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5 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.
2 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.
1 giorno fa · Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville (1815–1891) 21 June 1854 30 January 1855 — Whig vacant: February 1855 March 1855 Dudley Ryder 2nd Earl of Harrowby (1798–1882) 31 March 1855 7 December 1855 — — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston: Matthew Talbot Baines MP for Leeds (1799–1860) 7 December 1855 21 February 1858 ...
5 giorni fa · John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath PC (29 August 1628 – 22 August 1701) was an English landowner who served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War and was rewarded for his services after the 1660 Stuart Restoration with a title and various appointments.
4 giorni fa · 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.
5 giorni fa · The aunts and coheiresses of the last Earl of Bath married Sir William Leveson Gower, Bart., ancestor of the Marquis of Stafford, and Sir George Carteret, afterwards Lord Carteret, of Hawnes. The younger of the coheiresses was created Countess Granville.
3 giorni fa · Sir John died in 1801 and his estates passed to his only child Catherine, who married William Leveson-Gower, in whose family the manor still remains. A court leet was appurtenant to this manor.
