George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2d Duke of Sutherland
1786–1861
Politician. M.P. for St Mawes, Cornwall, 1808–12; Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1812–15; Staffordshire, 1815–20. Entered the House of Lords as Baron Gower, 1826. Succeeded to the dukedom, 1833. Lord lieutenant of Sutherland, 1831–61; of Shropshire, 1839–45.
Sources
Complete peerage
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Complete peerage: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. By George Edward Cokayne. Revised edition. Edited by Vicary Gibbs, et al. 13 vols. in 14. London: St Catherine Press. 1910–59.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
