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Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st 1773 – 8 January 1846), styled Lord Granville Leveson-Gower from
1786 to 1815 and Viscount Granville from 1815 to 1833, was diplomat from the Leveson-Gower family. Granville
was the second son and youngest child of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford from
his marriage to Lady Susanna
Stewart, daughter of Alexander
Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway. His elder, paternal 1st Duke of Sutherland. Granville was educated at Dr.
Kyle's school at Hammersmith, and then privately by the
Revd. John Chappel Woodhouse. He matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, in
April 1789 but never took a degree. Nevertheless, ten years later, in 1799, the
honorary degree of DCL was conferred
upon him.
Granville
began his career as a member of the House of Commons, representing Lichfield from 1795 to 1799, and Staffordshire for the next sixteen years. Granville
served as British ambassador to Russia (10 August 1804 – 28 November 1805 and
1806–1807) and France (1824–1828, 1830[2]–1835, 1835–1841). In 1815 he was raised
to the peerage as Viscount Granville of Stone Park in the
County of Stafford.[3] In 1833 during his second stint as
ambassador to France, he was created Earl Granville and
also Baron Leveson of Stone Park in the County of Stafford. A
recent historian says that Granville "was a drab figure, the original
stuffed-shirt – starch outside, sawdust married Lady Harriet
Cavendish (1785–1862), daughter of William
Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and Lady
Georgiana Spencer, in 1809. They had two sons and two daughters.
Their eldest son, Granville
Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, became a distinguished
politician. Their second son the Hon. Frederick
Leveson-Gower was also a politician. Their daughter Lady
Georgiana married Alexander Fullerton. She was a biographer, novelist and great
philanthropist. Lord Granville died in January 1846, aged 72. The Countess
Granville died in November 1862, aged 77.[7] A younger son William died in 1833.
Lord
Granville, prior to marrying Lady Harriet Cavendish, was the lover of Lady
Harriet's maternal aunt, Henrietta Ponsonby,
Countess of Bessborough, née Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, with
whom he fathered two illegitimate children: Harriette
Stewart and George Stewart. For seventeen years she "loved
to idolatry" this younger man,[9] but then, she understood that he
must marry in order to further his career and assure his posterity, and so she
actively collaborated in the arrangements for his wedding to Harriet (known in
the family as "Harry-O"), who was understandably reluctant to marry
her aunt's lover.