George Gower (c. 1540–1596) was an English portrait painter who became Serjeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth I in 1581. Very little is known about his early...
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Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, KG PC FRS (11 May 1815 – 31 March 1891), styled Lord Leveson until 1846, was a British Liberal statesman...
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Duke of Sutherland (redirect from Baron Gower of Sittenham)
William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the dukes...
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of Devonshire. On 18 May 1823, she married her cousin George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower (1786–1861), who had been elected MP for St Mawes, Cornwall...
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two portraits were formerly attributed to Elizabeth's Serjeant Painter George Gower, but curators at the National Portrait Gallery now believe that all three...
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Hilliard was appointed her official limner, or miniaturist and goldsmith. George Gower, a fashionable court portraitist created Serjeant Painter in 1581, was...
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George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (8 August 1786 – 27 February 1861), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower...
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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower may refer to: George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786–1861), British peer George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower...
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Evelyn Gower (1825–1869), who married the 12th Lord Blantyre; Lady Caroline Gower (1827–1887), who married the 4th Duke of Leinster; George Gower (1828–1892)...
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George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, KG, FRS (19 December 1828 – 22 September 1892), styled Viscount Trentham until...
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George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC (9 January 1758 – 19 July 1833), known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower...
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since the succession of George I of Great Britain, joining the administration of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville in 1742. Gower was educated at Westminster...
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Andrew Gower (born 8 November 1989) is an English actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Cutler in Being Human and his turn as Prince Charles...
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Ghirlandaio Giuliano da Sangallo Giorgione Giotto di Bondone Jean Goujon George Gower Benozzo Gozzoli El Greco Matthias Grünewald Juan de Herrera Nicholas...
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Gower (Welsh: Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gŵyr) is in South West Wales and is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales...
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Jon Andre Gower (born April 27, 1973) is an American television and film actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, Gower began his career at the age of five...
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Gower Street is a two-way street in Bloomsbury, central London, running from Euston Road at the north to Montague Place in the south. The street continues...
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Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland VA (née Hay-Mackenzie; 21 April 1829 – 25 November 1888), 1st Countess of Cromartie in her own right...
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peer and politician from the Leveson-Gower family. Sutherland was the eldest son of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland. He was born...
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Sir George Granville Leveson-Gower KBE (19 May 1858 – 18 July 1951), was a British civil servant and Liberal politician from the Leveson-Gower family....
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John Gower (/ˈɡaʊ.ər/; c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey...
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Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (born 10 September 1959) is a British peer, landowner, and artist. He was known as Lord Leveson...
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lady dressed in white. Anne's portrait was painted by a follower of George Gower, and is displayed at Hatfield House. Henry Carey and Anne Morgan's marriage...
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Leveson-Gower (/ˈljuːsən ˈɡɔːr/ LEW-sən GOR), also Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, is the name of a powerful British noble family. Over time, several members...
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Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is an oil painting by English painter George Gower dated 1579, and now in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library...
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John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, PC (10 August 1694 – 25 December 1754) was an English Tory politician and peer who twice served as Lord Privy Seal...
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rock band Cog George Gower (c. 1540–1596), English portrait painter H. D. G. Leveson Gower (1873–1954), English cricketer Henry Gower, fourteenth century...
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and his sister, Margaret, were put in the care of Dorset's half-brother, George Medley, the son of Dorset's mother, Margaret Wotton, by her first husband...
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, GCB, PC (12 October 1773 – 8 January 1846), styled Lord Granville Leveson-Gower from 1786 to 1815 and The...
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late 19th century the site at 140 Gower Street was occupied by a modest three-story building which was used by George J. W. Pitman, book publishers. Then...
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