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GOWER, HON. BAPTIST LEVESON, brother of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) May 1717; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 22 Apr 1720; MP Newcastle under Lyme 1727-61; a Commissioner of Trade and Foreign Plantations 7 May 1745 – Nov 1746 (or Jun 1749 : check); d. unm. 4 Mar 1782.

GOWER, GEORGE GRANVILLE LEVESON, 1ST DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, eldest son of Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv), and his first wife; b. 9 Jan 1758; styled Viscount Trentham 1758-86, Earl Gower 1786-1803; adm. 5 Dec 1767; left 1774; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 May 1775; MA 1777; MP Newcastle under Lyme 26 Jan 1779-84, Staffordshire 15 May 1787 – 25 Feb 1799; travelling in Norther Europe 1781, Italy 1786-7; Privy Councillor 28 May 1790; Ambassador to Paris 11 Jun 1790 – Sep 1792; summoned to House of Lords as Baron Gower 25 Feb 1799; Joint Postmaster-General 27 Feb 1799 – Mar 1801; succ. father as 2nd Marquis of Stafford 26 Oct 1803; one of the leaders in the attack on the Addington administration 1804; he and his family had been consistent supporters of Pitt, but after Pitt’s death he generally acted with the Whigs; KG 22 Mar 1806; a supporter of Roman Catholic Emancipation and of the Reform Bill of 1832; cr. Duke of Sutherland 14 Jan 1833; possessed great wealth and extensive landed estates; between 1812 and 1832 he had 450 miles of roads and 134 bridges built on his estates in Sutherlandshire, brought to him by marriage in 1786; inherited estates of his uncle, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1803; purchased Stafford House, London 1827; Lord Lieut. Sutherlandshire 1794-1831, also Staffordshire 21 Oct 1799 – 6 Jun 1801 (DL Staffordshire 1786); member, Society of Dilettanti 1815; m. 4 Sep 1785 Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland (S), only child and heiress of William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland (S); d. 19 Jul 1833. DNB.

GOWER, GRANVILLE LEVESON, 1ST MARQUIS OF STAFFORD, third son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv), and his first wife; b. 4 Aug 1721; adm. Sep 1731; KS 1736; left 1740; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Apr 1740; MP Bishops Castle 6 Dec 1744-7, Westminster 1747-54, Lichfield 15 Apr – 25 Dec 1754; a Lord of the Admiralty 18 Nov 1749 – Jun 1751; styled Viscount Trentham 1746-54; succ. father as 2nd Earl Gower 25 Dec 1754; Lord Lieut., Staffordshire 22 Jan 1755 – Oct 1799; Lord Privy Seal 22 Nov 1755 – Jun 1757; Privy Councillor 22 Dec 1755; Master of the Horse 1 Jul 1757 – Nov 1760; Master of the Great Wardrobe 27 Nov 1760 – Apr 1763; Lord Chamberlain Apr 1763 – Jul 1765; Lord President of the Council 23 Dec 1767 – Nov 1779, 19 Dec 1783 – Nov 1784; KG 11 Feb 1771; Lord Privy Seal 24 Nov 1784 – Jul 1794; cr. Marquis of Stafford 1 Mar 1786; FSA 29 Apr 1784; a Busby Trustee from 27 Mar 1770; m. 1st, 23 Dec 1744 Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Fazakerly, Prescot, Lancs.; m. 2nd, 28 Mar 1748 Lady Louisa Egerton, eldest dau. of Scroope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater; m. 3rd, 25 May 1768 Lady Susannah Stewart, second dau. of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway (S); d. 26 Oct 1803. DNB.

GOWER, JOHN LEVESON, 1st EARL GOWER, eldest son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Baron Gower PC, Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster, and Lady Catherine Manners, eldest dau. of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland PC; b. 10 Aug 1694; at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1751); succ. father as 2nd Baron Gower 31 Aug 1709; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Feb 1709/10; DCL 19 Aug 1732; Custos Rotulorum, Staffordshire, from 9 Jul 1742, Lord Lieut. from 23 July 1742; Lord Privy Seal 13 Jul 1742 – 10 Dec 1743, and from 27 Dec 1744; Privy Councillor 13 Jul 1742; Recorder of Lichfield 15 Sep 1743; raised 77th Foot on outbreak of Jacobite rebellion, acting as its Col. 4 Oct 1745 until regiment’s disbandment 17 Jun 1746; cr. Earl Gower 8 Jul 1746; on five occasions one of the Lord Justices during King George II’s absence abroad; m. 1st, 13 Mar 1711/2 Lady Evelyn Pierrepoint, third dau. of Evelyn Pierrepoint, 1st Duke of Kingston; m. 2nd, 31 Oct 1733 Penelope, widow of Sir Henry Atkins, Bart., and dau. of Sir John Stonhouse, Bart., MP; m. 3rd, Mary, widow of Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold, and fourth dau. of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet; d. 25 Dec 1754. DNB.

GOWER, HON. JOHN LEVESON, eldest son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv), and his first wife; b. 27 Nov 1712; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1721/2; d. 15 Jul 1723.

GOWER, HON. RICHARD LEVESON, fourth son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv), and his first wife; b. 30 Apr 1726; adm. Sep 1735 (Edwards'); KS (Capt. ) 1739; Capt. of the School 1743; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1744, matr. 28 May 1744, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1744 – void 30 Jun 1750; MP Lichfield from 1747; joint Secretary with Edward Wortley Montagu (qv) to Plenipotentiaries at Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748; Under-Secretary of State 1749-51; d. unm. 19 Oct 1753.

GOWER, HON. WILLIAM LEVESON, second son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv), and his first wife; bapt. St. Anne, Soho 20 Mar 1715/6; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1727; left 1733; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Apr 1733; d. unm. 14 Apr 1739 [or 1740, check].

GOWLAND, RALPH SKINNER, son of Ralph Gowland MP, Eppleton, co. Durham, and Ann, dau. of John Darby, Foots Cray, Kent; b. 6 May 1758; adm. 19 Jun 1770; left Whitsun 1775; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Nov 1775; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 11 Dec 1775, but did not matr.; of Durham; m. 3 Jan 1805 Emily, dau. of William Smith; d. at Caen, France 10 Nov 1821 [but will proved PCC 27 Oct 1828 (sic)]

Grace, Edward Nathaniel, son of Edward Nathaniel Grace FSI, of Eastbourne, and Helen Lemprière, d. of John Henry Deane, med. practitioner, of Eastbourne; b. 6 Dec. 1914; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left Dec. 1933; 6 Bn Gordon Highlanders 1940-5 (Maj.), wounded (Anzio beach­head) Feb. 1944, MC June 1944; adm. a solicitor May 1946; sec. Faculty of Music McGill Univ., Canada, 1947-9; solicitor Brit. Transport Legal Service 1950-; HM Coroner W. district of E. Sussex 1977-88; m. Sept. 1946 Ivy Lavinia, d. of Thomas Danskin Henderson of Newcastle-on­-Tyne; d. 13 Jan. 2011.