John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, PC was a British Tory politician who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1742 to 1743 and again from 1744 to 1754. Leveson-Gower also served in the Parliament of Great B
Portrait attributed to Thomas Hudson, c. 1750
A portrait of 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 Whig politician from the Leveson-Gower fam
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower
…during the general election sapped a significant portion of Leveson-Gower's financial estate. In June 1751, Leveson-Gower refused to join his third son Granville (by now a member of parliament) and the 4th Duke of Bedford in resigning from their positions as a show of support to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich…
Lodge at Lilleshall Abbey, home of the Leveson family after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Trentham Hall, 1880
The Gower Family: The Children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower, painting by George Romney. The woman on the right, holding a tambourine, is Lady Anne, Lord Gower’s daughter by his second wife. The other children are his son and daughters from his third marriage: (left to right) Lady Georgina, Lady Susan, the Hon. Granville and Lady Charlotte Sophia.