Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford

Granville Leveson - Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, 2nd Earl Gower PC ( * August 4, 1721, † October 26, 1803 ), 1746-1754 also known as Viscount Trentham, was a British politician and peer.

Origin

He was a son of John Leveson - Gower, 1st Earl Gower and his wife Lady Evelyn Pierrepont. His maternal grandparents were Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston -upon -Hull and his first wife Lady Mary Feilding. Mary was a daughter of William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh and his wife Mary King. His father was a prominent Tory politician who came in 1742 under John Carteret's administration was the first Tory since the accession of George I to the parliament. Gower went to Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.

Political career

He was elected to Parliament in 1744. With the death of his elder brother in 1746, he was given the courtesy title Viscount Trentham until he inherited the title of Earl Gower in 1754 by his father. Stafford was a follower of his brother John Russell and thereby got several government tasks. After Bedford's death in 1771 was leader of the faction of the Gower Bedfordisten and as Lord President of the Council in the administration of Frederick North he had a critical attitude towards the American colonists.

Gower was frustrated by what he saw in the North American administration during the American Revolutionary War, and joined in 1779 by his cabinet seat back. As North resigned in March 1782, Gower was asked to form a ministry. He rejected the but from, and also rejected subsequent offers of both William Petty as well as the Fox - North coalition from taking part in the government. Instead, he became a major figure in the overthrow of the Fox - North Coalition, and was rewarded with the position as Lord President in the new administration of William Pitt the Younger. Although he soon exchanged with the office of Lord Privy Seal and withdrew gradually from politics, he remained until his retirement in 1794, Cabinet Minister. 1786, he was raised as a reward for his services to the Marquess of Stafford.

Family

Stafford married three times. He married in 1744 his first wife, Elizabeth Fazakerley, a daughter of Nicholas Fazakerley, in 1744. Elizabeth died of smallpox two years later. With her he had no children.

Stafford married in 1748 his second wife Lady Louisa, daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, in 1748 She died in 1761, with whom he had four children.. :

  • Lady Louisa Leveson - Gower († July 29, 1827 ) ∞ Sir Archibald Macdonald, 1st Baronet.
  • Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson - Gower († January 27, 1824 ) ∞ Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle was the mother of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle.
  • Lady Anne Leveson - Gower († November 16, 1832 ) ∞ the Right Reverend the Hon Edward Venables - Vernon -Harcourt, Archbishop of York.

In 1768 he married his third wife, Lady Susannah, a daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway. With her he had four children:

  • Lady Georgiana Augusta Leveson - Gower (* April 13, 1769, † March 24, 1806 ) ∞ William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans.
  • Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson - Gower ( born February 1771 and baptized 12 February 1771 in St. Martin-in -the-Fields, Westminster; † August 12, 1854 ) ∞ Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. She was the mother of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort and Lord Granville Somerset.
  • Lady Susan Leveson - Gower (* September 1772, baptized on September 15 1772 in Trentham, † May 26 1838 ) ∞ Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby.
  • Granville Leveson - Gower, 1st Earl Granville (* October 12, 1773, baptized on 5 November 1773 in Trentham, † January 8, 1846 ).

Lord Stafford died in October 1803 in Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, at an age of 82 years. His title was inherited by his eldest son from his second marriage, George, the Duke of Sutherland in 1833 was. The Marchioness of Stafford died in August 1805.

  • Lord Privy Seal (Great Britain)
  • Earl Gower
  • Marquess of Stafford
  • Knight of the Order of the Garter
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Politicians (18th century)
  • Politicians (19th Century )
  • Briton
  • Born in 1721
  • Died in 1803
  • Man
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