1. Sir George Granville Leveson-Gower KBE, was a British civil servant and Liberal politician from the Leveson-Gower family.
13 Facts About George Leveson-Gower
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George Leveson-Gower held political office as Comptroller of the Household between 1892 and 1895 and later served as a Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1908 to 1924.
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George Leveson-Gower's mother was Lady Margaret Compton, daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton.
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George Leveson-Gower died shortly after his birth and his father never remarried.
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George Leveson-Gower was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
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George Leveson-Gower was private secretary to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone from 1880 to 1885.
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George Leveson-Gower then entered Parliament for Staffordshire North-West, and served under Gladstone as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from February to July 1886.
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George Leveson-Gower lost his seat in the 1886 general election but returned to the House of Commons when he was elected for Stoke-upon-Trent in an 1890 by-election, a seat he held until 1895.
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George Leveson-Gower was Comptroller of the Household from 1892 to 1895 under Gladstone and later Lord Rosebery.
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George Leveson-Gower later served as chairman of the Home Counties Liberal Federation from 1905 to 1908 and as a Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1908 to 1924.
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George Leveson-Gower was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in January 1921.
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George Leveson-Gower married the Honourable Adelaide Violet Cicely Monson, daughter of Debonnaire John Monson, 8th Baron Monson, in 1898.
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George Leveson-Gower died in London on 18 July 1951, aged 93.