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3 giorni fa · George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower, who was the third Duke's nephew, became Marquis of Stafford in 1803, shortly after his uncle's death. He carried on the third Duke's work of restoration at Cleveland House and had a new gallery built, designed by Charles Heathcote Tatham, to accommodate his own as well as his uncle's pictures.
1 giu 2024 · George was the illegitimate son of Granville Leveson-Gower, (1773-1846), 1st Earl Granville and his mistress Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, Countess of Bessborough. [2]: Wilhelm, Freiherr von Heimrod, 1775-1811, an illegitimate son of Wilhelm II, Elector of Hesse and Charlotte Buissinc.
5 giorni fa · The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom . Oliver Dowden has been chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 25 October 2022.
3 giorni fa · From the late 18th century to the early 19th Earl Gower & Co. and its successors converted the woodland piecemeal to pits and works. Company housing was put up next to the scattered undertakings (fn. 66) and Donnington Wood (as the whole development was known) therefore had no natural focus.
18 mag 2024 · George Granville Leveson-Gower, later duke of Sutherland, for instance, was the catalyst for notorious evictions that took place from about 1810 to 1820. Advised that his interior lands were best suited for sheep raising and were little fit for human habitation, he evicted thousands of families, burning their cottages and ...
4 giorni fa · Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Viscount Granville PC: 1 May 1825: Civil division ... Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon, PC: 26 June 1902:
4 giu 2024 · Leveson-Gower. Quarterly: 1 and 4, Barry of eight or and gules a cross paty sable , for Gower; 2 and 3, Azure three laurel leaves or , for Leveson. Titsey Place is beautifully placed in a park on the slopes of the Upper Green Sand, sheltered on the north by the Chalk Downs.
