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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.

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