Gower, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl

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Gower, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl
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(1758 - 1833), 1st surv. s. of 2nd E. Gower (cr. M. of Stafford 1786); sty. Vct. Trentham - 1786, E. Gower 1786 - 1803 when suc. fa. as 2nd M.; educ. Westminster and Ch.Ch. Oxf. 1775; MP 1779 - 84, 1787 - 99; m. 1785 Elizabeth Sutherland, suo jure Cts. of Sutherland [S]; amb. Paris 1790 - 2; suc. 1803 to the estates of his uncle, 3rd D. of Bridgewater; cr. D. of Sutherland 1833; KG 1806.


1786 - 7 Naples (by Jan. 1787)


A delicate and studious child, Lord Gower had been educated in Auxerre and, after leaving Oxford, had travelled in northern Europe in 1781. He came to Italy in 1786 (DNB) with his wife, the Countess of Sutherland, and they were listed in Naples in January 1787.1 He was presumably back in England in May 1787 when he was returned to Parliament.


1. World Fashionable Advertiser, 5 Feb. 1787.