Estate at Blakelow in the Parishes of Swynnerton and Stone
The nineteenth century plan above shows land at Blakelow in the Parishes of Swynnerton and Stone which belonged to 'the Feoffees of Old Swinford Hospital'.
The plan names the people who owned land ...
Expenditure on Stafford House
The document above is a ‘Statement of Payments & Estimate for Stafford House’ which was made in November 1837. The document tells us about the people and money involved in the completion of Stafford House ...
Expenditure on the State Rooms at Stafford House
The document above is entitled ‘Statement of Payments on Account of the Estimate of £50,000 to finish Stafford House State Rooms from 1st January 1834 to August 1837’. The document provides details about ...
From Melrose Hall to West Hill, 1824
The Sutherland Collection includes the ‘particulars and conditions of sale’ for ‘that distinguished freehold estate’ called ‘Melrose Hall’. Melrose Hall was situated at West Hill, Wandsworth, ‘only six ...
From York to Stafford: Negotiating the Lease of York House
Work began on Stafford House in 1825 when the Duke of York commissioned a property which he intended to call York House. However, when the Duke of York died in 1827, the freehold lease of the property ...
George Devey (1820-1886)
George Devey is perhaps a less well-known architect when he is considered alongside men like Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860). However, Devey was an influential architect of domestic buildings during 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 ...
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 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, ...
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: Pottery, Paintings and Books
Many documents in the Sutherland Papers relate to the money spent by the Leveson-Gower family on purchases for themselves and their properties.
A particularly ornate document amongst these is an account ...
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. ...
George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, third Duke of Sutherland (1828-1892)
Born on the 19th December 1828, George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower succeeded his father George Granville Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) as the third Duke of Sutherland in 1861.
The third ...
George Stephenson and the Development of Railway Schemes in 1824
Mr. Fenton wrote to James Loch with information about the railways at the end of August 1824. Fenton writes that the Prospectus for ‘the Birmingham Railway…is not yet published’. He adds that the reason ...
George Stephenson: Success at the Rainhill Trials and Competing Railway Interests, 1829
As well as the competition which new railways would bring to the canals, as an investor in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, the Marquis of Stafford faced competition from other railway companies ...
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 ...
Ground and Chamber Plan of the Sutherland Cottage, Tittensor
The image above shows the ground and chamber plan of the Sutherland Cottage in Tittensor.
The ground plan shows many of the facilities which featured in the cottage, including a large kitchen which ...
Hanford School, 1889
During the late 1880s George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), the third Duke of Sutherland, was involved in the development of Hanford School. The Duke donated land for the expansion ...