Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, KG PC, known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British politician from the Leveson-Gower family. Sitting in the House of Lords, he spent a quarter of a century in the Cabinet.
Portrait by George Romney
Lodge at Lilleshall Abbey, home of the Leveson family after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Trentham Hall, 1880
Gower's Family (1772) by Angelica Kauffman
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, PC was an English Tory politician and peer who twice served as Lord Privy Seal from 1742 to 1743 and 1744 to 1754. Leveson-Gower also served in the Parliament of Great Britain, where he sat in the House of Lords as a leading member of the Tories, prior to switching his political affiliation and serving in various Whig-led government ministries until his death in 1754.
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower
A portrait of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford by George Romney c. 1790