George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2d Duke of Sutherland (1786–1861)

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.

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Complete peerage

Modern English biography.

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