The Duke of Sutherland and his Son, George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892)
The letter above was written to the second Duke and Duchess of Sutherland by Alderman Samuel Wilson in 1838. Wilson wrote to the Duke to report an incident involving his young son, George Granville William ...
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 ...
The Duke of Sutherland and Patronage of the Arts
Owing to their prestigious public status and their variety of social connections, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland were often asked to serve as patrons to musicians and artists.
A letter from Princess ...
The Duke of Sutherland and Staffordshire Hospitals
The Sutherland Papers contain a number of documents relating to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), the second Marquis of Stafford, was patron of the hospital ...
The Duke of Sutherland and Thomas Grenville
Amongst the bundles of letters received by the second Duke and Duchess of Sutherland is a letter from Thomas Grenville, dated 31st December 1844. Grenville had been a close associate of George Granville ...
The Duke of Sutherland in Public: Politics & Patronage
The Duke and the British Museum
Owing to his prestigious social position, the second Duke of Sutherland acquired many public responsibilities, as an influential landowner and as a patron of national ...
The Farm House at West Hill, 1824
The West Hill estate included a Farm House and extensive agricultural lands. The Inventory lists a Farm House which contained two bedrooms, a washhouse, a kitchen and a scullery. Aside from the Farm House ...
The Fitzherbert Family and Land in Swynnerton
The document above is a conveyance of freehold estates in Swynnerton made in 1843. The conveyance was for land owned by 'Thomas Fitzherbert of Swinnerton' and the Duke of Sutherland in Shelton under Hareley ...
The Foxley Charity in Trentham, 1670
In her will, made in 1670, Lady Katherine Leveson, the wife of Sir Richard Leveson (1698-1661), established the Foxley Charity. This charity provided money for the maintenance of widows and poor children ...
The Gardeners at West Hill, 1824
West Hill’s extensive lands included a productive garden where vegetables and fruit were grown. The Inventory lists a ‘Flower Gardeners House’ which appears to have had one living room and an adjoining ...
The Gold Edged Letter by John Burston and Joyce Wilson
John and Joyce from the North Staffordshire Mining History Group were intrigued by a gold edged letter which they discovered amongst mining documents in the Sutherland Papers. Their article 'The Gold ...
The 'Groom of the Chambers' Room, West Hill, 1824
Adjoining the Upper White Dressing Room at West Hill was the 'Groom of the Chambers' Room. Like many of the rooms on the second floor, this room featured ‘Holland Roller’ window blinds and a number of ...
The Hartshorne Inn, Lichfield
By the eighteenth century Lichfield had a large number of public houses, with eighty innkeepers being recorded trading in the town in 1732. The public houses served travellers and also provided accommodation ...
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 ...
The Housemaid’s Room, West Hill, 1824
The Housemaid and Butler at West Hill were housed on the basement floor of the mansion house. The inventory of furniture in the Housemaid’s Room includes two ‘copper tea kettles’, a mahogany chair, a ...
The Large Upper White Bedchamber, West Hill, 1824
One of the most extravagantly decorated rooms on the second floor of West Hill was the Large Upper White Bedchamber.
Amongst the more lavish items which the room contained was ‘a Capital 5ft6 Fourpost ...
The Leveson-Gower family's Yachts
The Leveson-Gower family owned a number of yachts from the late 1840s onwards, including yachts called the Ondine and the Catania which they took on many foreign voyages and a new yacht which they were ...
The Lodge Porter's Book, 1810-1811
There are hundreds of documents in the Sutherland Papers that tell us about the important philanthropic role of the Leveson-Gower family in Staffordshire. Amongst gifts of land for public use and records ...