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Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, GCB, PC (12 October 1773 – 8 January 1846), styled Lord Granville Leveson-Gower from 1786 to 1815 and The Viscount Granville from 1815 to 1833, was a British Whig statesman and diplomat from the Leveson-Gower family . Background and education.
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, by Thomas Lawrence. The second creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1833 when the noted diplomat Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Viscount Granville, was made Earl Granville and Baron Leveson, of Stone Park in the County of Stafford.
Biografía. Nacido en Londres, sus padres fueron Granville Leveson-Gower, 1. er conde Granville, y lady Harriet Cavendish. Era nieto de William Cavendish, duque de Devonshire y de Georgiana Cavendish, ambos destacados miembros de los liberales. Se educó en el Eton College y en el Christ Church de Oxford .
In Gladstone’s first Government (1868-74), Granville was Colonial Secretary. He ensured that the Crown took over the Canadian territories of the Hudson’s Bay Company and persuaded New Zealand and Canada to assume responsibility for their own defence costs.
Profile. Born: 1773. Died: 1846. Gender: Male. Associated archives. 4 results. Granville, Brighton, to [Keightley] Item LAW/5/479. W. Huskisson, Paris, to [Thomas Lawrence] Item LAW/4/386. Lord Granville, British Embassy, Paris, to Sir Thomas Lawrence. Item LAW/4/361.
British, 1769–1830. Oil on canvas. 92 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (235 x 130.8 cm) The imposing portrait Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, later 1st Earl Granville displays Sir Thomas Lawrence’s mastery of design and handling of paint.
Title: Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville and predecessors and successors: Papers. Description: Transferred to the British Library (reference: Add MS 89317). The papers consist mainly of...
