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George Agar Ellis* was less charitable, dismissing Harriet as ‘foolish in conversation and uncultivated to a degree rarely to be met with’, whereas Leveson Gower showed ‘talent in conversation’ but ‘wants character and above all common sense’.3 He had briefly embarked on an army career, but was returned at a by-election for Bletchingley in February 1822 on Portland’s interest ...
Granville William (2 Oct. 1816 - 1833) Hon. Edward Frederick (3 May 1819 - 30 May 1907) Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville with his wife Harriet and their children. Prior to marrying Lady Harriet Cavendish in 1809, Granville was the lover of Lady Harriet's maternal aunt, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, née Lady Henrietta ...
Howard. Sutherland Leveson Gower. (Windsor and Eton Express 31 Oct 1868, page 3): The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland.--. On Tuesday morning, at 2 o'clock, died Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Duchess Dowager of Sutherland, and Countess of Cromarty in her own right, whose name will long be held in affectionate remembrance by all classes of people.
Leveson came in unopposed for Staffordshire in March 1799 in the place of his half-brother Lord Gower, who took office with a barony. Canning hoped to obtain a place for him at the Admiralty before long or, if he was sent abroad, to take him with him, but Leveson had his own notion of seeing active service. He had long been dissatisfied with his militia colonelcy which precluded foreign ...
Leveson-Gower was made Duke of Sutherland in January 1833 and he died on 19 July 1833. The Duke and Duchess (who died on 29 January 1839) had two sons and two daughters. The eldest son George Granville (1786-1861), 2nd Duke of Sutherland married Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana (d. 1868), daughter of George, 6th Earl of Carlisle. She was a close ...
Lady Harriet Howard (1806 – 1868), daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and Lady Georgiana Cavendish. She married George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland in 1823.
