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Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, GCB, PC (12 October 1773 – 8 January 1846), styled Lord Granville Leveson-Gower from 1786 to 1815 and The Viscount Granville from 1815 to 1833, was a British Whig statesman and diplomat from the Leveson-Gower family.
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, by Thomas Lawrence. The second creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1833 when the noted diplomat Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Viscount Granville, was made Earl Granville and Baron Leveson, of Stone Park in the County of Stafford.
In Gladstone’s first Government (1868-74), Granville was Colonial Secretary. He ensured that the Crown took over the Canadian territories of the Hudson’s Bay Company and persuaded New Zealand and Canada to assume responsibility for their own defence costs.
British, 1769–1830. Oil on canvas. 92 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (235 x 130.8 cm) The imposing portrait Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, later 1st Earl Granville displays Sir Thomas Lawrence’s mastery of design and handling of paint.
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, KG PC (4 August 1721 – 26 October 1803), known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British politician from the Leveson-Gower family.
Title: Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville and predecessors and successors: Papers. Description: Transferred to the British Library (reference: Add MS 89317). The papers consist mainly of...
Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, diplomatist, was born on 12 October 1773. He was third and youngest son of Granville, first marquis of Stafford by his third wife, Lady Susannah Stewart, second daughter of Alexander, sixth earl of Galloway. Granville was said to have been the most handsome man in Regency England.
