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Sir John Leveson of Halling at Home

The Sutherland Papers include many wills and inventories detailing the property owned by the Leveson family during the sixteenth century. The inventories relating to Sir John Leveson (1555-1615) provide ...

Thomas Leveson (1532-1576)

Thomas Leveson was the son of Nicholas Leveson (c. 1490-1539) and his wife Denise (Dionysia) Bodley. Whereas his cousin Richard inherited his father James Leveson’s lands in Trentham and Lilleshall, Thomas ...

Richard Leveson (d. 1561)

Richard Leveson was the son of James Leveson (c.1500-1547)and his first wife Alice Wrotteseley (d. 1525), daughter of Sir Richard Wrottesley of Wrottesely. The Sutherland Papers includes Richard's original ...

Nicholas Leveson, (c.1490-1539)

Nicholas Leveson (c.1490-1539) was the son of Richard Leveson of Prestwood (d. 1503) and his wife Jane Bradbury who was from the same family as Sir Thomas Bradbury, Master Mercer and Lord Mayor of London. Nicholas ...

Treason and Conspiracy: Sir William Leveson Gower and the Duke of Monmouth

Amongst Sir William’s personal papers are a number of documents relating to an incident involving the Duke of Monmouth. These documents include depositions and letters relating to the questioning of witnesses ...

Sir William Leveson Gower (1636-1691)

Sir William Leveson-Gower was the son of Sir Thomas Gower (1605-1672). Following the death of his nephew Thomas, Sir William inherited the Gower family's Stittenham estates in Yorkshire which had been ...

Sir John Leveson, Baron Gower (1675-1709)

Sir John Leveson-Gower was the only son of Sir William Leveson Gower and Lady Jane Granville. Born in 1675, Sir John distinguished himself in political circles, being appointed in his father’s place as ...

Sir John Leveson-Gower and Mrs. Doncastle the Housekeeper

Mrs. Doncastle was Sir John’s housekeeper at Leicester House in Middlesex. A number of letters in Sir John’s papers demonstrate that Sir John and Mrs Doncastle shared a close relationship, Mrs. Doncastle ...

Sir John Leveson-Gower and the Jacobean Uprisings

Sir John was the Lord Privy Seal during the Jacobite Uprisings of the 1740s. His prominent political position and his loyalty to the King against the Jacobites earned him the title of Earl Gower in 1746. ...

Sir John Leveson-Gower, Estate Owner: Letters from Reverend George Plaxton (1647/8-1720), Chief Estate Agent

Sir John also received regular correspondence from Reverend George Plaxton, the Chief Agent on the Leveson-Gower estates. These letters refer again to estate business. However, unlike George Cookes’s ...

Sir John Leveson-Gower, Estate Owner: Letters from George Cookes

Many letters in Sir John’s papers relate to the management of the Leveson-Gower estates. Sir John’s papers include correspondence from various agents working on his Staffordshire and Shropshire estates, ...

Sir John Leveson-Gower 2nd Baron Gower of Stittenham and first Earl Gower (1694-1754)

Sir John Leveson-Gower was born on 9th August 1694, the eldest son of Sir John Leveson-Gower (1675-1709), the first Baron Gower, and his wife Lady Katherine Manners (1675-1722). Sir John inherited extensive ...

Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower and 1st Marquis of Stafford (1721-1803)

Granville Leveson-Gower was born in August 1721, the son of John Leveson-Gower, first Earl Gower (1694-1754) and his first wife Lady Evelyn Pierrepont (1691-1727). Granville married three times. His second ...

Granville, Earl Gower and Canals: Navigable Waterways in the later Eighteenth Century

Throughout the second half of the eighteenth century, Granville Leveson-Gower was central to the development of navigable waterways. Enthusiastic about the economic development of Staffordshire and Shropshire, ...

Granville Leveson-Gower, Lord Lieutenant and the Staffordshire Militia

Many of Earl Gower’s papers as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire and High Steward of Stafford relate to his direction of the Staffordshire Militia. A printed document amongst these papers details the ...

George Granville Leveson-Gower and Art in the Sutherland Papers

Aside from his political life and his responsibilities as an estate owner, George Granville was a devoted art collector. Catalogues and inventories in the Sutherland Papers tell us that the first Duke ...

George Granville Leveson-Gower, the First Duke of Sutherland: Wealth & Property

George Granville, the first Duke of Sutherland was undoubtedly one of the wealthiest men in England at the time of his death in 1833. The owner of extensive estates and lavish properties such as Stafford ...

George Granville Leveson-Gower's Correspondence:

In 1790 George Granville Leveson-Gower was appointed to the diplomatic post of Ambassador to Paris. At the end of the eighteenth century, France was gripped with revolutionary fervour. Paris was a dangerous ...