Earl Granville

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Earls Granville Coat of Arms (second award)

Earl Granville is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , named after the town of Granville in Normandy in France. It had previously been awarded once in the Peerage of Great Britain .

Awards and subordinate titles

The first award was on January 1, 1715 in the Peerage of Great Britain to Grace Carteret . Along with the earliest dignity, she was also given the subordinate title Viscountess Carteret . The title should actually be given to her husband Georg Carteret , who had already been made Baron Carteret , of Hawnes, in the Peerage of England in 1685 . However, he died in 1695 before the survey. The family was of Norman origin and resident in the Channel Islands . Her son and heir, the 2nd Earl, had inherited his deceased husband's title of 2nd Baron Carteret and 3rd Baronet , of Metesches in the Island of Jersey, which were henceforth listed as subordinate titles of the Earl. The latter Baronetcy was given to his grandfather in 1645 in the Baronetage of England. The titles expired when the 3rd Earl died childless on February 13, 1776.

Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville , had appointed his grandson Henry Frederick Thynne , the younger son of his daughter Lady Louisa Carteret and brother of the 3rd Viscount Weymouth , to be his heir in case his son Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville died without a male heir would. When he actually died without an heir in 1776, Thynne inherited the earl's estates and changed his name to Carteret. On January 29, 1784 he was raised to Baron Carteret , of Hawnes in the County of Bedford , it was determined that he could bequeath the title to the younger sons of his brother if he died without offspring. However, after these two had also died childless, the title expired on March 10, 1849.

On May 10, 1833, the title Earl Granville in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was reassigned, this time to the famous diplomat Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Viscount Granville . He was a great-grand-nephew of Grace Carteret, a younger son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford , and a half-brother of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland . The respective Earl therefore also stands in the line of succession for the title of Marquess of Stafford and the titles that are subordinate to this. These are now run by the Duke of Sutherland .

Along with the earliest title, the 1st Earl Second Award was given the subordinate title of Baron Leveson , of Stone in the County of Stafford . On August 12, 1815, he was raised to Viscount Granville , of Stone Park in the County of Stafford. The title heir carries the courtesy title of Lord Leveson .

List of Earls Granville, Barons Carteret, and Carteret Baronets

Carteret Baronets, of Metesches (1645)

Barone Carteret, first bestowed (1681)

Earls Granville, first bestowal (1715)

Barone Carteret, second bestowal (1784)

Earls Granville, second bestowal (1833)

The heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current Earl, George Granville Leveson-Gower James, Lord Leveson (* 1999).

Others

The surname of the current owner of the title is pronounced "Looson-Gore".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cracroft's Peerage: Granville, Earl (GB, 1715-1776). Retrieved September 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b The London Gazette : No. 19044, p. 835 , May 3, 1833.
  3. ^ The London Gazette: 17040, 1425 , July 15, 1815.

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