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 | |