John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower PC (7 January 1675 – 31 August 1709) was a member of the
Leveson-Gower family
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. He was the son of
Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet
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Born William Gower, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet and Frances, daughter and coheir of John Le ...
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
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Tory
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MP for
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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, 1692–1703. He was created Baron Gower of Sittenham in the County of York on 16 March 1703. He was made member of the
Privy Council
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from 1702 to 1707, and he was appointed
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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from 1702 to 1706. He was Commissioner of the Union in 1706. He died on 31 August 1709 in
Belvoir Castle
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, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Family
John married Lady Catherine Manners (1675–1722), daughter of
John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland
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and his third wife Catherine Noel, in September 1692. They had six children:
*
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower
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(1694–1754), who married and had issue from: firstly, Lady Evelyn Pierrepont, daughter of
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
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Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet
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Stafford
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from 1720 to 1754. He married Anne Grosvenor, daughter of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, and had a daughter, Catherine.
*Thomas Leveson-Gower, born 6 May 1699, Trentham, Staffordshire, died 12 August 1727, London, unmarried, MP for
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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from 1720 until his death.
*Baptist Leveson-Gower born 1701, died unmarried 4 August 1782, MP for
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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from 1727 to 1761.
*Katherine Leveson-Gower, died 20 April 1712, London, buried 1 May 1712, Lilleshall.
*Jane Leveson-Gower (c. 1704 – 10 June 1726), married 5 January 1718/19, John Proby, who died 1760 and had issue,
John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort
John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort KB PC (25 November 1720 – 18 October 1772) was a British Whig politician.
Life
He was the son of John Proby, of Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire, and his wife Jane, daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gow ...
Gower
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