Granville Leveson- Gower, first earl Granville

(1773-1846)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gower, Granville Leveson, Earl Granville, 1773-1846 NRA: Gower Granville Leveson- (1773-1846) 1st Earl Granville diplomat DNB: Gower, Granville Leveson-, first Earl Granville (1773-1846), diplomatist LBT ID: LdGranv1 VIAF ID: 25364007 LOC ID: no94035589	B/BAP: 1773-10-12 DIED: 1846-01-08
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English diplomat and ally of George Canning; he was ambassador to St Petersburg (1804-06, 1807) and ambassador to Paris (1824-1828). The Duchess of Devonshire described him as “the Adonis of his day.”