George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland KG ( August 8, 1786 , † February 22, 1861 ) was a British nobleman and politician .
Life
He was the eldest son of four children of George Granville Leveson-Gower , who later became 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758–1833), and his wife Elizabeth Gordon, 19th Countess of Sutherland (1765–1839), heir to William Gordon, 18th Earl of Sutherland , and Mary Maxwell. As the Heir Apparent of his father, he carried the courtesy title Viscount Trentham since birth and the courtesy title Earl Gower since 1803 .
Between 1808 and 1820 he was the House - MP ( Whig ) for the districts of St Mawes (1808-1812), Newcastle-under-Lyme (1812 to 1815) and Staffordshire (1815-1820). Later, from 1839 to 1845, he was Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire . In the middle of the 19th century, he commissioned the architect Charles Barry to redesign the family seat of Dunrobin Castle on the east coast of Scotland . He had already designed the Palace of Westminster in London and was supposed to build a French style palace with a garden modeled on Versailles .
Leveson-Gower received a seat in the House of Lords in 1826 while his father was still alive , when he was given the subordinate title (5th) Baron Gower in advance through Writ of Acceleration . When his father died in 1833, he also inherited his other title as 2nd Duke of Sutherland . When his mother died in 1839, he also inherited her title of 20th Earl of Sutherland . In 1841 he changed his family name from Leveson-Gower to Sutherland-Leveson-Gower under a royal license . In the same year he was accepted as a Knight Companion in the Order of the Garter.
family
On May 18, 1823 George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower married in Tentham Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard (1806-1868), third daughter of the Scottish aristocrat George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle , and his wife Lady Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish. The marriage had eight children:
- Lady Constance Gertrude (1824–1880) ⚭ 1852 Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster ;
- Lady Elizabeth Georgiana (1824–1878) ⚭ 1844 George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll ;
- Lady Evelyn (1825–1869) ⚭ 1843 Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre ;
- Lady Caroline (1827-1887) ⚭ 1847 Charles FitzGerald, 4th Duke of Leinster ;
- George Granville William , 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1828-1892), ⚭ (1) 1849 Anne Hay-Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie († 1888), ⚭ (2) 1889 Mary Caroline Michell;
- Lord Frederick George (1832–1854), killed in the siege of Sevastopol ;
- Lord Albert (1843–1874) ⚭ 1873 Lady Grace Emma Townshend Abdy;
- Lord Ronald Charles (1845–1916), unmarried.
literature
- Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage , Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd (2003)
- Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage
- Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom , Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing (2000)
- Peter W. Hammond: The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times , Addenda & Corrigenda, Gloucestershire (1998)
Web links
- George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
- Mr George Leveson-Gower at the Hansard (English)
predecessor | Office | successor |
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George Leveson-Gower |
Baron Gower (by Writ of Acceleration) 1826-1861 |
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower |
George Leveson-Gower |
Duke of Sutherland 1833-1861 |
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower |
Elizabeth Gordon |
Earl of Sutherland 1839-1861 |
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, George, 2nd Duke of Sutherland |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, George Granville, 2nd Duke of Sutherland; Leveson-Gower, George, 2nd Duke of Sutherland; Leveson-Gower, George, Earl Gower |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and politician, member of the House of Commons |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1786 |
DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1861 |