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George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (8 August 1786 – 27 February 1861), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower between 1803 and 1833 and Marquess of Stafford in 1833, was a British peer and Whig politician from the Leveson-Gower family.
15 de set. de 2021 · The 2nd Duke of Sutherland subscribed to J.S. Buckingham’s anti-slavery The Slave States of America (London and Paris, 1842). His wife Harriet advocated for the abolition of slavery in America and, in 1853, hosted Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, when she visited Britain.
2 de mar. de 2023 · Genealogy for George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (Leveson-Gower), 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (1786 - 1861) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- August 8, 1786
- February 27, 1861
George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833) succeeded his father as 2nd Marquess of Stafford (so created 1786) in 1803 and was raised to the dukedom of Sutherland in 1833. He married in 1785...
NumberDescriptionHeld ByReference1British Library, Manuscript CollectionsAdd MS 893822Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive ...D (W)0/5, D (W)06, D (W)1452, D593, D868, ...3Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive ...D55694Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive ...D3272/1/20/1-5Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the dukes of Sutherland one of the richest landowning families in the United Kingdom.
When George Granville Sutherland Leveson Gower 2nd Duke of Sutherland was born on 8 August 1786, in St Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Duke of Sutherland, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Gordon Countess of Sutherland, was 21.
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (8 August 1786 – 27 February 1861), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower between 1803 and 1833 and Marquess of Stafford in 1833, was a British peer and Whig politician from the Leveson-Gower family.
