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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.
- Duke of Sutherland
George Granville Leveson-Gower 1758–1833 1st Duke of...
- George Leveson-Gower
Background and education. A member of the Leveson-Gower...
- Duke of Sutherland
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 t
15 de set. de 2021 · Biographical notes. Politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts. Slavery connections. History of Parliament states that ‘Canning found it typical of him that, although in private he probably favoured the abolition of the slave trade, Gower absented himself from debate on the subject, out of deference to his father’s hostile views’. (R.
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland. (1758-1833), Diplomat and magnate. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 22 portraits. Politician, art patron and landowner.
Political and diplomatic career. Sutherland sat as Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1779 to 1784 and for Staffordshire from 1787 to 1799. The latter year he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Gower.
