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George Granville Leveson-Gower's Correspondence: Letters from Royals and Politicians

George Granville Leveson-Gower and his wife Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland (known as Lord and Lady Stafford) held an extremely prominent and influential position in nineteenth century society. ...

Family Matters: George Granville Leveson-Gower and his Father Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford (1721-1803)

Amongst George Granville Leveson-Gower's personal papers is a letter from his father, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford (1721-1803). The letter congratulates George Granville on his marriage ...

George Granville Leveson-Gower and English Politics: War with France

From 1798 onwards George Granville Leveson-Gower served in the House of Lords as Baron Gower of Stittenham. Following his appointment as Ambassador to Paris, in 1799 he became the Joint Postmaster-General, ...

Engraver's Copper Plate of the Trentham Office

The image above shows the copper plate which was used by the Trentham Estate Office to print notices of receipt on behalf of George Granville Leveson-Gower, first Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833). The ...

George Granville Leveson-Gower & Contemporary Art

'A Catalogue of Pictures at Trentham' made in 1825 provides a room by room inventory of the paintings collected by George Granville Leveson-Gower and displayed at his family’s seat in Staffordshire. The ...

Wolverhampton Life in the Sutherland Papers

A number of letters in the Sutherland Papers concern tenants who leased land and property on the Leveson-Gower family’s estate in Wolverhampton. Their letters to the family’s estate agents reflect issues ...

Wolverhampton and the Arrival of the Railways

The Sutherland Papers include a wide variety of documents relating to Wolverhampton’s railway history during the early nineteenth century. Sketch maps of the projected Birmingham to Liverpool railway ...

The Collegiate Church of St. Peter in the Sutherland Papers: The Church and the Leveson family in the Fifteenth Century

The Leveson family’s history is closely associated with the history of St. Peter’s Church in Wolverhampton. R. F. Wisker refers to an entry in the Calendar Patent Rolls stating that heads of the Leveson ...

Seventeenth Century Shops in Wolverhampton

The Sutherland Papers contain many documents relating to land and property acquisition from as early as the fourteenth century. Amongst these is an intriguing document from 1615 relating to a butcher's ...

Schooling in Wolverhampton through the Ages

Educational provision in Wolverhampton was greatly improved by Sir Stephen Jenyns in the early sixteenth century. Born in Wolverhampton, Sir Stephen was a very important Merchant of the Staple who rose ...

Read All About It: The Wolverhampton Chronicle 1848-1849

Printed and published by the proprietors, Thomas Wood and W. B. Upcott, 7 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the Wolverhampton Chronicle and General Advertiser for Staffordshire and the Midland Counties featured ...

John Leveson of London & Wolverhampton

The Sutherland Papers contain many rentals relating to the lands owned by the Leveson family. One particularly intriguing rental dates back to 1545-50 and details the lands owned by John Leveson of London ...

James Leveson & Wolverhampton

James Leveson was the son of Richard Leveson of Prestwood. His brother Nicholas was a successful wool merchant who moved from Wolverhampton to London and became a Merchant of the Staple. James shared ...

The History of Local Buildings: Shops on Darlington & North Street, Wolverhampton

The Sutherland Papers contain many plans relating to lands in Wolverhampton. These include a particularly interesting plan from 1838 which shows a number of buildings which were used as shops at the junction ...

Ovens, Kilns and Cost: Objections to the Court House Site

Mr. Dalton, another Assistant Secretary from the Local Government Board wrote to George Kent informing him that considering the ‘scientific evidence’ of ‘subsidence’ on the Stone Road site that the Board ...

The Manor of Longton and the Court Baron of Obadiah Lane

The Manor of Longton was owned by a number of wealthy Landowners between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. J. H. Y. Briggs writes about the Foley family who were ironmasters from Birmingham. The ...

The Duke of Sutherland and Municial Buildings in Longton: Town Planning in the late Nineteenth Century

In April 1893 Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1913), the fourth Duke of Sutherland, offered the Borough of Longton some land on which the Town Council could erect new municipal buildings. A number ...

Proposals for a Railway at Lane End

In March 1815 James Loch, the Duke of Sutherland's Chief Estate Agent, wrote to estate agent Mr. Burgess about the 'projected railway' at Lane End. He asked Burgess to investigate the proposal, especially ...