George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland

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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, about 1810
Coat of arms of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland as Knight of the Order of the Garter

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:

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)

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predecessor Office successor
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
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