Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2d Earl Granville (1815–91)

Politician and diplomat. MP for Morpeth, 1837–40; for Lichfield, 1841–6. Under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1840–1. Became second Earl Granville, 1846. Paymaster-general, 1847–52; vice-president, Board of Trade, 1848–51. Lord president of the council, 1855–8 and 1860–6. Chancellor of the University of London, 1856–71. Colonial secretary, 1868–70; foreign secretary, 1870–4, 1880–5. FRS 1853.