Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland

Coat of arms of the 4th Duke of Sutherland as a Knight of the Order of the Garter

Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland , KG (born July 20, 1851 in London , † June 27, 1913 in Dunrobin Castle ) was a British peer and therefore a member of the House of Lords .

background

Sutherland was the second born son of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland and Anne Hay-Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie (1829-1888). He went to Eton College .

Until the death of his older brother George in 1858, he used the courtesy address Lord Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, after which he held the courtesy title of Earl Gower from 1858 to 1861 and the courtesy title of Marquess of Stafford as Heir Apparent from 1858 to 1861 .

Military career

As Marquess of Stafford, Sutherland began his military service as an ensign in the 2nd Life Guards , and was retired as a lieutenant in 1875. He became captain of the Staffordshire Yeomanry in 1876 and was Lieutenant-Colonel there from 1891 to 1898. He was also Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sutherland Rifles, a volunteer regiment, from 1882 to 1891. From 1911 until his death he was Honorary Colonel of the Territorial Force Battalions of the Seaforth Highlanders .

He has also served as President of the Staffordshire Territorial Forces Association since the Territorial Force was established in 1908.

Political career

Sutherland's political activities focused on the House of Lords , which he belonged to on the benches of the Conservative Party after inheriting his father's titles. He was also Mayor of Longton near Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire from 1895 to 1896 and was Alderman there from 1898 .

Awards

He became a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1902 .

Sports

He was temporarily Master of Foxhounds with the North Staffordshire Hunt .

family

He married Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland , daughter of Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn , on October 20, 1884, and had four children with her:

• Lady Victoria Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1885-1888);
• George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888-1963);
• Lord Alastair St. Clair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1890–1921) ⚭ Elizabeth Demarest, whose daughter was Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 24th Countess of Sutherland ;
• Lady Rosemary Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1893–1930) ⚭ William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley . Before she married, she was the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales . She died in a plane crash with Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.

In 1900, the Duke of Sutherland owned around 550,000  hectares (1,358,000  acres ) of land and the steam-powered yacht Catania , which he also chartered to super-rich contemporaries.

The Duke died on June 27, 1913, at the age of 61 at Dunrobin Castle , Sutherlandshire and was buried in Dunrobin.

literature

• Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 1, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 979.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In Who's Who 1914 , page xxiv, June 26th is entered as the date of death
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Complete Peerage, Volume XII . St Catherine's Press, 1953, p. 567.
3. ↑ Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1900 . Kelly's,, p. 1301.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1913 . Kelly's,, p. 1648.
5. ^ ^{A b} The Complete Peerage, Volume XII , p. 568.
6. ↑ Rachel Trethewey (The History Press, 2018) Before Wallis: Edward VIII's other women

Web links

• Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland at Hansard (English)
• Sutherland, 4th Duke of (cr. 1833), Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower . In: Who's who, biographies, 1901 . August, p. 1084.

predecessor	Office	successor
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower	Duke of Sutherland 1892-1913	George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower