Granville Leveson- Gower, first marquess of Stafford

(1721-1803)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gower, Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl, 1721-1803 NRA: Gower Granville Leveson- (1721-1803) 1st Marquess of Stafford DNB: Gower, Granville Leveson-, first marquess of Stafford (1721-1803), politician and landowner LBT ID: LdStaff1 VIAF ID: 14333879 LOC ID: no91014967	B/BAP: 1721-08-04 DIED: 1803-10-26
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The son of John Leveson-Gower, first Earl Gower (d. 1754), he was educated Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford and was MP for Bishop's Castle (1744-47), Westminster (1747-54), and Lichfield (1754) aligned with the Duke of Bedford
REFERENCES TO Granville Leveson- Gower, first marquess of Stafford: Duchess of Beaufort to Lady Hollad, 8 July 1813 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ n1