George Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland

Politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts.

History of Parliament states that ‘Canning found it typical of him that, although in private he probably favoured the abolition of the slave trade, Gower absented himself from debate on the subject, out of deference to his father’s hostile views’. (R. G. Thorne,‘LEVESON GOWER, George Granville I, Earl Gower (1758-1833), of Trentham, Staffs.’, in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1820-1832, <https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/leveson-gower-george-i-granville-1758-1833> accessed 6 August 2021.)

No known connections with abolition.

Donor: presented in 1828: NG46.

J. Brooke, 'LEVESON GOWER, George Granville, Visct, Trentham (1758-1833)', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1754-1790, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/leveson-gower-george-granville-1758-1833
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E. Richards, 'Gower, George Granville Leveson-, first duke of Sutherland', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/16539
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R. G. Thorne, 'LEVESON GOWER, George Granville I, Earl Gower (1758-1833), of Trentham, Staffs.', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1790-1820, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/leveson-gower-george-i-granville-1758-1833
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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P. Ward-Jackson, 'Leveson-Gower family (1) George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T050710
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