George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
George Granville William Sutherland - Leveson - Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland ( born December 19, 1828 † September 22, 1892 ) was one of the leading nobles of the United Kingdom in the Victorian era.
Family
He was the eldest son and the fifth child of the marriage of George Sutherland - Leveson - Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland and his wife, Elizabeth Gordon, 19th Countess of Sutherland ( 1765-1839 ). George Granville attended Eton College and King's College London.
He married his first wife, Anne Hay- Mackenzie (1829-1888), which received its own right later the title of Countess of Cromartie. They had five children:
- George Granville Sutherland Leveson - Gower ( born July 27, 1850 † July 5, 1858 )
- Cromartie Sutherland - Leveson - Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland ( born July 20, in 1851; † June 27, 1913 )
- Francis Mackenzie Sutherland - Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl of Cromartie ( born August 3, 1852 † November 24, 1893 )
- Lady Florence Sutherland - Leveson Gower ( † 10 October 1881), married to Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin
- Lady Alexandra Sutherland Leveson - Gower († April 16, 1891 ), unmarried.
After the death of his first wife he married - scandalous, because only four months had elapsed after the death of his first wife and they had previously lived two months with the Duke in Tampa, Florida - Mary Caroline Blair, nee Mitchell, widow of Captain Arthur Kindersley Blair from the 71st Highland Light Infantry Regiment, daughter of the pastor Richard Mitchell. Her first husband, the Duke dependent, is - according to newspaper reports - have died due to errors caused by the Duke hunting accident.
Upon the death of the Duke, the "Duchess Blair " alleged to have embezzled documents to affect the heritage in their favor, which earned her six weeks in prison. With the family of the Dukes, it finally came to a settlement which enabled her to build Carbisdale Castle and to relate to an annual income of £ 100,000.
Public work
George Granville was 1852-1861 Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sutherland House of Commons. When he also inherited his seat in the House of Lords after the death of his father in 1861, he had to give up his seat in the House.
The Duke was an avid hobby railroaders who - he was one of the richest men in Britain of his time - not only the Duke of Sutherland 's Railway, now part of the Far North Line, financed and also substantial participation of other railway companies, but also private a locomotive Dunrobin, rose and they also drove himself and a saloon car to go for a ride its guests. This included Queen Victoria. At the opening of his own railroad, the Duke of Sutherland 's Railway, were the then Prince of Wales Prince Edward and his wife Alexandra was invited and came.
Swell
- David McConnell: Rails to Wick & Thurso. Dornoch Press, Dornoch, o.J. [ before 1990 ], ISBN 0-9513358-7-1.