after the death of his first wife. Queen Victoria herself had advised the Duke to wait before remarrying, so the hasty union was seen as a major breach of protocol.
17 de mai. de 2024 · The tenth child of British Liberal politician and Scottish peer George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland), she was born at Argyll Lodge in Kensington, London.[2]
Há 3 dias · In 1833 Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, second son of the first Duke of Sutherland, inherited Bridgwater House and the income arising out of the Bridgwater estates, and, under the terms of the third Duke of Bridgwater's will, assumed the name of Egerton.
