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Gover, Charles Cecil, son of Charles Sydney Gover, of St. Marylebone, by Constance Helen Montgomery, daughter of George Anderson, of New York, U. S. A.; b. May 22, 1890; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1907; a civil engineer; managing director and subsequently chairman of a civil engineering and marine contracting company; served in France 1915-6; temp. Lieut. R.E. Aug. 30, 1915; severely wounded near Messines Aug. 30, 1916, and invalided home; Capt. Oct. 1, 1917; was transferred to the R.A.F. May 1918, and qualified as Aeroplane Pilot (Night Flying); returned to France in 1918; demob. as Hon. Capt. R.A.F. Feb. 1919; m. 1st Nov. 7, 1912, Maud Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Philipson, of Chelsea; 2nd 1929, Dorothy Mary, daughter of Henry Francis Dorey.

Gover, Patrick Montgomery, brother of Charles Cecil Gover (q.v.); b. July 8, 1904; adm. April 26, 1918 (H); left July 1921; an actor; d. Jan. 17, 1939

Gow, Charles Humphry, only son of the Rev. Henry Gow, of Hampstead, Unitarian Minister, by Edith, daughter of Dr. Charles Beard, of Liverpool; b. May 26, 1891; adm. May 4, 1905 (R); left July 1908; Emann. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1912; a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1912-5; Surgeon Probationer R. N. V. R. Aug. 8, 1914; served for eight months on the destroyer H. M. S. Laforey; returned to the Hospital and qualified as M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1915; joined the R. N. D. as temp. Surgeon July 19, 1915, and served in the Gallipoli Peninsula, at Salonika, and for the last eight months of his life on the western front; killed while attending to the wounded near Beaucourt-sur-Ancre Nov. 13, 1916; unm.

Gow, James Fitzjames Cuthbert, second son of the Rev. James Gow, LL. D., Head Master of Westminster School, by Gertrude Sydenham, daughter of G. P. Everett Green; b. Aug. 6, 1890; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1909, matric. Michaelmas 1909; played football (Assoc.) against Cambridge 1912; B.A. 1913; M.A. 1920; served in France in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. York and Lancaster Regt. (T. F.) Sept. 14, 1914; Lieut. Aug. 25; 1916; was in the employ of Cammell Laird & Co., Sheffield; m. June 19, 1919, Katherine, elder daughter of B. George Wood, of Sheffield, Yorks; d. on a voyage to America, April 1929.

Gow, John Alexander, son of John Ferguson Gow LDS and Mabel Emily Moss; b. 13 Aug. 1922; adm. Apr. 1936 (H); left Dec. 1939; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch. 1940-2, Roy. Dental Hosp. 1942-6, LDS RCS 1946; RAF 1948-57 (Sqdn Ldr); practised as dental surgeon in Hythe; Kent; commu­nity dental officer Gloucs. Area Health Authority, retd 1979; Open Univ., BA 1978; m. 22 Sept. 1954 Kathleen Margaret, d. of Francis Reilly, veterinary surgeon.

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.